Category: Economy

As the US goes down the trade war route with China, it’s looking for others to join the party. There are numerous reasons to believe the entire project will go…

Conor here: I suppose some of this makes a little more sense if the following is true: Nah here’s the thing: 50-75% of US farms are already tax shelters &…

Yves here. Regulars may recall that Satyajit Das has written other articles about movies that we have been honored to publish, such as Desperately Seeking Entertainment and New Asian Cinematic…

The Trump administration is ending work authorizations for two hundred union members who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. It also…

Conor here: I don’t follow UK politics all that closely, but doesn’t this type of sleeze date back a long time. Lloyd George and Tony Blair’s time in office leap…

Yves here. Many of you have read David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years. This article does not attempt to give such a broad look, but instead focuses on the…

[embedded content] Hello gentle readers and welcome back to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie! (I dropped the “Antidote” part because as a few folks noted the movies might…

By Daniel Apai, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona. Originally published at The Conversation.  A team of astronomers announced on April 16,…

“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.

Yes, it’s unseemly to say, “I told you so.” But it was remarkable to see most (one might say pretty much all) commentators on the Ukraine war beat go gaga…