Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread
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Saturday, October 5, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler Independence Day 2019
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 104 Comments »
Links 7/4/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 126 Comments »
Michael Hudson Discusses the IMF and World Bank: Partners In Backwardness
Michael Hudson explains how the IMF and World Bank support US hegemony.
Topics: Banana republic, Currencies, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:40 am | 48 Comments »
U.N. Report: ‘Human Rights Might Not Survive’ Climate Crisis
Not surprisingly, the poor, particularly in developing countries, will be devastated by climate change.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:38 am | 45 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/3/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 113 Comments »
Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
Topics: Banana republic, China, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 19 Comments »
Links 7/3/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 227 Comments »
Congress Sniffing Around Botched McKinsey Studies Depicted as Impairing Intelligence Agencies
McKinsey is in hot water again.
Topics: Banana republic, Politics, Privatization, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:19 am | 18 Comments »
Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:35 am | 28 Comments »
”Maximum Pressure” Campaign Fails To Kill Off Iran’s Oil Exports
Iran and the US look deadlocked.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:57 am | 33 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/2/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: AOC at the border, and open thread.
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 157 Comments »
One Hundred Years After World War I, Are We Heading Back to the Abyss?
The odds of a major war, even one that could fracture the world order, appear uncomfortably high.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 83 Comments »
Links 7/2/19
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 96 Comments »
Takers and Makers: Who Are the Real Value Creators?
Why stories from “value creators” should be taken with a fistful of salt.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Social policy, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:55 am | 30 Comments »
Brexit Radicals
Looking for cheery news on Brexit? You’ll have to look awfully hard.
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Politics, Regulations and regulators, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:25 am | 53 Comments »