While the programmability features of CBDCs have generated considerable alarm, it’s a very different story for the stablecoins that the US government seeks to regulate with its “GENIUS” act.
Read more...Following the money shows why Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s shadow will last long beyond his tenure.
Read more...More evidence of the cost of monopoly and oligopoly power.
Read more...It can’t be said often enough that neoliberalism is unhealthy for children and other living things.
Read more...A look at the damage being done by Trump tariffs, though the eyes of small business operators in New York City.
Read more...Anthony Fauci and Gregory Folkers take a stab at delineating what HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 have taught us about pandemic responses
Read more...Quelle surprise! People really hate the uncertainty that comes with business cycles. This bodes ill for the Trump regime.
Read more...On the total flaccidity of what passes for opposition to Trump.
Read more...Our warfare-focused Coffee Break: Drone technology’s dramatic impact on current warfare, its rapid evolution, and the danger of its unrestricted development
Read more...Labour goes all in for cutting social spending, first for the disabled, almost certainly with the excuse that it’s needed to fund rearming.
Read more...But what could it mean for China’s trade relations with Latin America, in particular the US’ largest trade partner Mexico?
Read more...Yet more punishing the poors, here in the form of unduly punitive clawbacks of accidental Social Security overpayments.
Read more...An estimate of the magnitude of dark-shipped oil suggests that removing sanctions would raise, not lower, oil prices.
Read more...This week’s Europe/UK focused Coffee Break: German and Romanian election chicanery, UK snooping, why Western pols believe Ukraine can win.
Read more...Leading edge conventional wisdom on the role of insurance as climate disasters increase underestimates the severity of the problem.
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