James Galbraith: China and Supply Chains – The White House Review’s Focus on US Dependence
Despite brave talk about restoring manufacturing in America, extended supply chains and the position of China are insurmountable impediments.
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Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A $50 Billion Mississippi River Diversion Plan?
Questions about Louisiana’s plans to reroute the mighty Mississppi to save its eroding coast rattle the agency spearheading them
Read more...A Report from Sierra Leone: Covid-19 Has Helped People Understand the Vital Connection Between Energy and Health
Sierra Leone so far has had some Covid success despite low vaccination rates, and it illustrates the challenges poor countries face.
Read more...‘Managed Retreat’ from Climate Disasters Can Reinvent Cities So They’re Better for Everyone – and Avoid More Flooding, Heat and Fires
Managed retreat is a promising way to deal with rising seas…except it requires things we’re bad at, like planning and cooperation.
Read more...Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas
A look at the current acceptance of neoliberal policies.
Read more...The 2021 Corporate Bamboozle On World Food Systems
Mega-corporations are set to win control of global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year.
Read more...There Is No Labor Shortage, Only Labor Exploitation
Conservatives and corporate employers are weaving an insidious web of myths, lies and exaggerations to justify maintaining low-wage jobs.
Read more...Standard Inflation Theory Leaves Out Social Conflict and Costs
What That Means For Biden’s Inflation Policy Trilemma
Read more...Book Review: “Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives”
Maxims for ownership, because markets.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Oh Lordy, Yellen Comes Out for Higher Interest Rates: “A Plus for Society’s Point of View and the Fed’s Point of View”
“We want them to go back to” a normal interest rate environment.
Read more...Food Insecurity: A Potentially Underrated Collateral Damage of the Pandemic
Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
Read more...Rethinking Unemployment: From Adam Smith to Marx “Reserve Army of the Unemployed” to the Neoliberal War on Full Employment
Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Read more...How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible
Oil companies hire accountants to legitmate inflated financial claims. Investors and regulators are targeting these auditors for fraud.
Read more...How Is Your Economy?
One of our periodic reader queries as to what they make of the state of the economy based on local sightings.
Read more...Bob Pollin: Modest Inflation Is Good for Workers
If inflation is linked to higher wages, that’s not bad for workers, says Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst.
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