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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
IM Doc Warns of Coming Medical Dystopia in the US via Pervasive Recording of Visits, AI Test Ordering and Upselling
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:58 am | 70 Comments »
Russiagate Revived in Latest MI6 Operation Against Russia — A Spy Alone Is Spy Baloney
Russiagate fever reaches a new pitch with a new supposed spook-tells-all tale of Russia fixing the Brexit vote.
Topics: Curiousities, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:04 am | 34 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/16/2024
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 131 Comments »
Bizarre Valedictory Interview by CalSTRS Investment Chief, Chris Ailman, Asks Private Equity to Be Nice and Share with Workers
A revealing, and not at all in a good way, discussion of private equity by departing CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Chris Ailman.
Topics: Credit markets, Dubious statistics, Income disparity, Investment management, Investment outlook, Private equity, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 11 Comments »
Links 2/16/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 205 Comments »
France’s Macron Government Is Trying to Criminalise Criticism of Officially Recommended or Mandated Medical Treatments
A new escalation in the war on what governments deem to be medical mis-, dis- and mal-information appears to be under way.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 31 Comments »
Israeli Siege Has Placed Gazans at Risk of Starvation − Prewar Policies Made Them Vulnerable in the First Place
The more you look at the genocidal actions of Israel, the more the clear its abject lack of morality becomes.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Legal, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 28 Comments »
NYC Squeezing Migrants Out of Waiting Rooms, Effectively Forcing Them on to the Streets
NYC Mayor Adams wants to close overflow sites where migrants evicted from shelters sleep on the ground while waiting for a new cot
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:51 am | 12 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/15/2024
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 86 Comments »
Bill Lerach on Litigating Corporate Wrongdoing: “The System Is Set Up to Defeat Deterrence”
The formidable and controversial former lawyer Bill Lerach explained in a recent interview why corporate misconduct is so deeply entrenched.
Topics: Guest Post, Investment management, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 2/15/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 142 Comments »
Inflation and Power
Why the Fed’s approach to inflation has the main effect of reducing labor bargaining power, which is seldom the real problem.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:53 am | 27 Comments »
The U.S.’ Return to Its “Denial Oil” Strategy Is Critical
A perspective from Kurdistan on the US’ choices in the Middle East, with control over oil an open question.
Topics: Energy markets, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:45 am | 15 Comments »
From the History of Western War Crimes: The Dresden Massacre (February 1945)
On the Dresden firebombing and the established pattern of World War II victors to ignore their war crimes.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Legal
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:58 am | 95 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/14/2024
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Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 89 Comments »