Yves here. While the press has made some attempts to identify climate change/environmental feedback loops, they tend to focus on simple ones, like higher temperatures leading to ocean floor and…
Yves here. Textbooks, like dictionaries, help anchor orthodox thinking and usage. Evidence that textbooks are becoming even more hesitant in discussing climate change suggests that big corporate pushback and doubt-sowing…
We though we’d give a mini-progress report on a set of filings against a series of European corporate governance train wrecks, including Bayer, Volkswagen, UBS and Credit Suisse via the…
Yves here. Oil experts had warned that the 2022 Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown would be bullish for oil in 2023, since replenishing the stocks would boost oil demand. The Biden…
Yves here. This talk reviews how one leg of the multi-fronted right wind backlash of the 1970s and 1980s targeted Allende’s 1972 call for a new international economic order. Specifically,…
Ooh, things are getting to be fun! Nothing like watching geopolitical jousting out in the open. Here, we have the US (and NATO) attempting to push around Türkiye, a country…
Conor here. Yet another example of Kissinger’s warning, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” But here both Greece and Türkiye may…
By Harris Meyer, a freelance journalist, covering health care, business, law, culture, & wine. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. Dr. Paul Jeffords and his colleagues at Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics…
By James Meadway who hosts the weekly economics podcast Macrodose and is director of the Progressive Economy Forum. Previously, he was economic adviser to the shadow chancellor, and chief economist…
By Conor Gallagher On Dec. 19 the Biden administration rolled out its initiative to tackle homelessness in the US. It’s basically a big plan to make a lot of plans,…