Trump’s Offshore Oil Drilling Plans Ignore the Lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
Offshore drilling is dangerous to workers, wildlife, and the public. The Trump Administration is happy to keep it that way to boost profits.
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Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
Read more...Financial Stability Regulations: A (Non) Progress Report
A survey of major financial reform initiatives finds they have been insufficient. That’s not an accident.
Read more...Gaius Publius: New Study Evaluates Climate Models — Best Ones Also Show the Most Global Warming
A new study of the performance models shows more convincingly than ever that we are cooking our collective goose.
Read more...The Bitcoin Bubble
As bitcoin has become a mania, it is also becoming a risk to the real economy.
Read more...EU’s Michel Barnier Clears Throat to Tell the UK It Won’t Get a Special Deal…After God Knows How Many EU Leaders Have Already Said That
The EU is still making a lot of noise to get the UK to begin to hear things the EU has been saying since the morning after the Brexit vote.
Read more...More Climate Change Refugees Means More Walls
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that since the early 2000s, Defense Department analyses have been anticipating climate-change-induced mass migrations. As this post describes, they are happening at at an accelerating pace. By Todd Miller, who has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and the NACLA Report on […]
Read more...Benign Effects of Automation: New Evidence from Patent Texts
A new study on automation suggests that even if the robots are coming for your job, they create even more jobs.
Read more...Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future
The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.
Read more...Daniel Ellsberg: U.S. Military Planned Nuclear First Strike On Every City In Russia and China … and Gave Many Low-Level Field Commanders the Power to Push the Button
Daniel Ellsberg reveals that the authority to launch nuclear first strikes has long been widely distributed. So who has that authority now?
Read more...DUP Humiliates May, Extends Freeze on Talks as Hard Core Brexiters Fume
Brexit talks are at a complete impasse. That is probably a good thing.
Read more...Germany’s Dystopian Plans for Europe: From Fantasy to Reality?
For Germany, the idea of Europeanism has allowed its elites to conceal their hegemonic project behind the veil of ‘European integration’.
Read more...Brexit’s Irish Checkmate
Brexit talks and Theresa May are in serious trouble.
Read more...Q & A: What Price Do We Put on Our Oceans?
Interview with Erik Solheim, on agenda for UN Environment Assembly, starting tomorrow, that will discuss measures to clean up the oceans.
Read more...Japan’s Tight Labor Market Generates Deflation…
Puzzling over Japan’s super low unemployment with continued deflation.
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