Italy’s Political Crisis….How Ugly Might It Get?
Identifying issues that may influence how Italy’s political crisis over the rejection of a Lega Nord-5 Star economy minister plays out.
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Stock Market Borrowing at All Time High, Increasing Risk of Downdrafts
I find it hard to get excited about stock market risks unless defaults on the borrowings can damage the banking/payments system, as they did in the Great Crash. This is one reason the China perma-bears have a point: even though the Chinese government has managed to do enough in the way of rescues and warnings […]
Read more...Don Quijones: Which Banks Are Most Exposed to Italy’s Sovereign Debt? (Other than the Horribly Exposed Italian Banks)
“Doom loop” begins to exact its pound of flesh.
Read more...The Carbon Bubble and the Pricing of Bank Loans
Neglecting the possibility that fossil fuel reserves can become ‘stranded’ could result in a ‘carbon bubble’ as fossil fuel firms become overvalued.
Read more...How Institutional Dysfunction Has Enabled Poor Economic Policy Thinking
How economic research practices and the role of academic journals helped create and reinforced an orthodoxy that was able to miss that the crisis was coming.
Read more...Will TSB Ever Be Completely Fixed?
TSB’s IT meltdown has dissappeared from mainstream media headlines. But is that the end of the story?
Read more...Playing Trump for Peace: How the Korean Peninsula Could Become a Bright Spot in a World Gone Mad
John Feffer focuses on how the US should allow the Koreans can do the real work, the historic work, the breakthrough work, of knitting the peninsula back together.
Read more...Bitcoin Energy Use Growing Much Faster than Previously Thought
Bitcoin energy use alarmists are being proven right.
Read more...Yet More Brexit Idiocy: Cabinet Thinks Begging to Stay in Customs Union Will Solve Irish Border Problem
The UK is now trying to marry up two unworkable Brexit ideas and call it a solution.
Read more...Corbyn Backs Hard Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn links arms with Theresa May on Brexit.
Read more...Michael Klare: Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War
Thinking about the now-too-thinkable: what a new Gulf War would look like.
Read more...Brexit: Crisis Nigh
Brexit crunch time is approaching fast.
Read more...Colorado River: The Water War That Will Decide the Fate of 1 in 8 Americans
Water wars loom on the horizon, arising from overuse for generations of the Colorado River, which carved the Grand Canyon and serves as the main water source for much of the American West.
Read more...Reader Inquiry: How’s Your Climate?
Seeking reader observations on the impact of climate change in their environs.
Read more...#TSBFail: MPs Barely Lay a Glove on CEO Pester, Who Discredits Himself All on His Own
Even with a mere wet-noodle lashing by MPs, TSB came off pretty badly in Parliament.
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