Recent Items
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Links 12/9/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 117 Comments »
Elizabeth Warren’s “Foreign Policy”
Yves here. I hate to seem unduly hard on Warren, but she has made having detailed and supposedly well informed policy positions here calling card. This post by Ilargi examines one she volunteered, as opposed to backed into by being questioned in an interview or a debate. By Raúl Ilargi Meijer. an editor at Automatic […]
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:23 am | 48 Comments »
Estuaries, Climate Change, and “Blue Carbon”
Estuaries defined, whether they are carbon sources or carbon sinks, and an excursion into the world of climate NGOs through “blue carbon.”
Topics: Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Investment management
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:55 pm | 32 Comments »
Links 12/8/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 244 Comments »
Using History to Understand Hidden Wealth in the UK
Between 1920 and 1992, English elites concealed 20-32% of their wealth. Accounting for hidden wealth eliminates one-third of the observed decline of top 10% wealth share over the past century.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
Links 12/7/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 259 Comments »
The Geography of EU Discontent
The EU’s flyover, meaning areas in economic decline, are also its hotbeds of discontent and anti-EU sentiment.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:17 am | 55 Comments »
Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
A takedown of the pharmaceutical industry’s assertion that it need to price gouge so it can invest in R&D. Profits go almost entirely to various forms of looting.
Topics: Banana republic, CEO compensation, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:43 am | 14 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/6/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, Bloomberg terminal gaffe, Harris, Sanders, Harry Reid, impeachment, Durham report a damp squib?, employment situation, electric vehicles, Apple, the startup Away, suburban buses, Sunrise Movement, care work, domesticated humans, the cortex
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 135 Comments »
US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow
A proposed provision in the so-called “NAFTA 2.0” to increase autoworker wages in Mexico is raising hackles south of the border.
Topics: Auto industry, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 35 Comments »
Links 12/6/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 235 Comments »
Coal Is Dead, But China Is Reviving It
Bad climate news: coal is far from over.
Topics: Banana republic, China, Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Global warming, Guest Post, India
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:36 am | 30 Comments »
Why Hospitals Never Have Enough Nurses: The Explanatory Power of “Prasad’s Law” of Wealth Concentration
Nurses, or more accurately, nurse staffing levels demonstrate a central bad incentive in American medicine.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:18 am | 57 Comments »
CalPERS Should Thank Us for Publicizing, and Therefore Undermining Their Repeated Efforts to Hand Private Equity Portfolio to BlackRock: BlackRock’s Mark Wiseman Fired for Affair With Subordinate, Leading to Suspension of New Investments from “Warren Buffett” Style Megafund
How we helped CalPERS, despite the fund’s concerted efforts, dodge a BlackRock bullet.
Topics: Banana republic, CalPERS, Investment management, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:49 am | 12 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/5/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: WTO dispute resolution, digital services, Huawei, 2000 v. 2019, Biden’s bus, Buttigieg, Iowa caucus, impeachment witness statements, VSAP, Wells Fargo, UPS, Google, private equity, corals, climate polling, health insurance, Maxwell’s equations, generationsd
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 153 Comments »