Yves here. Virtually from the inception of this website, we warned that potable water would be the first resource to come under critical stress. as of then (mid 2000s) that…
I’d grumbled to Lambert about the lack of discussion among self-styled Trump resisters of litigation to counter some of the obvious lawbreaking initiatives Trump planned, with DOGE, intended to serve…
Yves here. It seemed appropriate to go with the news flow and thus provide an extra helping of Trump coverage. Please filter out the upset in the opening paragraphs about…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. On the Friday before inauguration day at 9:00pm, President-elect Donald Trump released a memecoin, $TRUMP, that by Sunday was valued at $58 billion, making him…
The just-started fight over how and how much to pay for houses destroyed or damaged in the extensive and still-burning Los Angeles foreshadows yet another ratchet down in living standards…
Conor here: Richard Murphy highlights a problem governments across much of the world are struggling with. And much like in the UK, there’s little talk about reducing inequality or moving…
Yves here. This story gives a window into what is coming en masse in the US in the not-too-distant future: a deluge of older Americans turfed out of housing due…
Yves here. Below we have embedded a presentation by a long-standing friend of the site on CalPERS and foreclosure fraud topics, Michael Cohen, a California attorney specializing in insurance. His…
Outgoing President Joe Biden used his farewell speech to offer warnings about an American oligarchy taking over the country. He spent about half a century in public office serving the…
Conor here: It seems to me that the author of the following piece only scratches the surface of how Lynch’s films dealt with the forces that dominate our lives, which…