Yves here. I have retitled the post by John Ruehl because I regard the original title, which reflects the positioning of the piece to be misleading. Ruehl, playing on xenophobia,…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing…
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Yves here. I am hoisting these comments from February 10 Links for two reasons. One is that in many ways, it illustrates the commentariat living up to its potential via…
In a step forward for long-suffering Kentucky Retirement Systems (now Kentucky Public Pension Authority) beneficiaries, attorneys for so-called Tier 3 Plaintiffs beat back a scheme by Attorney General Russell Coleman…
By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes. Originally published at EcoWatch. According to a new report by independent research group Climate Central, the climate crisis has driven weeks of hot temperatures in West…
The world economy was already grappling with a perplexing assortment of variables, from geopolitical conflicts and a slowdown in China to the evolving complexities of climate change. Then, President Trump…
By Kyoji Fukao, Chairman of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, and University Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, and Ivan Deseatnicov, an assistant professor…
Most commentators took the Trump talk of owning or getting rights to Ukraine’s minerals to be bluster. Yours truly remarked otherwise, that this looked like a way for Trump to…
Yves here. Who’d have thunk it? The case of Elon Musk demonstrates that moving from a democratic republic to an open oligarchy is messy! By Sara Talpos, a contributing editor…