Ilargi: What? Default? Where? Dollar?
Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.
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Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente I’m afraid this is a post where I did indeed catch a bird, just not the one that I intended to catch. I had thought to write a post the Mekong River part of the biosphere (as with coral, mangroves, soil, and algae in Lake Erie) but as it turned […]
Read more...We’re constantly told that state capitalism is back. But these narratives are far from innocent.
Read more...Trump backs down on plan too toss out foreign students who are forced to study on-line, as many universities circumscribe in-person classes,
Read more...Howy national conflicts, new concerns about security and supply chain risk, and technology are reshaping trade networks to be closer to home.
Read more...Ars Technica clutches pearls at poll showing decline in those willing to download privacy-infringing app to stymie spread of COVID-19.
Read more...China’s response to the pandemic is to furth disempower its domestic and peripheral populations.
Read more...The press has hyped the “gee whiz” factor of space toys while ignoring that exiting the Open Skies agreement will kick off a new arms race.
Read more...The U.S. fumbled its coronavirus response. Its intent to hoard vaccine profits only isolates it from other countries working on remedies.
Read more...Countries jostle to surrender civil liberties to a techno-fix app to quell COVID-19, but should instead heed Hong Kong’s low-tech lesson.
Read more...Hong Kong’s public health authorities protect its population from COVID-19, via use of masks; NYC, by contrast, flounders.
Read more...How China’s Covid-19 censorship illustrates how Chinese citizens have internalized what were once top-down controls.
Read more...Examining theories about Covid-19 that blame its start on farming. But which kind of farming?
Read more...COVID-19 has exposed flaws in the global supply chain economic model; advances in technology have rendered it obsolete.
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