Brexit disruption has started even with a skimpy deal still theoretically possible.
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Brexit Chaos Was Entirely Predictable Because the World Works on Routine, and Brexit Breaks All the Routine Systems on Which Trade Has Relied
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:25 am | 28 Comments »
Medicare Blues
Medicare is not looking good.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Politics, Privatization, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:40 am | 133 Comments »
Why America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding Our Factories
Bringing factories back to the US would have been a good idea 20 years ago. Hard to see how we get there from here now.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:33 am | 54 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/8/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 87 Comments »
CalPERS Employees Beware: Don’t Fill Out Non-Confidential Survey Jiggered to Falsely Boost Executive Bonuses
Memo to CalPERS employees: If you see staff or vendors profiteering, call a lawyer. You could win a financial award and stop the abuse.
Topics: Banana republic, CalPERS, Legal, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:12 am | 15 Comments »
Links 12/8/2020
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 159 Comments »
Is It Time for a Debt Jubilee?
Steve Keen and Micheal Hudson provide a deep dive on a debt jubilee, and how it could be implemented in a Covid-afflicted economy.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit cards, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:20 am | 31 Comments »
Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets
How Google’s abuses allow the search giant to dominate online advertising, and what can be done about it.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Media watch, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:15 am | 8 Comments »
Millions of Tenants ‘Headed for Absolute Disaster’ After New Year, Owing Average of Nearly $6,000 in Rent and Utilities
The clock is ticking for underwater tenants, and Congressional relief looks set to be too little, too late.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Pandemic, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:51 am | 48 Comments »
R.I.P The University, b. 1088, d. 2020, of Covid
Opportunistic university administrators seize the opportunity presented by Covid to gut academic freedom and turn faculty into employees
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 pm | 55 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/7/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 152 Comments »
Demand for COVID Vaccines Expected to Get Heated — And Fast
Experts in ethics and immunization behavior say they expect attitudes toward vaccines to shift quickly from widespread hesitancy to urgent, even heated demand.
Topics: Health care, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 11:55 am | 37 Comments »
Links 12/7/2020
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 218 Comments »
Judge Slams Apollo for Making Investors Pay for Partner’s Bogus Personal Expenses; Clueless SEC Missed the Abuse, Maybe Because Paul Weiss Misled Them
A federal judge blasts Apollo for making bogus charges to its investors and by implication, law firm Paul Weiss, for whitewashing the abuse.
Topics: Legal, Politics, Private equity, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:55 am | 18 Comments »
Business and Related Restrictions Appear to Curb COVID-19 Fatality Growth, But Some Do Not
An examination of particularly Covid-containment strategies in terms of cost versus effectiveness.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:54 am | 17 Comments »


