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Sunday, June 8, 2025
Links 6/8/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 110 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Shadowlands (1993) Run Time: 2H 11M
Shadowlands is a beautiful movie about the love between C.S. Lewis, played by Anthony Hopkins, and Joy Gresham, played by Debra Winger.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 8 Comments »
Your Smartphone Is a Parasite, According To Evolution
Is having a smartphone worse than having head lice?
Topics: Market inefficiencies, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 7 Comments »
Links 6/7/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 130 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Contradiction-Riddled Strategy to Preserve US Hegemony
Trump does have a plan to shore up America”s flagging power, even if, when you put the pieces together, it does not make much sense.
Topics: China, Credit markets, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 33 Comments »
How Tourism Pushed Barcelona to Breaking Point, and How Social Movements Are Fighting Back
Barcelona features locals turning activists to curb tourism levels that hurt everyday life, particulalry for lower income. residents
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Environment, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:26 am | 15 Comments »
Announcing New Coffee Break Writers!
Please welcome Nat Wilcox Turner and Curro Jimenez, who will be giving Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday Coffee Break features.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:48 pm | 21 Comments »
Coffee Break: Working Class Life in 17th-Century Italy, Science in Decline, AI and Scientific Understanding, and Neanderthal Art
Part the First. Tales from the Crypt. Subtitled The lives of 17th century Milan’s working poor – their health, diet, and drug habits – emerge from thousands of bodies buried under a public hospital. This article appeared in Science on 1 May 2025: In 1456, the Duke of Milan established a medical institution dedicated to […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Curiousities, Health care, Politics, Science and the scientific method, Social policy
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 15 Comments »
Golden Dome Dangers: How Trump’s Scheme Threatens to Make the US Less Safe
Why Trump’s Golden Dome is set to backfire, except for the grift, which is presumably the real point.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 33 Comments »
Links 6/6/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 166 Comments »
China’s Quiet Rapprochement With Israel
“The war continues, but the war is not the theme of Israel-China bilateral relations.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 12 Comments »
Satyajit Das: Lessons from Japan’s Massive Debt Hangover
While there are things the debt-addled West can learn from Japan, the dirty secret is they were in some key ways in better shape than we are.
Topics: Banking industry, Credit markets, Derivatives, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Japan
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:10 am | 14 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: In the EU Nothing Succeeds Like Gross Failure: The Astonishing Case of Ursula von der Leyen
A much-deserved evisceration of both Ursuala von der Leyen and the chumps who’ve bought what she has been selling.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:16 am | 27 Comments »
John Helmer: Putin Hits Pause Button on Oreshnik-Level Retaliation for Ukraine Strike on Russian Nuclear Deterrence Assets
In his latest talk with Ray McGovern on Dialogue Works, John Helmer gives far and away the best overview1 so far in the wake of Ukraine attacks on bridges and civilian trains, drone attacks targeting bombers in Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces, a failed new attack on Kerch Bridge, and phone discussions between Lavrov and Rubio […]
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Legal, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:36 am | 137 Comments »
Links 6/5/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 153 Comments »