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Sunday, May 18, 2025
Links 5/18/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 125 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Life Is Sweet (1990) Run Time: 1H 43M
Life is Sweet is a charming tale of a working class British family in the 1990’s.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 4 Comments »
Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Health and Human Services
RFK Jr. embrace pseudoscience and embarks on eugenicist policies that seek to identify and disempower the underprivileged.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Moral hazard, Pandemic, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 13 Comments »
Links 5/17/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 163 Comments »
Trump’s Trade Deals Endanger Farmers and Our Food System
Trump is reversing protections of the US food system, subjecting farmers to a race to the bottom in international markets
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:25 am | 11 Comments »
Shanghai’s Liberation Daily Interviewed Michael Hudson: The Trade Conflict Has Brought Irreversible Impacts, Trump Is Compromising Himself
A look at the US’s flagging economic model and how the Trump trade war will affect the US, China, and other counties.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:46 am | 27 Comments »
Coffee Break: Notes on Pandemic Responses, a Human Pathogen that Eats the Plastic of Medical Devices, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Speaks Out
Part the First: Retrospective Notes on a Pandemic. BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, has recently published two interesting pieces on COVID-19. The first is an analysis by Anthony Costello, who was previously Director of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health at the World Heath Organization: UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 29 Comments »
Japan to Arm Wrestle the US About Tariffs….and What About Restrictions on Chinese Investments and Products?
Japan wanted an early US trade deal. It is discovering that its sort-of special relationship with the US is not getting it any breaks.
Topics: China, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Japan, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 18 Comments »
Links 5/16/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 145 Comments »
US Looks to Escalate Its Economic War Against the World’s Poorest By Taxing Remittance Payments
Paradoxically, this is likely to create more, not less, illegal immigration to the US.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 15 Comments »
Book Review: A Skeptical Look at Grand Designs for the Future
A harsh look at schemes for a happy future, at least for billionaires, which ignore their problems and excuse tolerating rot today.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 31 Comments »
Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Prove the Sickness at the Heart of the NHS
Most users of GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic need to stay on them long-term to keep pound off. So is medicine promoting an addicition?
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:01 am | 62 Comments »
Big Law Deals With Trump Are Backfiring on Top Firms
Major law firms in a storng position to fight Trump diktats about backing conservative interests are paying a price for selling out.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 5/15/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 125 Comments »
Trump Smoke and Mirrors on Full Display in Claimed “$142 Billion” Saudi Arms Deal
A look at the workings and effectiveness of Trump hype, from the touted India-Pakistan mediation to DOGE to the new Saudi arms agreement.
Topics: Dubious statistics, India, Macroeconomic policy, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 27 Comments »