Fed Shamelessly Gives Warnings of Vague and Ominous Risks While Saying Don’t Expect Us to Do Anything About It
The Fed tells the world: Don’t expect us to be ready for the next financial crisis. It’s just too hard.
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Reducing Methane Is Crucial for Protecting Climate and Health, and It Can Pay for Itself – Yet Emissions Are Still Rising Fast, A New UN Report Warns
After a long period of fracking boosterism in the US, reducing methane emissions is finally getting the attention it warrants.
Read more...The Tattered Histories of Possible Future Ambassadors….Like Rahm Emanuel
A surprising number of ambassadors at prominent posts are patraonge picks. And who gets rewarded for what isn’t pretty.
Read more...‘Cry No Tears for These Death Profiteers’: Pharma Stocks Plunge as Biden Backs Vaccine Patent Waiver
Biden is suddenly backing a patent waiver for foreign manufacture of Covid vaccines. But do the mechanics make this a headfake?
Read more...Michel Barnier’s Brexit Diaries Published; Stinging Take of UK Strategic and Negotiating
Barnier’s Brexit diaries confirm the notion that the UK side was not up to the task and didn’t have the self-awareness to recognize that.
Read more...California Bill Seeks to Prevent Hospital Administrators from Practicing Medicine Without a License
An important vehicle for doctors to take back control by keeping administrators from playing at medicine has oddly stayed under the radar.
Read more...Dan Walters, Dean of Sacramento Columnists, Blasts CalPERS’ Corruption-Friendly Secret Lending Bill
Dan Walters, Sacramento’s most respected political columnist, calls out CalPERS’ corruption.
Read more...When Big Green Meets Big Money: The Nature Conservancy Caught Greenwashing Corporate Pollution
Green organizations are not created equal. Naming some of the leading greenwashers, starting with the Nature Conservancy.
Read more...Plaintiffs in Kentucky Retirement System Pension Case Expose Flagrant Corruption in Hiring of Tainted Attorney Regina Calcaterra, Best Known for Sabotaging New York Anti-Corruption Commission
Kentucky Retirement Systems stooped low in cooking its hiring process to pick coverup artist Regina Calceterra to run an “investigation”.
Read more...Michael Hudson Q&A in Webinar on 4000 Years of Money and Debt
The Q&A from a Michael Hudson talk on money, debt, and economic orthodoxy.
Read more...Webinar with Michael Hudson: A 4000-Year Perspective on Economy, Money and Debt
Michael Hudson gives a long historical account of the role of debt and money as a tool for promoting prosperity and political dominance.
Read more...So Much For May Day
On the peculiar decline of May Day.
Read more...Mamata Banerjee’s TMC Retains West Bengal, Shutting Out Modi’s BJP from Taking Power in the State
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP failed to pull off an upset in West Bengal, and still has never atatinaed a majority in the state.
Read more...Biden Urged to Stand ‘On the Side of Humanity’ and Back Waiver for Covid Vaccine Patents
Biden faces increased wroldwide pressure for WTO waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines as case counts soar in India.
Read more...Mark Blyth – An Inflated Fear of Inflation?
Mark Blyth explains why inflation in the U.S., Canada, & E.U. is highly unlikely: a room for more government spending and higher wages.
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