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Marshall Auerback: What US Treasury Yields Might Be Signalling

Bond yields warn of deflation. How real is this worry?

2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle

How tight linkages among phenomena, such as oil and commodity prices, and flagging non-elite wages, are about to cause substantial economic disruption.

China’s Contradictory Aims, Greater International Role Versus Domestic Economic Control, HIt Breaking Point

China appears to be in denial that it can’t have more open financial markets and maintain the same degree of control over the economy that it once enjoyed.

TTIP and Climate Change: Low Economic Benefits, Real Climate Risks

The TTIP could jeopardize the ability of the European Union and the United States to put in place the proper regulations to meet climate targets.

Identifying Vectors Influencing China’s (and International) Markets

A list of some of the factors driving the recent market upheaval in China. Readers will hopefully add to and refine this compilation.

Deflation Denialism: No, Chancellor, 0.5% Inflation is Not “Welcome News”

What is deflation? What has caused inflation to fall? And why is there no such thing as ‘good deflation’?

Puerto Rico Defaults a Second Time; Claims of “Scheming” Designed to Crush Island Citizens

Puerto Rico fails to pay $37.3 million in bonds due today. While investors and analysts call it a bluff, the stakes are quite real.

Private Equity Made Bad Bet on Ships, Hit by Collapse in China Trade

Private equity’s misadventure in ships is yet another proof of both hubris and too much money looking for deals.

Louis Proyect: Greece as Rashomon

Like Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”, the story of Syriza is also one about a rape told from different, self-serving and contradictory perspectives.

Ilargi: 2016 Is An Easy Year To Predict

Deflation will become an even more powerful and destructive force in 2016.

10 Foods That May Disappear Thanks to Climate Change

If you think climate change will help food production, think again. Many of the foods under threat are dietary staples.

How Prefunding Retiree Health Benefits Impacts the Postal Service’s Bottom Line – and How Brookings Got it Wrong

Exposing the serious numerical and conceptual flaws of yet another study that uses the trumped-up claim that the Postal Service is trouble to justify dismembering it.

Will China Be the Enforcer of the Paris Climate Agreement?

Yves here. While China has made impressive strides in technologies that reduce carbon emissions, I have trouble squaring that with their plans to build more coal-fired electricity generating plants. By Gaius Publius, a professional writer living on the West Coast of the United States and frequent contributor to DownWithTyranny, digby, Truthout, and Naked Capitalism. Follow […]