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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Links 7/15/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 40 Comments »
What Birmingham’s Trash Heaps Say About Starmer’s Britain
In the land that gave us Margaret Thatcher’s “there is no alternative” and “there’s no such thing as society”, the provision of even the most basic public services is becoming a problem.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 4 Comments »
Message to Trump: Incompetence Is Not Virtue. Also, People Will Die
The main and possibly only qualification for Trump’s top appointees is the ability to tell blatant lies with a straight face.
Topics: Corporate governance, Guest Post, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:03 am | 22 Comments »
Coffee Break: Texas Floods, Biblical Divorce Complicate US Senate Primary
Texas floods, Biblical divorce complicate US Senate race for Ken Paxton as Democrats search for a candidate.
Topics: Coffee Break, Politics
Posted by Nat Wilson Turner at 2:00 pm | 25 Comments »
Possible Kraft Heinz Breakup: A Buffett Investment Failure, Thanks to Healthier Tastes Among the Better Off and Need for Better Bargains for the Rest
A badly under-perfoming merger, Kraft and Heinz, is set to be reversed. Did that deal undermine the giants adapting to changing tastes?
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Income disparity, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 13 Comments »
Links 7/14/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 110 Comments »
What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?
As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Income disparity, Market inefficiencies, Middle East, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 44 Comments »
FEMA’s Flood Maps Often Miss Dangerous Flash Flood Risks, Leaving Homeowners Unprepared
Even where FEMA identifies a flood risk, the overreliance on historical data and political influence leads to maps that don’t fully represent true risk.
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 8 Comments »
U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.
Real reform in American politics won’t come new parties — but from breaking investors’ grip and rebuilding power from the ground up.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:00 am | 1 Comment »
“Europe Won’t Need Russian Gas in the Future”
Europe celebrates its economic suicide by continuing down the path of achieving independence from cheap Russian gas.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:54 am | 29 Comments »
Links 7/13/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 145 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Cloak And Dagger (1946) Run Time 1H 46M
Cloak and Dagger is a noir spy thriller about a physicist turned secret agent in WW2.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 6 Comments »
Housing a Basic Right or Playground for Global Capital? – Paul Jay
How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Hedge funds, Market inefficiencies, Private equity, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 24 Comments »
Links 7/12/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 146 Comments »
Stop Israel’s Dystopian “New Improved” Concentration Camp Plan—Before It’s Too Late
Israel keeping finding new lows in depraved behavior. Now we have Israel trying to brand a concentration camp as a “humanitarian city”.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Legal, Middle East, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:10 am | 58 Comments »