Category Archives: Guest Post

Coming Attraction: IPCC’s Upcoming Major Climate Assessment

Another set of blockbuster IPCC reports are in the works. What to expect?

“Build Back Better” Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility

Why Biden’s “Build Back Better” could make a big difference for what was once the American middle class….charitably assuming he meant it.

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/06/2021

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. My old iPad with the cracked screen finally failed today. I had kept on using it, and not the new one I bought after the first crack appeared, because I never updated the credit credit card number on it, and after a bank takeover, that card is no longer valid, […]

The End Of The Embargo Against Qatar

The rollback of the Qatar embargo is a small positive development as Team Trump is exiting.

Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021

Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.

You Don’t Want to Imagine an Ocean Without Coral Reefs—But You Might Have To

The latest reading on the slow-motions deaths of coral reefs.

2021: Year of Living Dangerously?

Does the West recognize how many emerging economies are dangerously close to breaking points? Can they control their bad neoliberal reflexes?

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/05/2021

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Workers’ Wages: The Next Frontier in the Financialization of Just About Everything

As the virus crisis bites deeper and deeper into workers’ wages and household finances, big money is pouring into workplace finance initiatives.

Google Rigged Its Own Advertising Auction In Favor of Facebook for a Price (and What That Means for the So-Called Free Market)

Google fiddles with the weights and measures of commerce.

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/04/2021

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