Central banks, inflation, jobs, growth and global economic policy.
Our testy links: Houthi lighting strike takes key island + most of Bab el Mandeb coast, Saudis close key pipeline, US diesel over $6 and Brent nears $110, El Nino snarls Asia ports, UK bond yields spike, 9/11, Isreal des...
Why the war in Africa’s Great Lakes is entering its fourth decade and may never end.
What happens when an AI values its own survival?
Climate denialists want federal judges to remain in the dark while the state of scientific research continues to decline
Large methane emissions are easy to detect and often fairly easy to contain, yet few of the big sinning countries are taking action.
RFK, Jr. wants to wean many Americans off antidepressants. How sound are his views?
Israel helps manufacture the myth of an "Islamic Invasion of the West," which the far right uses to distract from systemic Western crises
The election of New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the surprising performance of Democratic Socialist or DSA-aligned candidates in Democratic primaries across the United States is reviving interest in socialism as a conce...
Capitalism comes in many flavors. Sadly, the neoliberal one that has become dominant is particularly rancid.
Our stalwart daily links: Trump tries to buy votes, Zelensky fundraises at a funeral, Islamic NATO in action, and August hottest month ever recorded.
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the workplace, which jobs will remain valuable—and what makes them resistant to automation? Economist Luis Garicano, coauthor of Messy Jobs: The Work that AI Cannot Reach, discu...
As the global trading system exists in an uncertain equilibrium while resting on a stable core, it is pertinent to imagine a new order without sliding into the deeper economic fragmentation, protectionism, and geopolitic...