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Sunday, October 6, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/9/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 83 Comments »
Yellen and Biden Administration Incompetence: Bullying and Entitlement, Rather Than Making a Case, Here Regarding China Overproduction
Yellen made a complete hash of the question of Chinese overcapacity, a real problem unlikely to sort itself out nicely.
Topics: Auto industry, China, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:51 am | 96 Comments »
Links 4/9/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 189 Comments »
Diplomatic Blowback Begins in Latin America, As Ecuador Violates One of the Oldest Rules of International Law
As if by clockwork, diplomatic tensions intensify in Latin America as the US tries to reestablish its strategic stranglehold over the region.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 34 Comments »
Tilting at Windmills: Bernanke and Blanchard’s Obsession with the Wage-Price Spiral
The obsession of big-name economists with defending a bad model has consequences, here, a policy aim of whacking wages.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:00 am | 6 Comments »
Real Energy Transition Costs Could Spell Danger for EU
The EU is belatedly confronting the costs of their much-touted energy transition. Pols and voters are balking at the bill.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Europe, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:58 am | 29 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/8/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Democrats and the working class, “Starry Night” updated, and P. Diddy: a second Epstein? ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 78 Comments »
Links 4/8/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 195 Comments »
Interview: Puncturing Misconceptions About Vaccine Hesitancy
“Vaccine hesitancy” less pervasive than some say
Topics: Health care, Media watch, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 45 Comments »
No Exit: Western Imperialism, Capitalism, and Industrialization
Is industrialization the original sin of both capitalist and Communist/socialist economic systems?
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Russia, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 68 Comments »
The Economy Finally Doomed Erdogan in Major Defeat in Turkish Local Elections. What Comes Next?
Will the opposition be able to capitalize going forward, and what would that mean for the New Cold War?
Topics: Europe, Politics, Russia, Turkey
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 9 Comments »
BRICS Enlargement – a “Non-Event” or a Stage Victory Against the West?
What does BRICS want to be when it grows up?
Topics: Africa, China, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:46 am | 26 Comments »
The Medicare Maze
Eileen Appelbaum takes a critical look at Medicare Advantage, exposing how it falls short of its cost-saving and quality-enhancing promises.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:00 am | 20 Comments »
Will Human-to-Human Bird Flu (H5N1) Be the Long-Awaited “Disease X?”
A Bird Flu round-up, mostly from an institutional perspective.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 41 Comments »
Links 4/7/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 308 Comments »