The Spanish banking giant doesn’t appear to have heard of the Streisand effect. Or perhaps it considers itself immune from its fallout
Read more...Ratings agency downgrades of Israel confirm that its economy is taking hits and will suffer even more damage under a long war.
Read more...California’s new rule mandates Covid infection, violates California’s Adminstrative Procedures Act, and its stated purpose is not justified by statute.
Read more...How two of the Euro’s principal designers initiated a process that led to what at least one of them, Wolfgang Schäuble, saw as a bad end
Read more...Biden taps the brakes on LNG expansion. A sop to environmentalists or a sign of things to come?
Read more...The Covid pandemic and the quantity and quality of labor available in the labor market (with an encouraging medieval precedent).
Read more...Some concrete proposals for how to slip the yoke of neoliberalism and start building a fairer and more functional economy.
Read more...Trying to make sense of the US’ dangerously confused behavior in the Middle East.
Read more...The impact is likely to be significant for a country that is already reeling from an economic crisis and whose government is in the process of unleashing yet another round of IMF-approved austerity. Almost exactly a month ago, Ecuador’s US-born and -raised, son-of-a-billionaire president, Daniel Noboa, announced his controversial decision to deliver outdated weapons of […]
Read more...Net-zero is staring to look like a big zero. Not at all good news to those who would like this planet to be hospitable in 100 years.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Central bankers fret about inflation, but the far more destructive deflation may become a treat.
Read more...Why Lenin was right.
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