Why Are The Oil Markets Crashing?
Sunny predictions for oil prices in 2017 are looking a tad premature.
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The Fall of the Latin American Left, Part I: Brazil’s Boom and Bust
Discussing why the left in Latin America lost power, starting with Brazil.
Read more...Our Current Food System Is Broken and Unjust—We Need a Paradigm Shift That Values Nutrition as a Human Right
Plenty of food is produced, but it fails to reach at least an eighth of the world’s population that is suffering from hunger.
Read more...Faster Fashion Cycle Accelerates
Sustainable fashion initiatives face huge obstacles in displacing fast fashion’s popularity, despite fair labor and environmental concerns.
Read more...Trump Can’t Save Coal
Why Trump isn’t bringing coal jobs back.
Read more...Taking on Trump’s Agenda: Nine Tough Questions for SEC Chair Nominee Jay Clayton on the Eve of His Confirmation Hearings
Risk your rice bowls! My riposte to pearl-clutching white shoe lawyers calling on Trump SEC nominee to denounce Trump visa ban.
Read more...How Russia Is Using Oil Deals To Secure Its Influence In The Middle East
A string of oil deals between Russian oil companies and Arab petrostates have shifted the center of political gravity in the Middle East and North Africa towards Moscow
Read more...Iraq: “Is It Oil?”
Why the Iraq oil problem was not so much access, as in meeting U.S. oil needs, but that U.S. firms had been frozen out of Iraq.
Read more...Biggest Gasoline Glut In 27 Years Could Crash Oil Markets
High gasoline and crude inventories do not bode well for oil prices this year.
Read more...It’s Time To Put Food Policy Back On The Table
The agri-industrial model of huge-scale, corporate-run operations vs. the agri-cultural model community-based family farming
Read more...A Tale of Two Countries: Nigeria and the U.S.
How the US and Nigeria wound up with increasingly similar systems, such as centralized, presidential-focused politics.
Read more...The Oil Supply Glut Is Here To Stay In 2017
Why oil prices will stay soft this year.
Read more...‘A Five-Alarm Threat to Our Food Supply’: Experts Describe Bayer-Monsanto Merger
Whether or not regulators approve the Bayer-Monsanto merger, these companies will continue their rampage against nature.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Why Hanjin’s Zombie Collapse Won’t Be the Last One
China Containerized Freight Index remains near record low.
Read more...Could a Lithium Shortage De-Rail the Electric Car Boom?
Will lithium be the next plastics?
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