The DOJ and eight states on August 23 sued the private equity-owned company that allegedly operates as the middle man in a national property management cartel that has sent rent…
Conor here: The following piece highlights how adaptation and technological solutions to the climate crisis are snake oil and argues instead for degrowth. If it weren’t for the Trump tariffs…
Yves here. This post usefully goes a bit deeper into the regulatory system for food additives. It should come as no surprise that in the US, it remarkably permissive. The…
The International Monetary Fund has reported that the US economy will experience slower economic growth and higher prices, in part due to US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs. Growth is…
Dietary supplements are a large part of the alternative medicine universe, with annual sales of more than $70B in the United states and much more than that in the rest…
Last week Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Trump at the White House. They reportedly discussed Ukraine, defense spending, economy, space, energy —specifically Italy importing more US liquefied natural…
Conor here: As the following piece from DeSmog notes, the AI champions assure us that eventually “AI will develop solutions to deal with climate change.” Bloomberg ran a whole piece…
The 9/11 attack on the U.S. triggered a series of disastrous wars in the Mideast in which the U.S. pursued the goals of overthrowing despots, securing oil supplies, and removing…
Stupidity Rather Than Sound Policy Is Taking Over in the UK Whichever way you look at it, Britain is in a mess. The mood is poisonous, the most common thing…
Silicon Valley’s darkest and most secretive unicorn “has finally made it big”. But at what cost to the rest of us? For almost two years, the British government has been…