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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Links 12/21/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 40 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: An Ideal Husband (1969) Run Time: 1H 22M Bonus: Woo!
An Ideal Husband is a humourous play about past mistakes and future serendipities.
Topics: Guest Post, Sunday morning Antidote movie
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 2 Comments »
These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Technology and innovation
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 6 Comments »
Links 12/20/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 118 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Trump Floundering Efforts to Shore Up US Hegemony
Why Trump’s National Security Strategy and his efforts to shore up dollar dominance are proofs of weakness.
Topics: China, Credit markets, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:50 am | 60 Comments »
Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?
Why alarmism about public debt is fundamentally misguided.
Topics: Credit markets, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment outlook, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:30 am | 21 Comments »
Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines
Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?” Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current Administration as Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 23 Comments »
Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador
Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably <1>pour décourager les autres.
Topics: Africa, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:57 am | 12 Comments »
Links 12/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 102 Comments »
Shining a Light on How Exxon Mobil Indirectly Funds Think Tank “Experts” Calling for Regime-Change War in Venezuela
When Trump talks about Venezuela stealing US oil, he’s almost certainly talking about Exxon Mobil’s oil.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 21 Comments »
“The Truth Behind Trump’s Aggressive Venezuela Strategy”
An explanation of why US belligerence against Venezuela is not about exploiting its oil. So what is it about?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 53 Comments »
Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release Is Like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious
Unpacking the data crime in the new inflation report: a bizarre fall in housing costs, aka Owners Equivalent of Rent, which is 26% of CPI.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:46 am | 11 Comments »
‘Emotional Loading’: Decoding the Media Coverage of the Bondi Beach Shooting
‘Emotional loading’ is a technique used in the coverage of Bondi Beach to shape the narrative and sideline critical analysis
Topics: Coffee Break, Media watch, Moral hazard
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 10 Comments »
“Trump Supporters Distrust Science. We Need Ways to Reach Them”
The elites, including those in science, seem to think that their loss of legitimacy can be solved by messaging. Good luck with that.
Topics: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Politics, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 23 Comments »
Links 12/18/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 86 Comments »




