Climate Change Lawsuits Increase Globally
Climate change litigation is increasing globally from initial US origins. These legal actions will continue to grow as the crisis accelerates.
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Is There a Global Future for Unions?
A personal retrospective on the forces driving the rise and decline (and hopeful revival) of unions.
Read more...A World Without Ice
Looking at the impact of the loss of ice in nature.
Read more...Deutsche Bank Highlights a Society at Risk
Why the erosion of personal standards has become a collective risk.
Read more...Michael Hudson: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Michael Hudson on how the US was able to turn its change from creditor to debtor to its advantage.
Read more...Hospitals Block ‘Surprise Billing’ Measure In California
Hospitals flex their muscles and the public loses.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/11/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Cargill, Harris, Sanders, Gravel, Epstein fallout, Adolph Reed interview, AOC v. Pelosi, Amy McGrath v. Mitch McConnel, consumer price index, jobless claims, Bank of America, Tesla’s robot cars, Google eavesdropping, Twitter algos, Boeing 737, trees, suburbs, MMT, Oklahoma!
Read more...A Way Out from Rock Bottom: Economic Policies Can Reduce Deaths of Despair
Looking at how specific income-boosting policies reduce deaths.
Read more...It Is Time To Start Forgiving Student Loans – And Here Is What It Will Cost
A far-ranging plan for cleaning up the student loan mess.
Read more...Transfer (Mis)pricing, the Jewel in Every Multinational Enterprise’s Crown
Transfer pricing: How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.
Read more...Recycling Woes: Indonesia Sends Waste Shipment Back to Australia
Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.
Read more...Links 7/10/19
‘Completely Terrifying’: Study Warns Carbon-Saturated Oceans Headed Toward Tipping Point That Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event
Carbon levels could be approaching a threshold that could trigger ocean acidification similar to that which contributed to previous mass extinction events.
Read more...Is Industrial Policy Finally Legitimate?
Awfully late in the game, industrial policy gets the recognition it deserves.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade and autos, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, fundraising, Jeffrey Epstein, small business optimism, employment, Zoom security flaw, butterfly keyboard, Amazon stores voice, maggots, no insurance for coal, the Internet and ocean rise, Mad Magazine, old codgers, gender reveals
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