By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I apologize for my failure to provide a witty headline. I thought of #Twittergeddon but it never went viral, and #Twitterdammerung even less so. So…
Lambert Strether: Plus ça change…. Good job untangling campaign contributions, though! By Samantha Young, Senior Correspondent, Andy Miller, Senior Editor, and Rebecca Grapevine, a journalist who writes about public health.…
Yves here. Michael Hudson fans might enjoy this deep dive into the backstory of the development of a key type of lending, the collateralized loan known as a mortgage. Notice…
Yves here. You cannot make this stuff up. The West thinks it has spared itself much pain from its Russian oil price cap scheme by allowing third parties to buy…
The unemployment rate rose from 3.5% to 3.7%, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists had estimated that 190,000 jobs were added last month. Employers added 261,000 jobs despite high inflation, rising interest rates…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Olivaceous Siskin, 17 km WSW Rioja, above El Consuelo – LSU/ AMNH, San Martín, Peru. Politics “But what is government…
Who Knew Reptiles Could Be Such Romantics? NYT Harvard study on monkeys reignites ethical debate over animal testing CBS Guilty Before Innocent Jed Rakoff, The Nation (NL). Review of Daniel…
The Central Bank of Nigeria is undeterred. To deepen its drive to “entrench a cashless economy” and boost take-up of the eNaira, it is launching a demonetization process not too…
Yves here. We are delighted to feature another blockbuster interview with Michael Hudson. This one covers a great deal of historical terrain, including the role of the state as industrialization…
Yves here. See, we’re not all gloom and doom! A positive climate development! By Bob Henson. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections A treaty adopted 35 years ago and meant…