Private Equity Now Owns 1 in 8 Apartment Units, a 50 Percent Increase Since 2021
Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent.
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The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Vampira (1971) Run Time: 44M Bonus: Tangerine Dream
Vampira is a movie about a very strange household indeed.
Read more...Lavrov Elaborated on the US’ Plans To Eternally Control the EU’s Energy Market
How the US is on the way to making the EU even more captured vassals by controlling critical energy supplies.
Read more...The US Just Went Full Orwellian on Cuba and Argentina
Washington is resorting to industrial-scale lies to justify its escalating collective punishment of Cuba as well as its latest power grab in Argentina.
Read more...Climate Denier Group Pushes States to Embrace Coal Power for Data Centers
Moneyed interests are linking support of two bête noires, coal and data centers, to better shove them down voters’ throats
Read more...Holiday Coverage Note
I hope you get a break this weekend (for those living where Monday is a a holiday). We will kick a a bit too.
Read more...Establishment Democrats Still Don’t Get Why They Lost in 2024
Democrats can’t face that they don’t have a message because having one with broad appeal would alienate too many powerful factions.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Global Economy – A Very Uncertain Future!
Satyajit Das looks at the big stressors on the global economy and find that governments will be unable to do much to alleviate them.
Read more...Norway Wants To Lead a “Viking Bloc” for Containing Russia in Northern Europe
Norway seeks to lead a small but arguably well-located group of nations to impede Russia. Yes, seriously.
Read more...Why Public Policy’s Core Value Should Be Equality
Humans have a strong, evolution-based desire for fairness and equality, yet they are more and more neglected in policy design.
Read more...Michael Hudson Warns: Imminent Economic Catastrophe – War, Oil Crisis & Bond Market Panic
Michael Hudson explains how the financier-friendly medicine of higher interest rates will only make the impending economic crisis worse.
Read more...Are People Just “Lower-Value Human Capital”?
In case you did not get the memo, human capital is now officially inferior.
Read more...US-Israeli Plan to Neo-Colonise Latin America Hits Resistance in Bolivia
The surname of Bolivia’s president, Rodrigo Paz, translates as “peace”, as does the name of Bolivia’s capital city, La Paz. But there is nothing peaceful about Bolivia right now.
Read more...Seasonal Patterns That Farmers Trusted for Generations Have Suddenly Turned Unpredictable
Intense rains, extreme heat, and unstoppable pests are wiping out crops and farmers’ livelihoods as climate change scrambles the weather.
Read more...Coffee Break: Primaries, Redistricting Reveal American Political Fault Lines
A series of primary races and the national partisan fight over mid-decade redistricting are revealing the deep fault lines dividing both American political parties.
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