Shutting Down Federal Bee Labs Threatens Bees, Beekeepers and the US Food System
Is the country’s food supply being destroyed intentionally?
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Private Equity Now Owns 1 in 8 Apartment Units, a 50 Percent Increase Since 2021
Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent.
Read more...Artificial Stupidity in the Persian Gulf
The planned central hub for American digital—and dollar— supremacy goes up in flames, but Silicon Valley and Washington refuse to learn anything.
Read more...What’s in the Price of a Gallon of Gas?
Energy crises are good times for oil refiners—not so much for the rest of us.
Read more...Louisiana Advances One of the Country’s ‘Cruelest’ Anti-Homeless Bills
One homeless advocacy group said the bill, which would require homeless people to perform unpaid labor to pay for involuntary treatment, “evokes debtor’s prisons, convict leasing, and the ugliest day of Jim Crow.”
Read more...Iran War: Trump Doubles Down on “Reign Hell” April 6 Threat, Also Reports F-15 Officer Rescued; US Strike on Bushehr Nuclear Plant Breaches Protection Circuit; Multiple Interconnected Supply Crises Baked in Within Weeks; UPDATE Iran Claims Two More US Planes Downed
Today’s Iran war news: Trump reiterates his dangerous escalation threat as the real economy Titanic is about to hit the iceberg.
Read more...Massive US War Spending Hike Raises Debt, Taxes, Doubts
As US President Donald Trump pushes the world to war, arms spending has been rising worldwide. Wars secure more budgetary allocations, mainly benefiting the US-dominated military-industrial complex.
Read more...Polymarket Manipulation and Other Guessing Games
How Polymarket traders using tools like “insider finder” to identify positions that look based on special intel can be fleeced.
Read more...Two Decades of Chinese Industrial Subsidies
A profile of China’s subsidies and how they have changed over time. Counter-intuitively, agriculture is the most important recipient.
Read more...American Pirates and the Coming Militarization of Commercial Shipping
Much be made o’ china militarized commercial ship sightin’ but there be Yankee gentlemen o’ fortune o’er yonder.
Read more...Coffee Break: Boxing Day Miscellany
Part the First: No, This Is Not Another Bell Labs. Bell Labs was justifiably renowned as the place to do high level physics and engineering. It also supported Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in their research that identified the background cosmic microwave radiation that is the remnant of the Big Bang. But Bell Labs worked […]
Read more...Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods
Despite introducing legislation across the country to restrict foreign ownership of farmland, lawmakers do not appear motivated to target monopolistic firms, or to bring more of the food supply chain under domestic control.
Read more...In an Ohio Suburb, Sprawl Is Being Transformed Into Walkable Neighborhoods
Yale Climate Connections argues that rethinking American suburbs could help people drive less, lowering emissions.
Read more...Political Power and Profitable Trades in the US Congress
A new study finds that it’s not the Congress rank and file that generates insider trading big bucks, only some of the leaders.
Read more...Economic Questions: James Tobin’s Transaction Tax
A Tobin tax is a no-brainer for reducing speculation and financial crisis risk. That is reason enough to keep it from being implemented.
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