Queensland gives Indian mining giant Adani go-ahead for massive coal mine, ignoring environmental and climate change concerns.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
The Inverted Yield Curve
Should we trust the recession warning the yield curve is sending?
Don’t Miss Free Books, Good Company, Plus Other Giveaways at Our NYC Open House Next Sunday June 23
Hope NYC area types will find time to drop in for our open house next Sunday the 23rd!
Climate Change: Saving Coral Reefs
Scientists produce report outlining interventions to improve persistence and resilience of coral reefs as ocean temperatures rise.
US Poised to Approve Shipping LNG by Rail for Export With No New Safety Rules
Trump administration soon to allow massive trains to transport LNG in unit trains 100 cars long and for the express purpose of moving LNG to export facilities – with scant regard for safety consequences.
Food Security: Largest Animal Epidemic in History Is Due to Industrial Farming
The largest animal epidemic in history – an outbreak of African swine flu – is currently ravaging pigs in Asia. The cause: industrial farming practices. The cure: change the food production model.
Economic Growth: A Short History of a Controversial Idea
Environmentalists and even some economists question the relentless pursuit of GDP growth. But where did the idea come from?
Book Review: Chris Arnade’s “Dignity”
Chris Arnade’s 150,000-mile, multi-year photograhic journey through unthriving America—urban and rural, black and white, from Lewiston, Maine, to Bakersfield, California, with many stops in between.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Not totally open, more to come!
Grenfell Tower Fire: A (Non-)Progress Report
Plus ça change….
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Trade Threats Are Really Cold War 2.0
At stake is whether China will agree to do what Russia did in the 1990s: put a Yeltsin-like puppet of neoliberal planners in place to shift control of its economy from its government to the U.S. financial sector and its planners.
Conservative Economists Embrace Adam Smith as a Hero — But Many Scholars Say His Legacy Has Been Distorted
In popular imagination, Smith’s invisible hand has become so strongly associated with Friedman’s openly conservative economic agenda that people often take for granted that is what Smith meant.
