France, Germany, & Poland Are Competing For Leadership Of Post-Conflict Europe
France, Germany and Poland are reacting to how relations between Russia, and the US will determine Europe’s future security architecture.
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‘We Know What It’s Like’: How Appalachian Towns Are Learning to Help Each Other After Floods
A meant-to-be-heartening story of post-flooding recovery efforts in Appalachia: is this the coming new normal in climate-change-exposed areas?
Read more...Where Did U.S. Public Health Go Wrong?
How good coordination of public health with private medical practice never came together in the US and got worse in recent decades.
Read more...“Might the US Be About to Fall Off an Economic Cliff?”
The respected Atlanta Fed NowCast is scary bad, as in economic shoes about to drop in a big way bad.
Read more...Checking In on the Democrats’ Search for the “Good Billionaires”
What role is elite reconciliation under Trump playing in the Democrats’ silence on the looting of country? And in the meantime, where shall the rest of us turn?
Read more...Capitalism in Decay
A compact assessment of where capitalism is taking us.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse
Our first warfare-focused Coffee Break: the U.S. nuclear football, the President’s sole power to use it, and public indifference towards it
Read more...New York Fed’s Measure of “Inflation Persistence” Nixes Friday’s Idea that YoY PCE Inflation Cooled, Using Same Data
Inflation Whack-A-Mole: price pressures shifted from housing to non-housing services and core goods.
Read more...Coca Cola: Made in Mexico, Apparently
As the world’s largest soft drinks manufacturer faces a consumer boycott in one of its largest global markets, its marketers come up with a cunning plan. But will it work?
Read more...The GENIUS Act: Setting the Stage for a Federal Bailout When Stablecoins Become Insolvent
Why the GENIUS Act does not live up to its pretenses of making stablecoins safe, thus setting the stage for a Federal bailout.
Read more...Twilight of the Woke, or How to Historicize with a Hammer
A review of Musa al Gharbi’s “We Have Never Been Woke” which chronicles the class and cultural hypocrisy of a new elite.
Read more...Jane D’Arista on How the Failure of Global Finance Is Systemic
Jane D’Arista describes the internationalization of finance and how is has produced not just crises but fundamental economic distortions
Read more...The Empire Rebrands
Both Biden’s “Foreign Policy for the Middle Class” and Trump’s “America First” are packaged to solicit support from the American people for empire.
Read more...Mass Terminations Have Cut USDA ‘Off at the Knees,’ Ex-employees Say
The US is now a net importer of food. “America First” policies threaten to make situation worse, but who could benefit?
Read more...Trump and Wealth-Price Inflation: Still Running in the Background All the Time
Demand by America’s most affluent is driving consumer spending. That spending, in turn, is the main force keeping inflation so high
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