Category: Economy

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Merry Christmas, readers! –lambert P.S. I will take Christmas Day off, and return the following day, in full form or not, depending. P.P.S Stay safe…

“Both the USMCA and this ruling issued by the trade dispute panel are designed primarily to protect the interests of transnational corporations.” This development, announced Friday, is as depressing as…

Yves here. This post describes the rising opposition in the US and around the world to Israel land grabs. Yet it is clear that anything other than the use of…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers: Yes, as we enter the holiday season, I’m going to lighten up on Water Cooler (which is hard, because the world doesn’t stop…

By Ellen Welti, a community ecologist working on grassland insects and plants. She is part of the Great Plains Science Program, based in the prairies of north central Montana. She…

Dear patient readers, We at Naked Capitalism trust you have a festive or at least a restful holiday season in store. The members of this team, as we customarily do,…

Malaysia to resume hunt for flight MH370, 10 years after it vanished Channel News Asia Everything sucks because no one knows what they are doing Dougald Lamont’s Substack Chartbook 340…

By Ava Caradonna. Originally published at OpenDemocracy.  Anora, this year’s feisty update on the 1990 film Pretty Woman, has become something of a critical darling. It premiered at the Cannes…

Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls to help the economy, experts say.

Yves here. Rajiv Sethi describes a fascinating, large-scale study of social media behavior. It looked at “toxic content” which is presumably actual or awfully close to what is often called…