Trump Using Failed Australian “Asset Recycling” to Justify Mass Privatizations
Why would Trump adopt a foreign model for infrastructure that even conservatives deemed a failure? Apparently for the looting.
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Slugging It Out With a New Contender in the GMOs Debate
One of the big benefits claimed for GMOs may be false.
Read more...Climate Change: “It Depends on How We They Value Time”
Why conventional economic approaches give dangerously misguided answers when applied to climate change.
Read more...Despite Wobbles, Theresa May Still Expected to Lead Conservative Win This Week
Despite Theresa May looking at risk in many UK polls, the distribution of seats in play may give the Tories the advantage.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: U.S. & Russia Bomb Syria’s Civilians When They Could Help End its War
Analyzes developments in Syria and says war could end if the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Iran were willing to make an agreement. If only.
Read more...Starved School Budgets Across the US: A Symptom of Education Funding Crisis
School budgets are in worse shape in many parts of the US than you might have imagined.
Read more...Don Quijones: Shock Waves Spread from Spain’s New Banking Crisis
Market consequences of latest banking crisis in Spain, triggered by the collapse of housing prices that caused plunge Banco Popular shares to plunge.
Read more...Why International Financial Crises?
Despite the high cost of financial crises, the world seems no closer to making needed reforms.
Read more...Who Will Take America’s Place in Asia?
A look at America’s misguided Asia policies.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Dear Fed, It’s Not “Really Hard to Spot Bubbles”
Here are some visual aids to help the Fed spot the housing bubble.
Read more...New York Attorney General: Feds Must Address Bakken Crude Oil Bomb Trains. Feds: Maybe Later?
Both parties share credit for the continued failure to impose limits on the volatility of crude oil transported by rail.
Read more...Why Withdrawal or “Tiny” Living Isn’t a Solution to Sustainability
Tiny but isolated living may not be doing the planet as much of a favor as many like to believe.
Read more...The New New Deal
The myth of the virtues of markets is past its sell-by date. Time for a new guiding principle, and the New Deal may be the place to start.
Read more...Don Quijones: Catalonia Threatens Spain with “Financial Bloodbath”
Yet another European debt/austerity-induced game of chicken, this one of Catalonia v. Spain.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Globalization of Misery
A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
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