Legions of European companies are succumbing to the final straw of Europe’s largely self-inflicted energy crisis. Bankruptcy proceedings in the Canary Islands, Spain’s heavily tourism-dependent island chain, soared a whopping…
The great unwashed American public is being subjected to yet another round of “Cream for me, crumbs for thee” in the form of a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “All that is solid melts into air.” –Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto “Gentlemen, I as leader will use power like a drum…
By Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics the Booth School of Business at University Of Chicago, Matilde Bombardini, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics at University…
Colombia Struggles to Control Exploding Population of Over 100 Invasive Hippos Field and Stream Scientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost CNN [shudder]. California’s…
Silicon Vally Bank, the 16th largest in the US, was shut down and put under the control of California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation on Friday. This failure is…
Yves here. I am guilty of the kind of behavior that this article criticizes, by supporting the Snow Leopard Trust, which tries to help the endangered species by giving local…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day American Robin, Burton Drive Hideaway, King, Washington, United States. “American Robins upset by 2 Barred Owls in a tree, called…
Yves here. While this article is useful in documenting the extent of body dysmorphic disorder, in my humble opinion, it is remiss in failing to discuss the huge industry that…
“We will not allow any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less with armed forces,” AMLO told US neocons. Relations between US and Mexican lawmakers plumbed new lows…