China And U.S. Lock Horns Over New 122.5% Steel Tariff
Yet another US/China trade row, this one over steel.
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China Schizophrenia: Jake Sullivan Makes Demands, Press Fulminates Its Ambitions as While Overhyping Current Economic Wobbles
The West’s discomfort over China’s influence and economic stature is sometimes a bit too obvious.
Read more...Ann Pettifor Explains Why Neoclassical Economists Are the Last People To Listen to on Climate Change
A well-warranted takedown of the irresponsible and destructive record of mainstream economists on climate change.
Read more...As Offshore Wind Ramps Up, Scientists Flag Potential Impacts
Offshore wind farms can create their own local climates and may alter currents. How does that affect marine ecosystems?
Read more...Fed Ponders How Quickly to Try to Inflict More Pain on the Economy to Get Inflation to 2%
Debates inside and outside the Fed as to what it should do next about inflation pick up as its annual Jackson Hole conference approaches.
Read more...China And Russia Execute A Pincer Movement Around Iraq’s Biggest Oil Assets
China and Russia oil plays in and around Iraq provide further evidence that the US has lost its touch in the hegemony game.
Read more...Is Erdogan’s High-Wire Act Running Out of Rope?
Sweden’s NATO accession remains at a standstill as Turkiye confronts headaches in every direction.
Read more...How German Foreign Minister’s Cancelled Trip Due to Plane Problems Is Symbolic of Country’s Decline
The fact FM Baerbock had to cancel trip and fly home commercial is a useful metaphor for Berlin’s recent rash of self-inflicted wounds.
Read more...Interview: Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis
Some promising approaches to reducing gun violence.
Read more...Better Late Than Never? Spain’s El País Sounds Alarm Over Consequences of Ukraine “Proxy War” for EU’s Future
After enthusiastically selling the war since its inception, the mainstream media in Europe may be beginning to change its tune.
Read more...How Javier Milei Upset Argentina’s Political Status Quo
Yves here. We’re featuring a post from openDemocracy on Argentina’s primary results that had far-right candidate Javier Milei beating the candidates of the two parties that have been in power for two decades. The post is telling, and not in a good way. Milei does advocate extreme views (not that he can go as far […]
Read more...Investors Start Thinking About Underpricing of Climate Risk
Some investors are worried that climate risk means their holdings are overvalued. It would be nicer if they worried about the real world too.
Read more...NAM 2.0+G77 vs G7+NATO+OECD+WEF
Jomo warns US policies are creating war and depression, pushing developing nations to strengthen democratic institutions of global governance
Read more...Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS
ichael Hudson on topics old and new: the role of debt in rentier extraction and US hegemony, and the prosepcts for the dollar and BRICS.
Read more...Analyzing Apparently Irrational Behavior in Western Elites
Some old and newish theories as to why our elites seem unable to manage their way out of a paper bag.
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