The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has been a great sigh of diplomatic Continue Reading
The post The Euro Without German Industry first appeared on Michael Hudson.My favourite BBC article has been rewritten again and more inaccuracies added. Let’s go through them.
So far so good for Q3 that ended Sep 30- about in line with pre-Covid growth rates: Much like the US, much of the rest of the world is hiking rates with high debt/GDP and supporting their economies that had slowed from fiscal contraction with massive government interest payments- universal basic income for those who […]
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After well over a decade of strategic activism in Los Angeles, Breed Street’s “last vendor” is celebrating a new statewide measure that gives street food vendors new rights and opportunities.
Rising asset values such as stocks may have contributed to early retirements among those leaving the labor force during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Signs are an important way for all workplaces to keep their staff safe. Signage is the most obvious way to identify any hazards or dangers. They are a government requirement in all workplaces and inspections are carried out to ensure these signs are placed in the correct spots and visible to avoid any issues. For…
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Every company must offer a safe workplace for its employees, be it a small business or a large industrial plant. In a very large industrial context such as a manufacturing company, the installation of electrical cabinet vents is not enough to make the environment safe. It is also necessary to invest in the ventilation of the cabinet…
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Last week, after Hurricane Ian ravaged Florida, The New York Times ran this story by Matt Flegenheimer. The article opens with the following passages: As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the New York region after Hurricane Sandy was an irresponsible boondoggle, a symbol of the “put it on the credit card mentality” he had come to Washington to oppose.
Lots of commodities to or near pre-Covid levels: Still looking lower but still positive and not yet indicating recession:
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Developing a Black-focused birdwatching group for people of color in Michigan took a dogged willingness to bypass those standing "in the way."
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The legacy of redlining in Fresno isn’t just linked to housing access. It also has deadly effects on air quality and preterm birth.
As foreign patenting continues to grow, East Asia has become both the main origin of innovations and the main destination for patent protection.
When the HM Government buys anything, all the money to pay for it is automatically borrowed from the Bank of England, interest free and without limit
Since I’m actively trying to learn a second language, people often tell me
that watching Mexican TV can be a good way to learn Spanish. Your results
may vary, but I have not found that to be true at all for several reasons.
The first is that Mexican TV…
Tomorrow, I have the honor of speaking to a very large group of high-school students in the UK. I only wish there was something exciting going on in the world of finance and economics over there. 😉 I was invited to talk about my book, which I will do, but obviously we have to do it in the context of recent events. Fortunately, I’ve been following things pretty closely, so I can draw on what I’ve written in these posts:
I think this could be a 1 day exploration at least to figure out if it will work, but it is beyond my python ability. Idea: OCR the labels of our 78rpm records, then take an image of a new … Continue reading
Many of you know that I co-host a weekly podcast called the Best New Ideas in Money. Last week, Charles Passy (my co-host) and I got to do something we’ve never done before—record a live episode. You can click here to subscribe to the podcast or here
November 3, Denver, CO
For decades private renters in many countries have spent roughly the same share of income on housing.
by Omer Tekdemir* These days we are witnessing a growing interest in Karl Polanyi’s framework to explain the organic crisis of neoliberalism, including the populist reaction; while Antonio Gramsci has always been popular within a wide range of movement studies from different disciplines.My recently published monograph Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds: Social Embeddedness, Hegemony, […]
I’ve been thinking about the events that unfolded after British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, released their so-called “mini budget.” It seems that almost everyone has embraced some version of this explanation: Truss/Kwarteng: “Behold, our economic plan!”
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