Italy at the Grim Edge of a Global Problem (Updated)
With the average 20-year-old Italian now looking to wait 18 years before living independently, who will support Italy’s pensioners?
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Trump Approves Keystone XL Pipeline, Making Good on Campaign Promise
Although additional regulatory approvals, lawsuits, and protests loom, the controversial Keystone XL pipeline now looks likely to proceed.
Read more...Airline Cabin Laptop Ban: More Security Theater?
US + UK ban laptops and other electronics from cabin baggage on flights from Mid East: Why? Airlines scramble in response, lame jokes ensue.
Read more...Trump EPA Cuts Will Hamper Efforts to Enforce Lead Standards for Drinking Water
TRNN interview with Erik Olson discussing water safety in the US, where 18 million people are served by water systems with lead violations.
Read more...Taking on Trump’s Agenda: Nine Tough Questions for SEC Chair Nominee Jay Clayton on the Eve of His Confirmation Hearings
Risk your rice bowls! My riposte to pearl-clutching white shoe lawyers calling on Trump SEC nominee to denounce Trump visa ban.
Read more...Even Before Brexit Triggered, EU Again Signals It Is Not Budging on “Shape of the Table” Issue
The EU is not giving ground as the Brexit trigger date approaches.
Read more...The Global Industrial Working Class
Why industrial workers are better positioned than most observers think…just not in the US and many other Northern Hemisphere countries.
Read more...Is Trump Going to Punt on H-1B Visa Reform?
The lack of updates from the Trump Administration about H-1B reform suggests it will miss a key window of opportunity.
Read more...The Battle for Healthcare in the US
Some of the major consequences of the proposed Republican changes to healthcare, um, health insurance.
Read more...Some Easy Straw Men: Zack Beauchamp, Sanders, Economics, and Identity Politics
What Zack Beauchamp gets wrong about Bernie Sanders and “populism”
Read more...Oil And Gas States Forced To Cut Education Spending
The oil price slump has put pressure on the budgets of the U.S. oil and coal states.
Read more...Deepening EU Banking Crisis Meets Euro-TARP and Taxpayers
As the banking crisis in Europe intensifies, TARP-like ideas are on the table. How realistic are they?
Read more...Race to the Bottom: Cities and States Spend >$45 Billion Per Year Competing for Jobs
The Wall Street Journal published an important story on how states and communities throw money at companies via tax incentives and other gimmies in a desperate effort to win or hold jobs. These subsidies are a big drain on government budgets: Economic-development tax incentives more than tripled over the past 25 years, offsetting about 30% […]
Read more...The Canadian Establishment and Prime Minister Trudeau Aim at Ousting Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland
Is Canada’s Foreign Minister Freeland, in a scandal over lying about her Nazi propagandist grandfather, being hung out to dry by the PM?
Read more...Mainstream, Pro-EU Rutte’s VVD Beats Populist, Anti-Immigration Wilders in Dutch Election
Far right winger Geert Wilders fails to cinch a win for his party in the Dutch election, contrary to polling in recent months.
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