By Dr. Derek Ellerman Everyone (except for the media and Democrats) knows the economy is in a precarious situation at best. I won’t even get into the NewSpeak definition of…
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…
Yves here. Gambling in Casablanca? Boatloads of money going astray in Ukraine? Quelle surprise! Actually, the only surprise is how openly remiss the IMF has been in keeping tabs on…
Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human Scientific Americans Swarming bees stir up their own electric fields Science Fed raises rates another 0.75 point, hints hikes could slow…
The people who can destroy a thing, they control it. ― Frank Herbert, Dune As we’ll outline below, most commentators may have missed a key implication of Russia’s surgical destruction…
Generalizing from one anecdote is always fraught, but this one is a doozy. The question is whether this sighing is simply a facet of wildly overpriced housing in San Francisco…
Yves here. While Tom Neuburger’s assessment of what it will take to produce serious action to combat climate change is pessimistic, it may not be pessimistic enough. The US has…
Yves here. Michael Hudson continues and extends his discussion about how Germany, more than any other US ally, is destroying economy to support US interests against Russia. Hudson compares the…
“It was a total head-in-the-sand situation. ‘It’s not going to happen to me. I’m too small.’ That was the overwhelming message that I was hearing five years ago,” says Ms…
By Conor Gallagher Türkiye continues to exasperate Washington and Brussels with its willingness to chart its own course in its relationship with Russia. While ties between Ankara and Moscow grow…