The Bank of England is in “Burn the village to save it” mode via interest rate increases which do little to address the causes of inflation.
Read more...The IRA methane emissions penalty “was weakened so that it applies to basically no one,” said one climate campaigner.
Read more...Puzzling why the EU seems determined to drive itself off a cliff.
Read more...Americans haven’t suffered the same level of energy price increases as the UK and Europe, yet a record number of households are buckling.
Read more...More botched Covid vaccine policy, lending support to suspicion that the real aim is lining the pockets of drug companies, not public health.
Read more...After being snubbed by NATO and the EU for decades, and suffering from extremely high inflation, Turkey is moving towards Russia.
Read more...There’s a lot not to like about the Biden student loan forgiveness scheme.
Read more...The emerging Russia-Iran gas OPEC is yet another threat to Western economies.
Read more...The UK is a serious and worsening cost of living crisis that’s impoverishing the former middle class. What will the political fallout be?
Read more...It may seem peculiar to offer a defense of sort to the IRS, since most people here regard doing their taxes with even less enthusiasm than a visit to the dentist (although attitudes depend very much on the state of one’s finances and teeth). However, the reporting on the Democratic Party plan to increase IRS […]
Read more...Abortion has heated up normally sleepy state and local attorney general races.
Read more...Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?
Read more...More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.
Read more...Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.
Read more...How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.
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