Trump, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: What We Know, What We Don’t, and the Dangers Ahead
A closer look at how the West avoided war over the last alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad, in 2013. Can saner heads prevail again?
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Philippines President Duterte Orders Troops to Occupy South China Sea “Islands”
Philippines’ President Duterte decides to hot things up a bit in the simmering South China Sea hostilities.
Read more...US Launches Airstrikes Against Syria (Updated)
The US has just attacked Syria. Unless the Russians abandon Syria, this looks like the war the neocons wanted.
Read more...Italian Banks: Not Quiet on the Eastern Front
Never before have I seen the condition of a bank’s finances (in this case liquidity) described as “hemorrhagic”. Italians beware!
Read more...Ilargi: Our Economies Run On Housing Bubbles
A look at the long-term role of home price bubbles in multiple countries.
Read more...Why Has Italy’s Banking Crisis Gone Off the Radar?
An update on Italy’s festering bank crisis.
Read more...Settling the Brexit Bill: 12 Negotiating Questions
Sorting out the principles for in the Brexit talks for how to compute the UK’s departure tab is not trivial.
Read more...Inequality Update: Who Gains When Income Grows?
In a perverse reversal of historical norms, more growth produces more inequality as a result of economic policy and changes in legal rights.
Read more...MIchael Hudson: The Democracy Collaborative
Michael Hudson gives new riffs on his regular themes: classical economics and its perversion by Hayek, rentier capitalism, debt jubilees.
Read more...The American Opioid Epidemic
More discussion of the possible causes and implications of the opioid epidemic.
Read more...Magnus: China Must Reform or Bust
China’s debt markets are looking more and more like the West, circa 2007. And it’s not clear the government can intervene as successfully.
Read more...Commercial & Residential Real Estate Bubble Again a Risk to Financial Stability; Fed’s Rosengren Worried
Real estate is again looking like a ticking time bomb. At super low interest rates, pray tell what does the Fed do if it blows up again?
Read more...Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China?
Why Amazon will destroy a lot more jobs.
Read more...Doubling Down on Dystopia
What dystopian novels and narratives say– and fail to grasp– about the triumph of Trump’s will.
Read more...Deutsche Bank Tries to Stay Alive
Deutsche Bank is still walking wounded.
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