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…
Yves here. I trust you will enjoy Michael Hudson’s forward to a new translation of a remarkable old book, Heinrich Schurtz’s Origins of Money. You can download both Hudson’s text…
Yves here. This post describes yet another way the US squandered its unipolar moment. Rather than try to build a more stable world order, the US instead tried to secure…
Oddly, even Russia-sympathetic commentators seem loath to take Putin and other top Russia officials at their word with respect to Ukraine. Russia’s demand for no NATO, no way, no how,…
The day after the Wall Street Journal ran Why This Frothy Market Has Me Scared, it published More Men Are Addicted to the ‘Crack Cocaine’ of the Stock Market. We…
Yves here. Angry Bear called our attention to this Trump tax cuts post, and also helpfully added some charts from its linked sources, which we are also including. Even though…
America’s economy is far outstripping its peers, but there are serious risks, including from the president-elect.
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