Labour MPs Should Vote Against Theresa May’s Brexit Deal. It Is a Poison Pill
Labour wants to play a game of chicken with May over Brexit.
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How Trump’s Game of Chicken With Iran Could Weaken the Dollar’s Role as the World’s Currency
Politicizing the SWIFT payments system is leading other nations to the search for alternatives to the dollar.
Read more...A Naked Capitalism Win: No More Poop in the Loop
How a reader documenting a horse dump problem in Chicago’s Loop led to a clean-up.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Amazon Rips Off 238 Cities, States and Provinces, Then Builds in NYC and DC
More evidence that Amazon is nasty.
Read more...Brexit: Brexit Minister Raab Resigns; May to Face Hostile Parliament. Update: Two More Resignations, Bringing Total So Far to Four, Now Six
Another rough Brexit day for Theresa May in the offing.
Read more...High Stakes, Entrenched Interests And The Trump Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Brexit: May at Her Marks to Run a Gauntlet. Update: Cabinet Approves Draft Agreement
Brexit spectacle is about to kick into a higher gear.
Read more...Trump and the Midterms: Is It Not The Economy, Stupid?
What role did the state of the economy likely play in the midterm results?
Read more...Brexit: A State Change Nigh? Updated: UK and EU Said to Reach Agreement; Key MPs Denounce It
If May does not get her vaunted Brexit breakthrough this Wednesday, the UK will have to start passing “no deal” emergency legislation and laying out funds for preparation. Expect the dial to go to 11 if that happens.
Read more...Jackpot? A Round-Up of This Season’s California Wildfires (So Far)
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Last week, there were three (major) California wildfires in the news: The Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise in Northern California, and the Hill and Woolsey fires in Southern California, which are still burning, not entirely contained. Here is a map: And here is a shot of the […]
Read more...Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition: The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion
Lambert here: Makes our own Civil War look like a blip. However, at least some of the conclusions seem to be borne out for our Civil War, too: Increase in state capacity, for example. By Lixin Colin Xu, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank, and Li Yang, Postdoc, Paris School of Economics. Originally published […]
Read more...Did Fossil Fuel Firms Completely Dominate Climate Change Issues on the 2018 Ballot?
A round-up of mid-term results pertaining to climate change.
Read more...The Super Rich Get Even Richer
The continuing rise in wealth of the super rich bodes ill for financial and social stability.
Read more...Brexit Dithering and a Labour Push for Revocation?
More Brexit motion, but progress is likely a very different matter.
Read more...US Policy On Iran After The Midterm Elections
A clear Senate majority gives Trump more support for playing tough with Iran. But how productive is this likely to be?
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