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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
How Workers and Firms Meet in the Labour Market and Why It Matters
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:54 am | 2 Comments »
“If Europe Is Under Attack We Will Never Come to Help You” – EU Top Official Quotes Trump
Even though Trump would find it hard to limit US support to NATO, the US has deep-seated problems with its ability to project power
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:05 am | 73 Comments »
Netanyahu Vows to Defy International Court of Justice as Israel Moves to Tighten Control Over Southern Gaza Border
Israel is determined to inflict more punishment in Gaza.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:04 am | 38 Comments »
The Collapse of the Public Health Establishment is the Collapse of the Professional-Managerial Class
A White House Press Secretary, the Director of a national public health agency, and the Chair of the Department of Medicine at a major public university.
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:25 pm | 78 Comments »
Links 1/14/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 245 Comments »
The Law Firm Helping Big Oil Weaponize the First Amendment
Gibson Dunn is “playing both sides” of free speech, using it to defend Big Oil and silence the industry’s critics.
Topics: Banana republic, Energy markets, Environment, Garrulous insolence, Global warming
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:54 am | 12 Comments »
Links 1/13/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 175 Comments »
Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It
More discussion of the broader implications of Israel’s and the US’s refusal to change course (much) regarding Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 65 Comments »
The Debt Explosion: How Neoliberalism Fuels Debt Crises
Radhika Desai and Michael Husdon provide a data-driven discussion of the inflating and detonation of debt bombs during the neoliberal era.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:41 am | 34 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/12/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 86 Comments »
Gonzalo Lira Is Dead
Gonzalo Lira died in prison in Ukraine.
Topics: Media watch, Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:59 pm | 101 Comments »
Israel Raises Major Procedural Problem with South Africa Filing, Challenges “Genocidal Intent” by Citing Policies, Relief
Israel may have found some real chinks in South Africa’s genocide filing.
Topics: Africa, Doomsday scenarios, Legal, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:03 am | 124 Comments »
Links 1/12/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 136 Comments »
More Signs of War in South America, As Ecuadorian Government Declares “Internal Armed Conflict” With Drug Cartels
The Noboa government’s labelling of the drug cartels as “terrorist organisations” and “belligerent non-state actors” opens the door even wider to the prospect of US military support.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 8 Comments »
Doctors Raise Alarm on Dropping Global Fertility Rate, Environmental Pollutants Cited
A new paper on dropping fertility rates urges policies to increase them, ignoring resource constraints and environment degradation.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 29 Comments »