Rain and Heat, Fire and Snow: Life in a Destabilized California
Climate change and California are not getting on very well.
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James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Galbraith explains why conventional views of inflation are a particularly poor fit for recent price increases and produced bad policy
Read more...An Old, Small Opening Salvo v Russia? 2013 Bank Bail-In “increasingly has the smell of a proxy Germany v. Russia struggle through Cyprus”
A closer look at an old Eurozone banking crisis shows how Cyprus was (at least to a degree) used to get at Russia.
Read more...How the Left Should Exercise Power Once They Have It
Another episode in the long-running soap opera, “Can the Left Be Saved?”
Read more...Biden to End Orders Declaring Covid a National Emergency on May 11, Because Why Not?
The pandemic is over when we say it’s over.
Read more...“Yes, Britain Is Corrupt. But It’s a Lot Worse Than You Think”
The press talked up the UK’s drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.
Read more...How Evangelicals Moved from Supporting Environmental Stewardship to Climate Skepticism
The religious right largely opposes government regulation to protect the environment, but this hasn’t always been the case.
Read more...Why, Despite RAND’s Recommendation, the Ukraine War Is Unlikely to End in a Negotiated Settlement
The timing of a Blinken interview and a RAND paper release points to elite splits over Ukraine. Sadly the warmongers are still in charge.
Read more...“Look for the Helpers”: Corsi-Rosenthal Box Round-Up
Making pie crust is harder than making a Corsi-Rosenthal box.
Read more...Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Discuss the Causes and Politicization of Inflation
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Read more...Contesting The Ultimate Lockdown: Non-Vax Covid Prophylactic Home Remedies (Plus Bharat’s Nasal Vaccine)
Let’s save some lives!
Read more...The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Read more...John Helmer: Blinken Concedes War Is Lost – Offers Kremlin Ukrainian Demilitarization; Crimea, Donbass, Zaporozhe; and Restriction of New Tanks to Western Ukraine if There Is No Russian Offensive
Blinken offers a hollow set of concessions via the Washington Post. What is the real message?
Read more...Biden’s Documents Dilemma
Obama is the most likely hidden hand behind the Biden documents reveal. That fact confirms America having reached banana republic status.
Read more...German Greens on the Warpath
Washington’s favorite foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, undermines Scholz again and helps the US back the chancellor into a corner on Leopard tanks.
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