Tom Engelhardt: The Unhappy 17th Anniversary of the Afghan War
Looking back on 17 counterproductive years in Afghanistan.
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Plastic Watch: Recycling Woes
Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.
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Jeff Epstein: Naked Capitalism Led Me to MMT, and Its Commentariat Made Me a Better Writer
How Naked Capitalism and its readers provided political education.
Read more...Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
Why Naked Capitalism is your weapon against Larry Summers.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: The Democrats’ Globalization Dilemma
It’s no secret that globalization created losers, and the Democrats seem determined to ignore them.
Read more...Italy’s Debt Crisis Intensifies
Italy’s government debt yields are rising thanks to a budget standoff with Brussels, and Italian banks are looking more wobbly too.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/19/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Steel tariffs, aircraft imports, Booker, Sanders, Clinton, Democrat consultants attack nurses, home sales, apparel, Mr. Market in his happy space, Uwe Reinhardt, Teamster contract, forgotten suffragettes, law and economics, the Makerphone
Read more...Why Are We Mostly Ignoring the Climate Crisis? The Message Is Wrong
Why is there so little urgency about combatting climate change? What can be done to reverse that?
Read more...Naked Capitalism: Ten Years After Lehman
Naked Capitalism got the last crisis right and why it will probably have the opportunity to get the next crisis right.
Read more...Win for Students Having Loans From For–Profit Educational Institutions
Students get a rare break on the student debt front.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Analyzing the New NAFTA Deal — Better, But Not by Much
Why the new, improved NAFTA is only a little less bad than the old one.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/18/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trump and the postal subsidy, Biden 2020, Warren and the Cherokees, Sanders on foreign policy, Georgia shenanigains, Hillary Clinton, the Resistance, leading indicators, business outlook, Theranos, uber, robot cars, news deserts, Maine Question 1, books
Read more...Trump and Jamal Khashoggi— Saudi Arabia Has Been Bribing the US with Arms Sales for Years
An effort to put l’affaire Khashoggi in the context of the US-Saudi relationship.
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