Thursday, July 3, 2025

How to Protect Your Pet from Climate Change

Your pet more vulnerable to climate change than you might think. Some helpful suggestions.

Longer-Term Treasury Yields & Mortgage Rates Explode, Yield Curve Un-Inverts Further as Bond Market Gets Spooked

Stock jockeys love Trump and bond vigilantes do not. What do their diverging views say about the prospects for the US economy?

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/6/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Election 2024 roundup; Gram Parson’s birthday; Welding ~

Netanyahu Replaces Fired Israeli Defense Minister With ‘Another Genocidal Lunatic’

Israel’s new defense minister, Israel Katz, is even more bloody-minded than the one Netanyahu sacked.

Links 11/6/2024

Going Back to the Source: A Personal Reflection on Capital, Volume 1

KLG reflects on how Marx’s Capital was an important primer for him in understanding capitalism, and why it remains a seminal guide.

BRICS Isn’t De-Dollarizing Anytime Soon

Why the Global South path away from the dollar will be longer and more difficult than many friends of BRICS imagine.

Live Blog, The Main Event: Election Day 2024

The Naked Capitalism live blog for Election Day 2024.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/5/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; Today’s RCP polling: Kamala closing, but Trump holds; Election prediction round-up ; Boeing workers sign contract, News Guild tech workers on strike at NYT ~

So What Happens After a Trump or Harris Win?

Some crystal-ball gazing into what four year of Trump or Harris would portend.

Links 11/5/2024

Just How Dystopian Can Starmer’s Britain Become?

While Starmer’s government is trying to expand the powers of the British State, it is using powers it already has — namely anti-terrorism laws — to arrest and intimidate pro-Palestinian journalists, activists and protesters.

Elections 2024: America at the End of Its Tether

A big source of election anxiety and conflict is that both parties give only lip service to rising inequality and fraying social safety nets.

Industrial Policy: Lessons from China’s Shipbuilding

A study of China’s shipbuilding industrial policy finds big market share gains did not produce domestic welfare benefits.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/4/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Today’s RCP polling: Kamala closing; Dueling Op-Eds on Kamala v. Trump; Boeing vote today; News Guild tech workers strike at NYT on election day ~