Category Archives: Guest Post
Is Mexico’s AMLO Willing to Walk Away from USMCA?
As the Mexican government’s commitment to energy independence smashes into US financial interests, President López Obrador threatens to put sovereignty first.
Read more...How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals
REITs are considered “passive” investors but play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like hospitals
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Read more...Air Travel and Covid in the Biden “Let ‘Er Rip” Era: A Personal Risk Assessment
Safety in the air and on the ground.
Read more...Links 8/1/2022
Murky World of Carbon Offsets Faces Greater Scrutiny
Draft standards drawn up by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market aim to tighten up a notoriously opaque sector.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong
Looking at inflation through a class warfare lens.
Read more...Robert Smithson, Creator of “Spiral Jetty” and the Artist for the Jackpot?
A perambulation through the works of “land artist” Robert Smithson.
Read more...Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care
Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.
Read more...Book Review: A Global History of the Black Death
In “The World the Plague Made,” James Belich argues that the Black Death had a profound impact beyond Europe.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/29/2022
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Monotonous Lark, Limpopo, South Africa. I’m not sure if this is a duet, or an echo. * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” […]
Read more...The Future of Global Catastrophic Risk Events from Climate Change
U.N.: Climate change is causing extreme events that can kill > 10 million or lead to > $10 trillion in damages, threatening societal collapse
Read more...The First Ever Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) of a Largish Economy, Nigeria’s eNaira, Is Already Floundering
After being launched to great fanfare in October 2021, Nigeria’s eNaira has so far had minimal impact on the country’s economy and citizens.
Read more...Michael Hudson: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
American policies have become astonishingly obvious about not simply putting the US first, but also exploiting supposed partners to do so.
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