By Conor Gallagher It was all rainbows and unicorns during a recent meeting between US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as they announced that…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am enmeshed in the coils of hospital infection control regulation, and hope to escape at some point today. In the meantime, this…
Lambert here: A good test of my theory that financial institutions with “First” in their names are like restaurants named “Mom’s. By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published…
It is remarkable to see the Fed determined to keep driving banks and investors into the ditch in the name of combatting an inflation it can’t fix. Since when do…
Yves here. Michael Hudson has graciously provided us with an overview of his new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point. It looks at…
The Myth of the Alpha Wolf The New Yorker (Furzy Mouse). Robotic beehive provides vital life support to chilly honeybees New Atlas (Furzy Mouse). Been caught stealin’: Hindenburg Research is…
Lambert here: In like a lion, out like a lamb. (The Democrats not only managed to avoid passing single payer during a pandemic, they managed to erase it from the…
Yves here. Jared Holst looks at gender proliferation, which per the post below is so elastic as to include people who identify as not human. I have been told that…
Yves here. Yet another alert that environmentally-friendly claims about packaging might be bogus, following in path of carbon credits and other “new and improved” versions. By Ian Morse (@ianjmorse), who…
Yves here. In a departure from our usual programming, below is the promotional material for Michael Hudson’s newest book, The Collapse of Antiquity. Enjoy! The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel…