Iran And Russia Move To Create A Global Natural Gas Cartel
The emerging Russia-Iran gas OPEC is yet another threat to Western economies.
Read more...The emerging Russia-Iran gas OPEC is yet another threat to Western economies.
Read more...The UK is a serious and worsening cost of living crisis that’s impoverishing the former middle class. What will the political fallout be?
Read more...China chose a successful technological development path, in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States.
Read more...How LNG scarcity is playing into Europe’s gas woes, and other markets are set to feel the effects of the LNG price squeeze.
Read more...How companies are paying dividends rather than investing in their business or paying employees better……and often borrow to do so.
Read more...A look at some of the tax and tax collection changes in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Read more...The Fed confirms its true colors of being in the business of disciplining labor, whether it makes sense of not.
Read more...More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.
Read more...Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.
Read more...How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.
Read more...Germany looks a wee bit desperate as it suddendly moves to keep three nuclear reactors in producion that were set for shutdown
Read more...Housing sales and prices continuine on their grim slide.
Read more...The US is still escalanting with China over Taiwan. And China most assuredly is keeping score.
Read more...Workers and employers bargain over the surplus income generated by an employment relationship. This column uses information about key events in Germany relevant for wage negotiations, like labour strikes and the introduction of a minimum wage, to pinpoint changes in bargaining power between workers and employers. It finds that such wage bargaining ‘shocks’ are important drivers of unemployment and inflation and that their effect on wages is almost fully reflected in prices. Furthermore, they reduce the vacancy rate and increase firms’ profits and the labour share of income in the short run, but not in the long run.
Read more...Chip woes still bedevil carmakers, to the degree that auto quality ratings are down, particularly for preimum vehicles.
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