Monday, June 30, 2025
Could Argentina Be the Next Latin American Country to Dollarise Its Economy?
Against a backdrop of triple-digit inflation, severe drought and ever-rising economic uncertainty, the idea of abolishing the peso and adopting the US dollar gains ground.
The Debt Ceiling End-Game
So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
Coalition Calls on IPCC to Reject Meat Industry Meddling in UN Climate Process
“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”
Durham Report: The Republic We Didn’t Keep
The Durham Report and State Crimes Against Democracy
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/22/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
US Geopolitics: Believing Impossible Things
On the global stage, US can only barely keep up the pretense that it is not losing its mind.
Four-Fifths of Board Members at America’s Top Six Banks are Climate Conflicted
High level links between polluting sectors and bank directors could be acting as a block to climate action, campaigners warn.
U.S. Shale Production Is Set For A Rapid Decline
Much tighter shale markets look baked in by year end. That would produce a lot of knock-on effects.
I’d Love to Go Long Masks, and… Maybe Someday! Tasks for the American Mask Manufacturers Association
Masking can become a social norm if masks become fashion items, but that can only happen if the mask industry adopts some standards.
Central Banks: Uncertainty Is the Problem, Not Managing the Trilemma
Regain price stability is difficult but doable; the bigger problem facing central banks is economic uncertainty
Are US Prescription Drug Prices 10 Times Those of Other Nations? Only Sometimes
Misleading fact checking as a way to denigrate figures who regularly challenge the mainstream, here Bernie Sanders.
