One month after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana, infrastructure and “build back better” talk ignores survival needs on climate crisis frontlines
Read more...Consumers have made big changed to their spending patterns in response to inflation.
Read more...The effort to get the House to rubber-stamp a $1.5 trillion Senate-dictated infrastructure bill has gone pear-shaped.
Read more...It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
Read more...Thomas Piketty and Micheal Hudson address “What is debt,” and also address inequality, rentierism, and reform in the West and China.
Read more...Why the vaccine-focused approach is not likely to develop necessarily to the advantage of the Biden Administration.
Read more...Even as evidence mounts that moving faster to clean energy sources would benefit businesses and the planet, the usual suspects fight back.
Read more...Rising energy prices in the US look set to go higher.
Read more...A look at how Covid has damaged the economy and estimating the effect.
Read more...Why are so many young men giving up on college?
Read more...Whether by accident or design, the implosion of China’s Evergrande will take some air out of its inflated real estate sector. What then?
Read more...Yves here. If humans are fortunate enough merely to suffer a Jackpot rather than a full-bore collapse, perhaps future historians will try to make sense of why individuals and governments did pretty much squat to prevent climate change even when they recognized it really was well underway and would produce very bad outcomes. I imagine […]
Read more...Seniors are destined to lose ground with cost of living increases, but how badly will they lag with 2022’s seemingly large boost?
Read more...A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...An increase in perceived uncertainty does indeed increase the value of waiting, thus reducing job creation.
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