What has New York done to lower its suicide rate?
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Among U.S. States, New York’s Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How’s That?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 32 Comments »
Links 12/11/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 151 Comments »
The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake
Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 58 Comments »
To Resolve the Economic & Environmental Crisis, Do Not Bank On the Private Sector
More political leaders are coming around to the idea of using government economic muscle to combat climate change. But will they act?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:10 am | 12 Comments »
No End for Drought as Sydney Disappears Into Smoke
Is toxic haze the new normal for Sydney?
Topics: Australia, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:22 am | 31 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/10/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: USMCA (NAFTA), Buttigieg, Sanders, Trump, Warren, articles of impeachment released, Horowitz report, Aramco, Away, SoftBank, McClatchy, private debt market, plant trees in square holes, orphaned oil wells, BECCs, water, surprise billing, MBAs, greivances, Volcker, artificial robot skin, exercise
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 121 Comments »
Payday Lenders Offering Installment Loans to Evade Regulations – But They May Be Even Worse
When is a payday loan still pretty much a payday loan? When it’s an installment loan with annual interest rates over 100%.
Topics: 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 9:55 am | 11 Comments »
Links 12/10/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 101 Comments »
Misunderstanding Volcker
A reappraisal of Volcker, who was more hostile to workers and less hard on financiers than the press would have you believe.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:40 am | 33 Comments »
A Window into European Versus US Management
Evidence keeps accumulating that American management is rotten.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:04 am | 46 Comments »
“Less-Lethal” Weapon Abuse in Chile
On the deliberately vicious use of supposedly use of less lethal weapons.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:30 am | 5 Comments »
Impeachment, the House as Prosecutor, and Justice
If we consider the House as a prosecutor, is the House acting as an ethical prosecutor should?
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 pm | 79 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, employment situation, banking, commodities, Tesla, United Airlines, the ozone layer, permafrost, ocean oxygen, Portuguese wildfires, Florida keys, groundwater, USC corruption, Uber, climate change and labor
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 113 Comments »
BBVA Compass Fails to Dispute, Much the Less Remedy, Retaliatory Swatting, Disclosure of Confidential Information, and Reckless Treatment of Elderly Customer
BBVA has not denied that an officer swatted an elderly woman on fabricated grounds as retaliation for documenting his reckless advice.
Topics: Banking industry, Legal, Payment system, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:57 am | 42 Comments »
The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business: The Reassurances Are Demonstrably False
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.
Topics: Banana republic, Brexit, Guest Post, Health care, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 9:55 am | 8 Comments »