Yves here. A map of the Strait of Hormuz and environs seemed a useful addition. The danger, as the article insinuates, is that if things got that far, a conflict over the Strait of Hormuz would escalate into a full-scale conflagration. By Dr. Cyril Widdershoven, a long-time observer of the global energy market. Presently, he […]
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Richard Murphy: Ignore the Gini Coefficient – Real Inequality Is Growing and People Are Suffering as a Result
More lying with statistics on the inequality front.
Interview: Teaching Graham Elwood Modern Money, and How the Progressive Media Gets It Wrong
A case study in teaching modern money to a progressive who unknowingly has swallowed neoliberal economic ideas.
Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
How businesses created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
Meetups Coming Soon! Friday July 6 in Chicago, Sunday July 8 in Green Bay
Reminders and details for coming meetups. See you soon!
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/3/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Oprah 2020, the left and the ballot, Ocasio-Cortez, employment, trade, Tesla, AT&T, Comcast, Thomas Frank, expatriation, Juggalos and facial recognition
Anthony Kennedy and Our Delayed Constitutional Crisis
The role Justice Anthony Kennedy played in the deteriorating legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Richard Murphy: Stock Markets Look Ever More Like Ponzi Schemes
Why is it entirely sensible to regard stock markets as Ponzi schemes.
Holiday Schedule
We are taking a sort of holiday, um, staycation, um breather. Hope you get to take a break too!
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/2/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and Mr. Market, Supreme Court and midterms, DNC fundraising, manufacturing, construction, sand, Tesla, email, class, trees, slow photography
As Industry Pushes Billion-Dollar Fracked Petrochemical Projects, State Regulators Struggle To Keep Up
Fueled by fracking in the region, petrochemical and plastics projects in the Ohio River Valley are attracting tens of billions of dollars in investment, overwhelming state regulators who are unprepared and ill-equipped to oversee this next wave of industrialization.
EU Calls Trump’s Bluff on Auto Tariffs as Trump Tries Dead on Arrival WTO Exit Plan
The EU is neither happy with nor cowed by Trump’s latest trade threat.
