Spike in Energy Prices Suggests That Sharp Changes Are Ahead
Gail Tverberg expands her focus beyond energy to provide an analysis of what is going terribly wrong in the world economy
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Brexit: David Frost’s Bluster Can’t Wish Away the Northern Ireland Protocol
Many Brexiters see Article 16 as a ‘get out of jail free’ card for the Northern Ireland protocol. Here’s why they’re wrong
Read more...It’s OK To Be Angry. How Else Will We Change the World?
Getting angry is close to taboo. Nice way to strangle dissent.
Read more...Officials Double Down on “Let ‘Er Rip” Strategy, Placing Undue Faith in Vaccines as Regions With High Vaccinations Suffer Infection Spikes
Public health officials are again placing too much faith in vaccines as they end key international travel restrictions.
Read more...Jim Chanos: China’s “Leveraged Prosperity” Model is Doomed. And That’s Not the Worst
Famed short-seller Jim Chanos is more concerned with political fallout from China’s Evergrande than economic/financial woes.
Read more...New Report Highlights Corporate Funding of Police Foundations, Which Encourage Police Militarization and Thwart Reform
Corporations funnel significant funds to anti-reform police foundations, while publicly supporting PR campaigns for police reform.
Read more...The John Deere Strike: Organized Labor’s Turning Point?
Will the Deere strike become a watershed event, a PATCO in reverse?
Read more...Bad Biden Foreign Policy
Biden is as bad as Trump on foreign policy. The press has been absent save ampllifying the arms merchants’ hissy over the Afghanistan exit
Read more...Central Asia’s Neoliberal Tragedy
How the post-USSR neoliberal land grab played out in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Needless to say, not pretty.
Read more...10,000 John Deere Workers Reject Contract, Strike 14 Plants
A round-up on the John Deere strike: The contract dispute, and the correlation of forces between labor and management.
Read more...Popularism and the Child Tax Credit
On the use and misuse of popularism as a tool to inform policy decisions.
Read more...Did Labor Action Over Vaccine Mandates Compel Southwest to Cancel Thousands of Flights?
The strange story of Southwest’s operational collapse this weekend
Read more...Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK
Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working
Read more...Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
Read more...The Neverending Brexit: Flailing Johnson Set to Try to Renege on Commitment to Respect Good Friday Agreement
Boris Johnson is expected to eyepoke the EU by reneging on the Norhtern Ireland protocol, presumbly to distract from domestic shortages.
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