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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Links 3/23/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 181 Comments »
The Ultimate Grenfell Betrayal: UK Government Leaves Victims of Cladding Crisis Holding the Bill
The costs fall on leaseholders, who are least able to pay and not remotely to blame for the crisis, while the government protects builders, developers and cladding manufacturers.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:41 am | 12 Comments »
End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
More on the vaccine atrocities perpetrated by Big Pharma, aided and abetted by first world countries.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 16 Comments »
Will Clean Energy Kickstart A New Resource War?
Why the transition to green energy is likely to be geopolitically destabilizing .
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:06 am | 40 Comments »
How the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik Played His Readers for Chumps on Outdoor Dining and Aerosols — Including Me
The New Yorker anatomizes outdoor dining, without telling readers how to dine safely.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 pm | 43 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 164 Comments »
The Ancient Roots of “Doing Nothing”: Is Idleness a Form Of Resistance — Or Just an Indulgence for the Lucky Few?
The ethics of idleness.
Topics: Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 12:06 pm | 64 Comments »
Links 3/22/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 162 Comments »
The Bullshit Economy Part 2: Payday Loans 2.0, aka Early Paycheck Apps
Payday loans suck. Giving them a new name does not make them suck less.
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Credit markets, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:39 am | 16 Comments »
Cabin Fever: Americans (of Means) Keen to Travel. How Many Will Play it Safe?
The travel genie is about to leave the bottle.
Topics: Banana republic, Economic fundamentals, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:54 am | 31 Comments »
Covid Is Airborne (on Airplanes)
Border controls and quarantine in the United States, as contrasted to Vietnam and Japan
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:55 pm | 49 Comments »
Links 3/21/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 145 Comments »
The End of Closed Democracy?
Corporate and financial capital still dominate, but politics no longer serves them alone, by putting the interests of the market first. Instead, power is having to listen to people everywhere.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 51 Comments »
Links 3/20/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 291 Comments »
New CDC Guidelines to Reopen Schools, Based on Outdated, Cherry-Picked, and Misinterpreted Data, Put Students, Teachers, and Communities at Risk
Pushing to reopen schools based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:47 am | 36 Comments »




