Saturday, July 5, 2025

Big Ag’s Road to Brazil

DeSmog re-launches investigative series to track agribusiness’ influence over climate and nature policy in a critical year for decisions on the future of food and farming.

Links 9/23/2024

The Fed’s Reactive-Looking Half-Point Rate Cut

The Fed’s half point rate reduction was unseemly large. What gives?

Atlanticism or Sovereignty? Fight in Germany Continues With Latest State Election

Germany’s loyal servants to Washington are being backed into a corner. 

Cheapflation and the Rise of Inflation Inequality in 2021-2023

Big companies victimized poor consumers via cheapflation: imposing greater price increases on low price goods than higher priced items

Fauci “Shares Insights on His Career” and the (On-Going) Covid Pandemic

Fauci’s blind spots and the Covid public health debacle.

Links 9/22/2024

Russian and Western Nuclear Industries Remain Interdependent

The close mutual industrial and market interdependencies between the Russian nuclear industry and its Western counterparts at least partially explain European hesitations to impose sanctions on the nuclear sector.

BRICS and De-Dollarization: An Alternative or Potential Disaster?

A discussion of some proposals for the BRICS de-dollarization project, suggesting a lack of convergence of ideas among key players.

Links 9/21/2024

An American Coup?

Did the US armed services refuse to execute an order by Biden, which would amount to a coup, or is the story more complex?

Countdown!

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2:00PM Water Cooler 9/20/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New RCP election 2024 charts (it’s still tied), and new Covid charts; Kamala on Oprah. Wowsers; Boeing negotiations stall, as layoffs continue. ~

How the “Rules-Based International Order” Uses Humanitarianism to Turn Refugees Into Disposable Migrant Labor

Book review: “Human Capital: A History of Putting Refugees to Work” by Laura Robson.