What Blew Our Financial Bubble So Big?
Why it’s more fun and profitable to be in the bubble economy than the real one.
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Read more...The Solomon Islands story of great power competition in the South Pacific is part of a much older one of colonial conceit and neglect.
Read more...On the rise and decline of the dollar system.
Read more...Russia will soon launch economic sanctions, as directed in a Putin executive order.
Read more...Ancient and medieval herbal abortifacients were effective and important to those economies.
Read more...A new book documents the scale and mechanism of the looting of Africa.
Read more...The EU is planning to punch Russia hard with yet another embargo, this of its oil. But will this wind up being more rope a dope?
Read more...Russia implements its gas for roubles scheme as promised, cutting off supplies to non-adherents. Howling ensues.
Read more...Yves here. Helmer gives interlocking updates, one of what can be inferred about the state of the war in Ukraine, the other on the prospects for Team Dem come November. Recall that Helmer was part of the Carter Administration, as so has some perspective. A couple of additions: Helmer provides evidence that Ukraine is regrouping […]
Read more...Joanna Chiu’s book, China Unbound, argues for engaging China to seriously address human rights, climate change, and economic development.
Read more...Green energy requires significant amounts of metals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese. Current supplies aren’t adequate.
Read more...Even through the fog of the Ukraine war, it’s possible to discern some contours of the future emerging.
Read more...How the Sri Lanka debt crisis was decades in the making.
Read more...Russia is now debating alternatives for putting its economy on a war footing: nationalizations or keeping billionaire capitalism in place.
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