Yves here. This post shows how the French revolt against Macron’s dictatorial raising of retirement ages is already having economic effects beyond France. Admittedly the changes so far are only…
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Baker Institute Fellow for Kuwait, Rice University. Originally published at The Conversation. The fact that Saudi Arabia entered a rapprochement deal with Iran and chose China…
By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean. He has performed and directed…
Yves here. I must confess that the lack of an integrated approach to weaning economies off fossil fuel has me deeply discouraged, independent of the inherent difficulty of the project.…
President Joe Biden says that Republicans’ ideas for cutting the budget could undermine U.S. manufacturing and help China dominate the world economy. (Mar. 28)
By Jake Johnson, staff writer at Common Dreams. In prepared testimony for a Senate Banking Committee hearing slated for Tuesday morning, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reveals…
“Brazilian and Chinese interests… align at present in some important areas, the most important being an investment in a multipolar world order.” Today (March 28), Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula…
By Conor Gallagher It was all rainbows and unicorns during a recent meeting between US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as they announced that…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am enmeshed in the coils of hospital infection control regulation, and hope to escape at some point today. In the meantime, this…
Lambert here: A good test of my theory that financial institutions with “First” in their names are like restaurants named “Mom’s. By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published…