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.
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Saturday, July 5, 2025
Big Ag’s Road to Brazil
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 9:55 am | Comments Off on Big Ag’s Road to Brazil
Links 9/23/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 117 Comments »
The Fed’s Reactive-Looking Half-Point Rate Cut
The Fed’s half point rate reduction was unseemly large. What gives?
Topics: Banking industry, Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Investment outlook, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Real estate
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 44 Comments »
Atlanticism or Sovereignty? Fight in Germany Continues With Latest State Election
Germany’s loyal servants to Washington are being backed into a corner.
Topics: Energy markets, Europe, Politics, Russia, Social policy
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 46 Comments »
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
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:27 am | 22 Comments »
Fauci “Shares Insights on His Career” and the (On-Going) Covid Pandemic
Fauci’s blind spots and the Covid public health debacle.
Topics: Guest Post, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:25 pm | 29 Comments »
Links 9/22/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 177 Comments »
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.
Topics: Energy markets
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 4 Comments »
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.
Topics: Commodities, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Payment system, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 8:28 am | 43 Comments »
Links 9/21/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 161 Comments »
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?
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:41 am | 112 Comments »
Countdown!
The clock is ticking for the final hours of our fundraiser. Beat our countdown by supporting our work at the Tip Jar!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 pm | 6 Comments »
Down to the Wire for 2024 Fundraiser, Help Hit Our New Donor and $ Targets!
Help us with this last push to meet the final fundraiser goals! Invest in this community!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:05 pm | 3 Comments »
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. ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 94 Comments »
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.
Topics: Europe, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Middle East, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 9:30 am | 12 Comments »