Greenland Ice Sheet Melting 600 Percent Faster Than Predicted by Current Models
The faster-than-expected melt of the Greenland ice sheet is yet another example of climate models proving to be too conservative.
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Rex Tillerson Backs Aggressive Policy in Disputed South China Sea as Exxon, Russia Eye Region’s Oil and Gas
Oil may be a big reason behind the Trump Administration’s aggressive stance towards China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Read more...Ilargi: Unrest Is The Only Growth Industry Left
Get used to unrest as part of the volatile new normal.
Read more...Trumping Capitalism?
Will Trump change capitalism, and if so, how?
Read more...Bill Black: Not 4 Sale – Why the Corrupt, Worker-Hating New Democrats Must Be Purged
Why the corporate and finance funded, labor-loathing New Democrats have been a disaster for the party and America and need to go.
Read more...Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America’s Crisis
The elites think they can hide from the pending collapse of civilization.
Read more...America’s Coming Water Affordability Crisis
A symptom of pressure on water quality and supply: over 40 million American citizens may be unable to afford water in the next five years.
Read more...Ending Too Big to Fail
Yves here. Remember the explosion of press coverage last year when incoming Minneapolis Fed member and former Goldmanite and Treasury official Neel Kashkari announced his intent to develop a plan to end the “too big to fail” problem. He not only was going to devote Minneapolis Fed researchers to his program, but solicited broad based […]
Read more...Bill Black: Obama Loved Austerity and the New Democrats Remain Addicted to It
Black blasts Obama for prescribing austerity and presenting it as good for Americans when it is good only for financiers and the rich.
Read more...The California Drought Is on Its Way Out, but Deeper Droughts Lie Ahead
California regularly leads national trends. Water scarcity is a prime example.
Read more...More on the Economic Hardship of Young Adults
Young adults have had a very rough go and don’t have good reason to expect their economic condition to improve much.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Who’s Blackmailing the President & Why Aren’t Democrats Upset About It?
The CIA tries a ham-handed stunt to blackmail Trump and Democrats applaud. This is too close for comfort to an attack on democratic rule.
Read more...How To Balance Sovereignty and Integration in a Voluntary EU
Why is the EU project in trouble and what might be done to fix it?
Read more...House Passes Koch Brothers-Backed REINS Act that Weakens Gov’t Regulatory Agencies
How the stealthy REINS Act would hamstring all Federal regulators.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: How Finance Is Starving Yemen
Who is backing and profiting from the Saudi campaign for mass extermination in Yemen?
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