Yves here. “Nobody wants to” should not be an acceptable answer. But advanced economy governments are cowed by big business, even incumbents of a industry in decline. This North Sea…
Yves here. This is all so sad. The cost of having lots of migrants compete for jobs at the bottom is more desperation, pressure on cheap housing, too often homelessness…
Yves here. I’m so used to cold water Yankee discipline and sheer terror as ways to deal with crisis level problems that I have trouble wrapping my mind around comedy…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I have my head down over the lengthy and horrid Durham Report. Please talk amongst yourselves! –lambert Contact information for plants: Readers, feel free to…
As Argentina grapples with an unpayable debt load, triple-digit inflation, severe drought and rising economic hardship, the idea of abolishing the crumbling peso and adopting the US dollar gains ground. …
Yves here. This is a very lucid post on the debt ceiling game of chicken that presents some options that I had not heard discussed before, such as a conflicts…
Yves here. I’m not sure how to prevent a major industry like meat producers from having a seat at the table, but it’s not hard to support preventing undue influence.…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” —Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Willing Powel of Philadelphia,…
Inside A Billionaire Bee Colony Forbes Neural mechanisms of parasite-induced summiting behavior in ‘zombie’ Drosophila (accepted manuscript). From the Abstract: “For at least two centuries, scientists have been enthralled by…
By Rachel Sherrington, a freelance investigative researcher and reporter based in London. She is the former Lead Researcher and Reporter at DeSmog, where she oversaw investigations into corporate greenwashing, banks’…