Links 2/15/2024 | naked capitalism
Longtime manatee researcher knows hundreds of sea cows by name at Florida’s Blue Spring State Park Orlando Sentinel Do apes have humor? Max-Planck-Gesellschaft At the Money: Is War Good for…
Longtime manatee researcher knows hundreds of sea cows by name at Florida’s Blue Spring State Park Orlando Sentinel Do apes have humor? Max-Planck-Gesellschaft At the Money: Is War Good for…
Yves here. This post argues, and not from a Marxist perspective, that the US reliance on the Fed (as opposed to other means) to combat inflation via its blunt instrument…
The Japanese economy contracted at the end of last year, defying expectations for modest growth and pushing the country into a recession. Japan’s unexpectedly weak economy in the fourth quarter…
The News Britain’s economy sunk into a recession at the end of last year, capping off a year of economic strain in which interest rates were pushed to their highest…
Yves here. This is an interesting perspective on the US strategy in the Middle East, since the author is based in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. He sees the US…
Yves here. This post describes the responsibility for the firebombing of Dresden and the failure to treat it as a war crime. Not surprisingly, victors in war and colonizers tend…
Yves here. KLG unpacks a new paper that has gotten a lot of play in the popular press, which presents a new theory of why women get autoimmune diseases more…
Below we are featuring a compact and highly readable study by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, How Private Equity Gets Its Cut from Medicare Advantage, by Mary Bugbee (mary.bugbee@pestakeholder.org). We…
The economy is probably headed toward a recession. No, it’s actually booming again. Inflation is plummeting. No, it has started rising again. If you find the cacophony of economic indicators…
There have been just a handful of moments over the centuries when we have experienced a huge shift in the skills our economy values most. We are entering one such…