Yves here. It seems inadequate to simply keep chronicling the atrocities Israel continues to commit in Gaza. Far too many brave and ethical souls, from medics to journalists to aid…
Yves here. We, like many others, have described how Trump’s economic policies are rife with contradictions. The impact of tariffs on his prized LNG ambitions are a prime example. By…
Yves here. While Tom Neuburger is correct in pointing out that our now worse-than-1788-France-levels of inequality call for a revolution, he skips over the fact that we are in the…
While you’ve been distracted by Trump bringing the WWE to the world stage via tariff body slams leading to market knockouts, the end of due process thanks to doubling down…
On Monday, we took a look at the West’s attempted rug pull from underneath China’s years-long strategy to emerge as the global leader in the clean tech industry. As the…
Yves here. This post is useful by virtue of giving some detail on how the Smoot Hawley Act made the Great Depression worst. However, it also takes an absolutist view…
Yves here. The US Postal Service has been in Republican crosshairs for a long time but Trump looks as if he will be able to achieve the pet aim of…
The launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 was an epochal event in the history of technology. Because this feat was accomplished by the USSR at the height of the…
Yves here. This article gives a high-level overview of Trump’s economic policies. It argues they weren’t a mystery, even though Trump didn’t talk meaningfully on the stump about tariffs or…
Yves here. It’s become commonplace to depict Trump’s economic policies as a radical departure from recent trajectory. Michael Hudson begs to differ. He explains why the seemingly novel part, the…