Labour’s dilemma — which has parallels in other countries — leads to vague aspirations that are almost meaningless, and probably undeliverable. So, what should it do?
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Sunday, March 9, 2025
There’s No Growth, so What Should Labour Do?
Topics: Brexit, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Social values, UK
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 40 Comments »
For Homeless Seniors, Getting Into Stable Housing Takes a Village — And a Lot of Luck
Another indictment of America’s claims of superiority: a coming tsunami of homeless elderly
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:52 am | 18 Comments »
Los Angeles Fires: A Guide for Making Sure Your Home Insurer Pays What It Owes
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Legal, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:08 am | 2 Comments »
Links 1/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 156 Comments »
What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like?
The gangster state’s bust out of Europe is set to accelerate as the EU center embraces its true nature.
Topics: Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Private equity, Privatization, Russia, Social policy
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 83 Comments »
David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture
Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.
Topics: Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 34 Comments »
Links 1/18/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 168 Comments »
Was Biden Right to Warn about the Tech-Industrial Complex?
On Biden’s self-serving and lame warning about the evils of the tech-industrial complex, which to him amounts to social media disinformation.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:47 am | 40 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada
Michael Hudson on the method in Trump’s seeming madness in laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
Topics: China, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:10 am | 50 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid charts that Lambert does not like; Faiz Shakir throws his hat in the DNC ring; Ancient Britain a matriarchal society? ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 151 Comments »
mBridge, a Bank of International Settlements Project Hyped by BRICS Fans as a Way to Evade Sanctions, Shut Down
Our debunking the hype of the purported BRICS payment potential of a BIS project, mBridge, has proven to be true, and then some.
Topics: Banking industry, Currencies, Global warming, Payment system, Politics, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:31 am | 17 Comments »
Links 1/17/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 166 Comments »
New York Judge Loretta Preska Just Declared Open Season on Argentina’s Gold Reserves
The question is: where is the gold?
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 13 Comments »
Actuaries and Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Risk ‘Planetary Insolvency’ as Power Struggles About How to Rebuild LA Begin
A new report shows a 50% GDP fall from 2070 to 2090 due to climate change. Los Angeles gives a taste of coming struggles about what to do.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Legal, Politics, Real estate, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 34 Comments »
Closing Ranks: Organised Labour and Immigration
Quelle surprise! Historically, high levels of immigration in the US led to more union formation.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:03 am | 4 Comments »