The fracking industry’s wastewater disposal is an unrecognized production and economic problem that is going from bad to worse.
Read more...How Dodd-Frank left banks’ massive lending and safety-net subsidies intact.
Read more...BIS chief economist Claudio Borio warns that central bankers have overdone the liquidity party, and investors are not being paid enough to take ris
Read more...The upcoming IPCC report overview is being airbrushed so as to cut unwarranted slack to developed economies.
Read more...The first set of of four negotiating sessions to produce a UN treaty on the high seas by 2020 concluded last week in New York; this would extend the existing law of the sea framework beyond each nation’s territorial waters.
Read more...In winning the trade battle with China, Trump may lose the war against inflation.
Read more...Brexit negotiations are over. The only question is whether the EU and UK continue to expend energy talking past each other.
Read more...Derivatives remain an untamed systemic risk.
Read more...How “Green New Deal” proponents repeat the intellectual errors made by the critics of the 1970s Limits to Growth studies.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses the economic impact of not writing down debts in the wake of the crisis.
Read more...New bad facts on world hunger.
Read more...Eyewitness accounts of Florence and its aftermath.
Read more...Why you should take conventional wisdom about the Lehman collapse and the crisis with a fistful of salt.
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. During Naked Capitalism’s comment holiday, Yves and I also visited the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (CMBG), “Maine’s Premier Botanical Garden,” which it is! From their site: In just ten short years, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has become one of the largest public gardens in the country, ranking among the top […]
Read more...Follow the subsidies, and you will understand why we had the crisis and why not enough has been done to prevent a recurrence.
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