Is Reform less formidable than its stunning success in recent local council elections indicates?
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Saturday, January 17, 2026
“How Long Is It Before Reform Implodes?”
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:43 am | 35 Comments »
Links 5/11/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 151 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Night Stalker (1972) Run Time: 1H 14M
In The Night Stalker, a veteran reporter suspects a vampire is behind a series of gruesome murders in Los Vegas.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 31 Comments »
Forensic Science Faces an Identity Crisis
To avoid bias, should scientists direct evidence collection from a crime scene? Or should they stay removed from it?
Topics: Curiousities, Legal, Moral hazard, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 6 Comments »
Links 5/10/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 166 Comments »
Michael Hudson: The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking
A wide ranging talk that corrects the record about banking, such as the the Catholic Church, as opposed to Jews, being the prime mover
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 16 Comments »
How Some Independent Radio Stations Avoid Sounding Like Corporate Drones
Some hopeful independent media news, here on the radio front.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:04 am | 45 Comments »
Coffee Break: More on the Disruption of American Science and Good News on Intranasal Viruses to Combat Respiratory Viruses
Part the First. A Few Words in Response to the Excellent Commentariat of Naked Capitalism. No one knows better than I that funding of science in the United States is hit or miss. My overall average flirts with the Mendoza Line, which is not so bad. For most I do not miss the grant treadmill/lottery, […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Environment, Health care, Science and the scientific method, Technology and innovation
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 12 Comments »
“The US Trade Deal Is a Bad Deal, and It Has the Potential to Get Worse”
The first US trade “deal”, with the UK, looks as ugly as one might have expected.
Topics: Auto industry, Commodities, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Taxes, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 38 Comments »
Links 5/9/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 155 Comments »
Mexico’s Exports to US Surge to a New Record High Despite, or Largely Because of, Trump’s Tariffs
The world’s largest bilateral trade relationship continues to grow, but it’s a trend that is unlikely to last.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 5 Comments »
Currency Wars, Class Warfare, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid – but will that fly among Trump supporters?
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Taxes, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 14 Comments »
Palantir Revisited: Who’s Us in Us vs. Them?
Further discussion of the reductivist “Your with us or your against us” world view, which Newspeak-wise, is being reduced to hatred of Them.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:40 am | 13 Comments »
Martin Wolf’s “The old global economic order is dead”
A look at two factoids in a new Martin Wolf article illustrate why our economic mess seems intractable….and not just for the feckless US.
Topics: Banking industry, China, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 79 Comments »
Links 5/8/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 163 Comments »



