Oopsie! Private equity firms are hanging on to investor money for an unseemly amount of time! What to do?
Friday, October 4, 2024
Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Trump polling shows effects of conviction among independents; first Harris mailer; Biden fundraiser video; H5N1 cluster continues apace ~
Insufficient Supervisory Board Competence as a Risk Factor for Banks
Banking and financial market expertise is by no means a given.
Next Stage – The General Staff’s Targets After Putin’s Feint
Putin threw down a marker with his immediately-rejected peace offer last week. So where might the war go now?
Giorgia Meloni and Europe’s Future
Does Italy’s decades-long breakdown of the social contract provide a glimpse of what’s coming for Germany and the rest of Europe?
Michael Hudson: Agricultural Imperialism in the EU
How the US has used control over the supply of key agricultural commodities to defend its hegemony.
Sixteen Dad Jokes in Honor of Father’s Day (with Zeisgeistiana)
What will a future Zeitgeist historian think?
Bird Flu Tests Are Hard To Get. So How Will We Know When To Sound the Pandemic Alarm?
“It’s hard to not compare this to covid, where early on we only tested people who had traveled.”
French Snap Elections: ‘Cohabitation’ Could Reshuffle the Cards Between President and Prime Minister
What are the practical consequences if French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc fares poorly in the upcoming snap elections?
Michael Hudson: US Cryptocurrency as an Offshore Banking Center
Yet another cryptocurrency scheme, here for its major use case, tax evasion. But for a good cause, the US dollar!
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; new Covid charts: stay safe out there; Kamala!; sleep and memory ~
