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Monday, December 4, 2023
Links 12/4/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 9 Comments »
EU and US Ukraine Funding Even More in Doubt as War Effort Falters
Things are going from bad to worse for Ukraine, and at an accelerating pace too.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Macroeconomic policy, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 5 Comments »
Evidence – And an Explanation – For the Recent Surge in Inflation Inequality
Though firms passed rising upstream costs on to retailers at similar absolute rates, the increases for low-end products are disproportionately large when measured in percentages – a pattern with real consequences for consumers.
Topics: Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 2 Comments »
The Etymologies of Capital, Capitalist, and Capitalism: A Brief Sketch
How English added capital, capitalist, and capitalism to its word hoard.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 12 Comments »
Links 12/3/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 167 Comments »
FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity
Over the past three years, FTC and Department of Justice officials have signaled they would apply more scrutiny to private equity acquisitions in health care, including roll-up deals in which larger provider groups buy smaller groups in a local market.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Private equity
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 18 Comments »
Links 12/2/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 232 Comments »
The Pentagon Fails Its Audit Again—and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again
he Pentagon is still at it! Keeps using bad books helps cover for getting more than it is entitled to.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:46 am | 38 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: “As Bombs Are Raining Down on Gaza Again, It Is No Longer About Hamas or Netanyahu. It Is About OUR Humanity Being Tested
A call to stand against the slaughter in Gaza.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:00 am | 66 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/1/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 81 Comments »
Solving the Climate Crisis Means Ending Our Addiction to Economic Growth
COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Topics: Corporate governance, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 69 Comments »
Links 12/1/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 120 Comments »
The Drums of War Are Growing Louder in South America
As tensions rise in the Essequibo territorial dispute, Brazil sends reinforcements to its northern border, Venezuela holds a referendum on whether to annex the region and Guyana mulls hosting US military bases.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 27 Comments »
NATO/West or Global Majority? Unipolar Destruction or Multipolar Development? The World Must Choose
Yves here. While there is a lot of merit in the latest discussion between Radhika Desai and Micheal Hudson on their favorite topic of mutlipolarity, I feel compelled to correct some imprecisions. The video depicts the “German government” as having “raised” the debt brake but then “not being allowed” with no depiction of agency, to […]
Topics: Africa, China, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 21 Comments »
The Dutch Earthquake
Why did so many Dutch citizens vote for the far-right Geert Wilders?
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Environment, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:10 am | 35 Comments »