Sunday, December 28, 2025

‘Their Inflation Strategy Is Working’: Corporate Profits Soared to Record High in 2021

“CEOs can’t stop bragging on corporate earnings calls about jacking up prices on consumers to keep their profits soaring,” said one expert.

The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis

You can’t quite say the IMF is the root of all evil. But it sure made a lot of bad situations worse.

Announcing 2022 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler!

2022 Mini-Fundraiser for Water Cooler

Arctic Greening Won’t Save the Climate – Here’s Why

Why arctic greening is yet another feel-good idea that does not pan out in practice.

Links 3/30/2022

Ukraine Updates and More Discussion of the Russia “Gas for Roubles” Countersanction

Gazprom is scheduled to announce what its roubls-for-gas payments stipulations are, even though most Western countries said no, sight unseen.

“Dollar Hegemony Ended Last Wednesday”: Michael Hudson Interviewed by Margaret Flowers on Clearing the Fog

Michael Hudson continues to discuss how Western sanctions are undermining the central role of the dollar in US economic dominance.

Under the Sea, a Hidden Climate Variable: Thawing Permafrost

Carefully mapping the changing topology of the Arctic Ocean floor, scientists are racing to study submarine permafrost.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/29/2022

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War or Peace, Barbarism or Hope: War Threatens World with Stagflation

A short hisory of stagflation and why it’s a pressing risk now.

Links 3/29/2022

US-Mexico Relations Hit New Low Over Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Mexico’s position of neutrality over the Russia-Ukraine conflict provokes backlash from Washington. 

NATO-Russia Proxy War – Revealing Signs of a Fading America: Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson continues his political and financial analysis of the war in Ukraine.

US Natural Gas Production and LNG Exports Amid Urgent Demand for LNG from Europe

Europe will compete with the biggest buyers of US LNG: South Korea, China, Japan, Brazil. But Mexico bought more than all four combined.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/28/2022

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