Brexit: Stumbling
More Brexit posturing, but also some hardening of positions when both sides would need to give to get a deal.
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NYC Landlords Suing Pandemic-Slammed Small Businesses by the Hundreds for Missed Rent
Pandemic-starved businesses are facing off against landlords who want rent paid. New York City illustrates some of the legal and practical issues.
Read more...As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
Yves here. It’s only early December and doctors and nurses are already exhausted. The grim figures in this article are already dated; Covid hospitalization just hit a new high of 100,000 in the US. How are hospitals going to keep their troops from falling over? The earliest time when conditions might be better than now […]
Read more...Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.
Read more...Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Read more...Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Little Brexit motion and less progress as the clock runs.
Read more...Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
How the Saudi Aramco IPO has become a financial millstone.
Read more...Brexit: Decisions
The Brexit trade talks illustrate that not deciding amounts to a decision.
Read more...Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
Trump kicks Yemen.
Read more...You and I May Never Summit Everest But Microplastics Already Have
Microsplastics have been found on the summit of Mount Everest; Seems no place, even earth’s most remote locations, is witout this scourge.
Read more...“Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions
COVID-19 provides a chance to reassess our relationship with flying, a major source of global emissions.
Read more...Nick Corbishley: Bankruptcy Looms As Cash-Starved UK Local Councils’ High-Risk Real Estate Bets Sour
UK councils were already in trouble due to austerity, inflated charges for services, and mismanagement. Covid is set to generate bankruptcies
Read more...Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic
Absent immediate and drastic action to limit plastics use, global emissions will increase as incineration is used for waste disposal.
Read more...2020 “Globie”: The Carry Trade
A recent book focuse on the role of the carry trade in increasing financialization and instabilty.
Read more...Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium
Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.
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