Why China’s Young People Are Not Getting Married
It has been a brutal three years for China’s young adults. Their unemployment rate is soaring amid a wave of corporate layoffs. Draconian coronavirus restrictions are over, but not the…
Future of Wagner Leader’s Business Empire Is Cloudy After Rebellion
A chocolate museum in St. Petersburg. A gold mine in the Central African Republic. Oil and gas ventures off the Syrian coast. The economic ventures of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, a…
A Tangled Past Complicates Poland’s Welcome to Ukrainian Refugees
In a rural village with fewer than 500 residents, strangers stand out. Even Anna Osinska, a 93-year-old villager with failing eyesight, noticed when people she did not recognize — refugees…
Iraq’s Climate Crisis: America’s War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl | naked capitalism
Conor here: The similarities between elements of the Iraq travesty and current events in Ukraine are remarkable. For instance, among all the other needless death and destruction, the war in…
Opinion | Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Know Whether He’s Coming or Going
Bret: I’m pretty sure we could get the word out that milk is generally fine for babies or vaccines are generally safe, without setting a precedent that the federal government…
Opinion | Full Speed Ahead on A.I. Our Economy Needs It.
The workers were furious. Believing that new mechanical looms threatened their jobs, they broke into factories, seized machinery, brought it into the street and set it afire, all with widespread…
The Impact of Brexit on the UK economy: Reviewing the Evidence | naked capitalism
Conor here: The following piece looks at trade, migration and investment (as well as the overall macroeconomic impacts) in the post-Brexit UK, and the conclusions are sobering. With declining living…
They Caught the Fish, but the $3.5 Million Prize Got Away
If you want to hear about the day the guys aboard the fishing boat Sensation landed a giant marlin and danced to Tina Turner because they were sure they had…
The Afterlife of Forlorn Office Furniture
Herman Miller is one of the most revered makers of office furniture in the world, its designs so esteemed that its Aeron chair, which became a fixture of New York…
The Case That Could Be Fox’s Next Dominion
Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted on his since-canceled Fox News program, one looms large: a conspiracy theory that an Arizona man working as a covert…