“The EU’s own top court has ruled on multiple occasions that the USA does not offer adequate privacy protections for non-citizens, yet the Commission and the member states are planning…
Yves here. Tom Neuburger sets forth examples of how the US is expanding its definitions of who its enemies are….after potentially having included President Kennedy as one. This posture looks…
Yves here. This is a fine compact treatment of the intellectually shoddy market fetishism, and how its biggest fanbois are routinely the ones who get waivers, such as bank and…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, brunch today was far too long for me to get back to my desk in time, and far too liquid for me to…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Lark-like Bunting, Akkerendam Nature Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa. Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as…
Business & FinanceEconomyGovernmentTechnology 24 April 2023, 2:57 pm 1 minute By Reuters News Agency Reuters exclusively revealed that the European Commission has updated draft patent rules to make it easier…
Economy 24 April 2023, 2:50 pm 1 minute By Reuters News Agency Reuters exclusively reported that members of China’s “interest rate self-regulatory mechanism,” mostly banks, met this month and were…
Cat Dies Defending Family from One of Australia’s Most Venomous Snakes Interesting Engineering (Chuck L). ‘We don’t need a baby, we have a cat’: Hong Kong women say no to…
We first wrote about what came to be called about deaths of despair when the landmark work by Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel prize winner in economics, and his wife…
Yves here. Forgive me for running this very fine Juan Cole piece a bit late, since it means you may have already seen it elsewhere. It gives a solid overview…