Monday, July 7, 2025
Austria’s Third Largest Lender, Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), Is Trapped In Russia, Its Most Lucrative Market
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is one of the few large European banks that continues to conduct business more-or-less-as-usual in Russia. But as the profits from its Russian operations surge, the associated risks and costs are also rising.
For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel
Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Saudi- U.S. Relations Sour Further On Huge OPEC+ Surprise Cut
Yes, sports fans, the Administration blew it with Saudis. Dealings may have been set to sour, but Team Biden accelerated the process.
Why Did Covid Daily Case Counts and Covid Wastewater Readings Diverge in March 2022?
CDC turns out to be superb at scientific communication….
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/10/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Corporate Greed Is a Root Cause of Rail Disasters Around the World
Greece’s worst rail disaster ever is the result of the same corporate cost-cutting and deregulation that led to East Palestine and Lac-Mégantic disasters.
Pentagon in Panic as Second Set of Leaked Documents Gains Traction, Revealing Spying on Allies and Deteriorating Ukraine Capabilities
The Pentagon and intel chiefs are in a tizzy over a major documents leak. How serious is it?
Freida Berrigan: 90 Seconds to Midnight – The Doomsday Clock and Me
The potency of the warning of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock seems to be fading….when the urgency is high.
A Fragile Institutional Foundation Means Genomic Surveillance Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Of the open source projects that are essential to genomic surveillance, one depends on a tiny team, the other depends on a single person. What happens when one of those projects goes down?
The Asymmetric Federal Reserve Objective
The Fed’s objective is asymmetric, with inflation overshoots being more costly than undershoots. Using data from the Summary of Economic Projections it shows that the Bernanke Fed was too hawkish, the Yellen Fed was too dovish, and the Fed under Jerome Powell has at times been too hawkish and too dovish.
Why Do Mainstream Democrats Hate Matt Taibbi?
In which the Democrats show their true colors as vicious discipliniarians.
