The housing market is starting to unravel at the lower end, with new home purchases taking the biggest hit.
Read more...As if tornadoes weren’t bad enough, you now need to add the derecho to your summer weather risks.
Read more...How long-established structures are approaching breakdown, yet those in charge try to look past that.
Read more...This column shows that rising cereal prices pose an elevated risk of violence in Africa, where agriculture represents a large share of the economy
Read more...Michael Hudson looks at the long game of fundamental ecomomic restructuring of trade and financial relations among great powers.
Read more...Some odd ideas about what Russia ought to be doing in Ukraine.
Read more...Mr. Market had a meltdown because retailers were unable to pass on all their cost increases. What’s a capitalist to do?
Read more...Congess is rousing itself to make health care employers Do Something to protect staff from violence….but is the legislation adequate?
Read more...The development and future of America’s hegemony is a major focus of Michael Hudson’s new book, The Destiny of Civilization.
Read more...Countries around the world will suffer from central bank malpractice as the Fed and its peers act as if they can treat supply side inflation
Read more...Yet another reason to dispense with disposable coffee cups: nanoplastics, which are ingested when the coffee is drunk. The health implications of their ubiquity is unknown and has not yet been well-studied.
Read more...After four bleaching events in the last seven years, is it too late to save the Great Barrier Reef? Time is running out to get serious about climate change.
Read more...Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.
Read more...In “How to Sell a Poison,” Elena Conis chronicles the history of DDT and its lasting impact.
Read more...Once hailed as South Asia’s ‘success story’, Sri Lanka has faced months of escalating violent unrest.
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