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Friday, October 4, 2024
Links 8/16/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 170 Comments »
Advertisers Blacklisting News, Other Stories with “Controversial” Words Like “Trump”
How advertisers are killing the news business.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:50 am | 34 Comments »
Life, Deferred: Student Debt Postpones Key Milestones for Millions of Americans
The student debt crisis has produced a decline in homeownership, marriage, and childbearing rates among the young.
Topics: Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Social policy, Student loans, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:21 am | 48 Comments »
Even Larry Summers Denounces World Bank’s “PEF” Ebola Bonds That Enriched Investors at Expense of the Sick in the Congo
The World Bank wants to double down on financial gimmickry rather than develop the public health infrastructure to combat pandemics.
Topics: Africa, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:15 am | 16 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/15/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Hickenlooper, Sanders, legislative races, jobless claims, business inventories, manufacturing, productivity, Amazon and FedEx, AT&T, audits, Nader on the 737, submarine welding, Chilean glaciers, ACA marketplace random, Amazon ambassadors, college deans
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 196 Comments »
Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?
Combatting rising seas is a big ticket item, and one beyond the meane even of prosperous cities.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 82 Comments »
Links 8/15/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 117 Comments »
Dow Jones “Emasculated” in CalPERS Copyright Abuse Per Supreme Court Amicus Brief Citing Work of This Humble Blog
Dow Jones complains to the Supreme Court that it should have gotten a ton more money from the massive CalPERS copyright theft that we exposed.
Topics: CalPERS, Legal, Media watch
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
Brexit: According to Script
The commentariat’s Brexit predictions are playing out, sadly.
Topics: Banana republic, Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:27 am | 103 Comments »
Inflation Data Shows Tariffs Are Not a Tax on Consumers but on Foreign & US Corporations
Yves here. It has been reported in venues like the Financial Times that importers who would face increased costs from tariffs on China were taking steps so as not to increase prices to customers, which includes making their suppliers give better prices and eating some costs too. With profit share at a record high level […]
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:53 am | 16 Comments »
Class-Action Lawsuit Seeks To Let Medicare Patients Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage
A Medicare lawsuit winding its way through the courts should take some of the wind out of the sails of the idea of Medicare in its current form as a good way to implement single payer.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Legal
Posted by Yves Smith at 8:35 pm | 10 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/14/2019
Today’s Water Cooler:
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 177 Comments »
It Was More Like a Couple of Asian Decades Than a Century
China’s trend rates of growth are likely to be much lower than in the past, and even that is problematic. China will remain an important Asian player, not a dominant global force.
Topics: China, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 53 Comments »
Links 8/14/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 123 Comments »
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death, Critical Thinking, and the Decline of Reporting
Why neither the government nor the press have covered themselves in glory in ‘splaining the death of Jeffrey Epstein.
Topics: Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:14 am | 317 Comments »