UK Asks the Rest of the World to Be Super Duper Nice and Act as Its Old Deals Are Still Valid Post Brexit
Yet another Brexit train wreck.
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Will Upcoming Brexit Negotiation Round Finally Cause Hard Core Brexiter Heads To Explode?
Brexit screeching gets ever louder as it becomes harder to keep reality at bay.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Trump’s Financial Arsonists
How Trump’s financial deregulators are arranging more gimmies to banks.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Do Mainstream Democrats Really Want to Eliminate Carbon Emissions and Fossil Fuel Use?
Following the money tells you how serious mainstream Democrats are about tackling climate change….not.
Read more...Gaius Publius: 2017 Breaks Climate Records Despite No “El Niño Boost”
Yet more sobering news on the climate change front.
Read more...UK Political Pressures Rise….Because EU Does Exactly What It Has Been Saying It Would Do on Brexit
When you think the UK has made as much of a mess of Brexit as it possibly can, it manages to do even more.
Read more...Latest Tory Brexit Row: Another Bun Fight or a Cage Match?
More Brexit hissing and spitting from the Tories.
Read more...EU Makes Limited Move on Plastics: Too Little, Too Late?
EU requires recycling plastics packaging by 2030, reducing single-use plastics, and restricting microplastics. Too little, too late?
Read more...Puerto Rico: Post-Hurricane Maria Relief Effort Omnishambles Rolls On
Puerto Rico’s recovery: Grid materiel, the exodus and cheap labor, the relief loan, and oddly trivial disaster capitalism.
Read more...The Long-Term Care Crisis: Premiums Exploding, Leaving Seniors With “An Awful Choice”
More on the long-term care insurance train wreck.
Read more...Why Urban Farming Is Key in the Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change
How urban farming can help alleviate food stress and buffer climate pressures.
Read more...Hawaii Nuke Scare Due to Lousy User Interface
Bad software played a leading role in the Hawaii nuclear panic of last weekend.
Read more...Brexit: UK Still Refusing to Do Any Thinking Re Trade
The UK is going nowhere fast on Brexit, except it is trying even harder than before to blame the EU for its problems.
Read more...ECB Spawned Financial Dependency That’s Now Very Hard to Undo
The ECB is very eager to withdraw extraordinary support. But among others, a lot of weak banks are hooked on it.
Read more...Meltdown and Spectre: Intel’s Seismic IT Disaster and A Look at Some Implication for Banks
A first look at the epic IT disaster of the Meltdown and Spectre “flaws”.
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