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Sunday, November 15, 2026
Links 11/15/2026
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 89 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Witch Hunt (1981) Run Time: 1H 29M Plus Bonuses
The Witchhunt is a film about superstition and repression in 17th. century Norway.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 3 Comments »
WWII Sparked Anti-Fascist Ideas Among War Workers. What Lessons Can We Learn?
Historian Tejasvi Nagaraja explains how wartime mobilization generated wider organizing around labor, race, and empire.
Topics: Middle East, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 3 Comments »
Links 11/14/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 165 Comments »
Tech Fragility: Why the Microsoft 365 Outage Is Different and Why It Takes So Long to Restore Email Services
The Microsoft 360 outage comes as other tech-related wheels have fallen off, such as at the FAA. Is it time to think about more redundancy?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Payment system, Risk and risk management, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:50 am | 57 Comments »
Understanding Economics: Capital Isn’t Capitalism
Richard Murphy unpacks what capital amounts to and why understanding that matters.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:27 am | 12 Comments »
Coffee Break: MAHA Bites, Economic Growth Is a Dead End, New Politics, Old Politics, American Science on the Ropes But Still Productive
Part the First: MAHA in Action Leads to Fatal Inaction. Vitamin K was discovered nearly a hundred years ago as a compound necessary for efficient blood clotting. From the Nobel Foundation: In addition to carbohydrates, proteins and fats, our bodies need vitamins to function well. When Henrik Dam conducted experiments on chickens that were given […]
Topics: Coffee Break, Health care, Politics, Social policy, The dismal science
Posted by KLG at 2:00 pm | 20 Comments »
Debate in New York City Over City‑Run Grocers Is Not Just About Food, but Something Bigger
Will municipal grocers in New York City advance the idea that government can intervene openly to help lower costs to consumers?
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:00 am | 11 Comments »
Links 11/13/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 88 Comments »
Jensen Huang Ouster at Nvidia: Bigger Governance and Coming Financial Train Wreck than Hank Greenberg Exit from AIG
Nvidia’s ouster of Jensen Huang is proving out short-seller David Einhorn’s saying: “No matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse.”
Topics: China, Corporate governance, Investment outlook, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:15 am | 103 Comments »
Data Centers Really Are Ripping You Off
How ordinary electricity customers get saddled with way more than their fair share of data center costs.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:49 am | 15 Comments »
El-Sayed Laughs at the Muslim Brotherhood Because It’s Mostly Dead, Despite the Propaganda
Broken since Egypt’s 2013 coup, the Muslim Brotherhood poses no threat to the West—yet Israel and the UAE keep its phantom image alive
Topics: Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Curro Jimenez at 2:00 pm | 7 Comments »
Why Is Work Getting Worse?
Employees in the UK are much less happy with work than in the early 1990s, despite their positive views about having a job. What gives?
Topics: Corporate governance, Guest Post, Social values, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:09 am | 25 Comments »
Links 11/12/2026
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 129 Comments »
‘A Mobilization That No One Imagined’: Furious Over Housing Costs, Millions Join General Strike in Spain
The so-called 11N protest Spain is a general strike for housing and against the cost of living.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:34 am | 31 Comments »




