Category Archives: Guest Post
Wolf Richter: What a Collapse of China’s Evergrande Would Mean
By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. Foreign investors piled into the property sector over the years, buying hundreds of billions of dollars in bonds, including dollar bonds issued by China’s property developers. They bought those bonds because they liked those yields, in some cases over 10%, thinking that the […]
Read more...Matt Stoller: #OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
Trying to clear up the rear-view-mirror takes on OccupyWallStreet, ten years later.
Read more...Can the Economy Afford NOT To Fight Climate Change?
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...Global Coral Coverage Down by Half Since the 1950s
Coral reefs worldwide are facing impacts from climate change, overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution.
Read more...Links 9/19/2021
A Football World Cup Every Two Years? An Expert Runs the Numbers
FIFA has floated a proposal to hold the football World Cup every two years rather than every four. Will the overall effect be a positive one for Fifa’s income?
Read more...Links 9/18/2021
Covax Misses its 2021 Delivery Target – What’s Gone Wrong in the Fight Against Vaccine Nationalism?
Conversation.
The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely.
US Urged to End Drone Strikes After Pentagon Says Killing 10 Afghan Civilians Was ‘Horrible Mistake’
“That was not a ‘mistake,'” said journalist Anand Giridharadas. “War crimes are not oopsies.”
Read more...Musical Interlude: Fathers and Sons
Rick Beato; Bruce Springsteen
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Spanish Government Infuriates Energy Giants By Making Them Pay for Soaring Electricity Prices
In retaliation, the energy companies have even threatened to shut down nuclear plants, which would decimate Spain’s energy supplies.
Read more...Links 9/17/2021
The Symptoms Show American Culture Is Transitioning into a Violent Oligarchy
We are witnessing today in America the symptoms of a culture going through the early stages of transition from pluralistic democracy to violent oligarchy.
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