Yves here. Gerald Epstein, who has written regularly about bank regulation and the inadequacy of “reforms” since the 2008 financial crisis, weighs in with his take on the 2023 panic.…
Edward Luce, a Financial Times columnist who was Larry Summers’ speechwriter and remains a whisper to top Democrats, has published a peculiar and revealing piece musing about the failure (although…
Scientists create Liquid Trees; a tank full of water and micro-algae that could be an alternative to trees in urban areas YUP Strange Acceleration of Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Finally Explained…
Lambert here: Is there no end to the wonders of crypto? By Audrey Carleton, an award-winning environmental journalist who has written for Capital and Main, VICE, Grist, the Guardian, Earther,…
Yves here. Supposedly super duper bank reforms after the crisis have done little to shore up confidence, particularly among the rich who tend to keep too much in uninsured accounts…
Yves here. As much as the overall picture for worker rights seems grim, the flip side is concerted pushback is finally producing some reversals of long-standing cuts in rights, as…
Yves here. This post shows how the French revolt against Macron’s dictatorial raising of retirement ages is already having economic effects beyond France. Admittedly the changes so far are only…
By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Baker Institute Fellow for Kuwait, Rice University. Originally published at The Conversation. The fact that Saudi Arabia entered a rapprochement deal with Iran and chose China…
By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean. He has performed and directed…
Yves here. I must confess that the lack of an integrated approach to weaning economies off fossil fuel has me deeply discouraged, independent of the inherent difficulty of the project.…