China’s Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs): Ponzi Finance on Steroids
How China’s local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) became China’s most complex economic challenge.
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Ukraine Plan of Crocus City Hall Attack to Start Ethnic Pogroms, Civil War in Russia
An in-depth discussion of the apparent Ukraine/Western plan to use the Crocus City Hall massacre to stoke ethnic hostilities in Russia.
Read more...Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks − Countries Facing Extreme Heat May Try It Anyway, and the World Needs to be Prepared
Like it or not, climate engineering is coming. What are some of the implications?
Read more...“On a Relative Scale, There’s a Strong Case that Financialization Is Worse in the PRC than the US”
On a relative basis, China is more financialized than the US which is not a pretty picture.
Read more...The Energy Transition: Technology Versus Political Backlash
A look at some of the reasons why the energy transition is running behind schedule.
Read more...Paris Wants to Show Strength, but Faces Geopolitical Crisis in Africa
A status report on France losing its hold in Africa.
Read more...Yellen Trip to China: Biden Administration Presumption and Cluelessness on Display
The US is at it again with China, despite acting like it wants to repair fractured relations.
Read more...The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack Up Its War and Go Home
The US is being run out of Niger. A lot of our “hegemon forever” spending is going down the drain.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Greece, EU Elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN Interview with David Broder
Varoufakis weighs in on topics of keen interest: the looting of Greece, then and now, the European left, and Palestine.
Read more...A Simple Desultory Analytic (Or How I Was Peter Turchin’d Into Perdition) by “I lost my harmonica albrt”
A discussion of Peter Turchin’s End Times: Elites Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s New Cold War
A reminder of how Germany has committed economic suicide rather than say “no” to the US.
Read more...Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement
Instead of closing schools, many communities are pushing their districts to think about schools differently.
Read more...Yellen Plans To Confront China For ‘Unfair’ Clean Energy Subsidies
Treasury Secretary Yellen is complaining to China about allegedly improper green energy subsidies. But is her beef well founded?
Read more...Tweaking US Trade Policy Could Hold the Key to Reducing Migration from Central America
How much of a role did a mid-2000s Central America trade deal play in the migration surge to the US from the region?
Read more...IMF, in a Quiet Slap to the US, Urges Non-Alignment in Second Cold War
When you’ve lost the IMF…..
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