Recent Items
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Links 4/5/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 65 Comments »
Trump’s Tariffs Are Extremely Dumb, Just Not For The Reasons You Might Think
The massive Trump tariffs are a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:21 am | 22 Comments »
Trump’s Non-Cooperative Game
Game theorists do not take a kind view of how Trump is going about things.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:56 am | 14 Comments »
Coffee Break: The Powell Memo Kills American Science, Driving While Nonwhite Is Hazardous, and Science Can Recover but It Will Take Patience and Persistence.
Can medical science recover from the Powell memo and Project 2025 via slow science?
Topics: Coffee Break, Guest Post, Health care
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 17 Comments »
Private Equity Shares Tank Based on Trump Tariffs; Private Equity and Credit Crises Coming?
How the Trump tariffs will whack private equity, and even more so, investors like CalPERS and other public pension funds.
Topics: Credit markets, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Investment management, Private equity
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 46 Comments »
Why Does the US Want Everyone’s Biometric Data (Regardless of Who Is in the White House)?
And can it be trusted with it? (rhetorical question)
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 10 Comments »
Medicare Advantage Is Covering More and More Americans − Some Because They Don’t Get to Choose
Another layer of the ongoing campaign to get more Americans to use private and generally inferior Medicare Advantage over Traditional Medicare
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:50 am | 13 Comments »
Another Trump Big Lie: “Reciprocal Tariffs”
Further discussion of the delustions and misrepresentations of the Trump tariffs.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:47 am | 72 Comments »
Trump Deploys His Tariff Wrecking Ball; How Much Will the US Suffer Along with Most of the Rest of the World?
The latest Trump tariffs kick up the destructiveness of his administration up to a whole new level.
Topics: Banana republic, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Investment outlook, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:28 am | 183 Comments »
Iran Lacks the Leverage For a Fair Deal With the US
The US seems intent on bludgeoning Iran into a very unfavorable agreement.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 50 Comments »
Another “Covid Brain” Cognitive Impairment: Checklists?
Are difficulties with mental checklist another manifestation of “Covid brain”?
Topics: Pandemic, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 29 Comments »
What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?
Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment management, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:21 am | 14 Comments »
New Gallup Poll Finds Health Care Affordability Falling: One-Third Cannot Afford Care
More bad, if predictable, news on the US health care front.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 36 Comments »