A good, high level review of how Israel’s long-standing and now accelerating ethnic cleansing in Palestine depends on US backing.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Quelle Surprise: NYT Piece on Nigeria’s “Worst Economic Crisis in Decades” Completely Ignores Its Disastrous CBDC Experiment
The world’s largest live CBDC program (to date) has so far been a destructive flop. And that is probably the last thing the editors of the New York Times want its readers to know.
Private Equity Becomes Roach Motel as Public Pension Funds and Other Investors Borrow As Funds Remain Tied Up
Oopsie! Private equity firms are hanging on to investor money for an unseemly amount of time! What to do?
Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Trump polling shows effects of conviction among independents; first Harris mailer; Biden fundraiser video; H5N1 cluster continues apace ~
Insufficient Supervisory Board Competence as a Risk Factor for Banks
Banking and financial market expertise is by no means a given.
Next Stage – The General Staff’s Targets After Putin’s Feint
Putin threw down a marker with his immediately-rejected peace offer last week. So where might the war go now?
Giorgia Meloni and Europe’s Future
Does Italy’s decades-long breakdown of the social contract provide a glimpse of what’s coming for Germany and the rest of Europe?
Michael Hudson: Agricultural Imperialism in the EU
How the US has used control over the supply of key agricultural commodities to defend its hegemony.
Sixteen Dad Jokes in Honor of Father’s Day (with Zeisgeistiana)
What will a future Zeitgeist historian think?
Bird Flu Tests Are Hard To Get. So How Will We Know When To Sound the Pandemic Alarm?
“It’s hard to not compare this to covid, where early on we only tested people who had traveled.”
