Category: Economy

Yves here. Jared Holst looks at gender proliferation, which per the post below is so elastic as to include people who identify as not human. I have been told that…

Yves here. Yet another alert that environmentally-friendly claims about packaging might be bogus, following in path of carbon credits and other “new and improved” versions. By Ian Morse (@ianjmorse), who…

Yves here. In a departure from our usual programming, below is the promotional material for Michael Hudson’s newest book, The Collapse of Antiquity. Enjoy! The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m sorry this went up a bit late; I had a household emergency to deal with. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Wood…

Yves here. Even though we ran a post recently on the horrorshow of Medicare Advantage using AI to implement what amounts to reductions in coverage below contractually stipulated levels, this…

Yves here. Today Satyajit Das describes the areas of vulnerability in the financial system if stress levels increase. You’ll see it’s a mighty long list. Private equity and related areas…

“Taking our data without notice isn’t convenient, it’s creepy.” Everybody’s favourite big tech giant, Amazon, is facing yet another class-action lawsuit, this time for allegedly deploying biometric recognition technologies to…

Yves here. This post is the first of today’s double header on the bank panic and the reflexive Fed bailout, here done specifically done so as to be able to…

Yves here. I’m preserving the original OilPrice headline since it invokes one of the themes of a new pro-fossil-fuels messaging campaign, that migrating to cleaner energy sources is contrary to…

Yves here. This is deceptively important post. We’ve regularly mentioned that mainstream economists and the monetary economists at the Fed and presumably many other central banks adhere to the “loanable…