Another example of Ukraine war blowback on the West: banking costs rose and lending tightened due to the sanctions on Russia.
Read more...The damage to Ukraine’s grid is already so serious and hard to remedy that its future as a failed state is close to certain.
Read more...Trump’s Greenland climbdown is yet another sign of how his derangedness is becoming more and more destabilizing.
Read more...An industry participant debunks a paper predicting that the labor market effect of AI will be so bright that we will all have to wear shades.
Read more...A new climate change fix of sustainable limits bizarrely hypes that collective groups will decide, ignoring power and wealth inequality
Read more...A look at the overly-large, internally conflicted role of the Federal Reserve and Trump’s dodgy aims in trying to bring it under his control.
Read more...ICE Nation is good for surveillance tech and private prisons. Not so much for other sectors—but is there a plan in place to make them whole again?
Read more...Though it seems highly unlikely given weak and incompetent leadership in Europe, it has cards to play to stymie Trump’s Greenland grab.
Read more...It has gotten through to Trump that the state of the economy, and particularly consumer suffering from persistently high costs, aka the affordability crisis, can’t be solved by his barker’s patter about how great things are. So he’s roused himself to try to find some quick and easy wins so he can present himself as […]
Read more...How America’s liberal immigration regime was a predictable result of how we decide elections.
Read more...Most economic analysis of Trump’s planned Venezuela oil heist has focused on production. Time for a wee look at refining.
Read more...More on Trump’s plans to annex Greenland.
Read more...How justifications for US foreign and economic policy revolve around the oil trade.
Read more...A look at a Trump pretext for taking Greenland: its significant stores of oil, gas, and minerals, with the vast majority still underground.
Read more...Trump pursues another own goal by escalating with Fed chair Powell over his refusal to lower interest rates by launching a criminal probe.
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