Yves here. KLG reviews the recent Simon Schama book, Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations. While he...

McKinsey has agreed to a settlement, subject to court approval, which will enable the giant consulting firm to settle the...

Yves here. For the technically-minded, below is a slightly more detailed discussion of FCC internet service provider designation that the...

Yves here. A predictable outcome of fracking, which is contamination of aquifers, may be happening on a big enough scale...

Seahorse Love Works in Mysterious Ways Nautlius (Micael T) How Tsarist Russia sought to make a tropics on the Black...

Aurelien published a very important post last week, So They Want Negotiations, Now.. It included a deep dive on the...

Yves here. This post is useful for not merely describing how at least one US surveillance firm is trying to...

Yves here. Simon Johnson, former IMF Chief Economist and now a professor at MIT’s Sloan School, provides an update on...

Yves here. I hate to be a stickler, but I used the subhead of this Geopolitical Economy Hour rather than...

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