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Naked Capitalism
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[l] at 1/15/26 12:00pm
The shifting power architecture of the Middle East explored through two new axes: religious politics and regard for territorial integrity

[Category: Coffee Break, Middle East, Politics]

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[l] at 1/15/26 7:55am
It has gotten through to Trump that the state of the economy, and particularly consumer suffering from persistently high costs, aka the affordability crisis, cant be solved by his barkers patter about how great things are. So hes roused himself to try to find some quick and easy wins so he can present himself as []

[Category: Banking industry, Credit cards, Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams]

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[l] at 1/15/26 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 1/15/26 4:54am
Another health industry train wreck in the making is the rising difficulty of staffing so-called eldercare needs, particularly dementia care.

[Category: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values]

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[l] at 1/15/26 12:21am
Sadly, climate engineering, aka geo-engineering, is coming. Is it possible to properly assess risks and choose least-hazardous approaches?

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Risk and risk management]

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[l] at 1/14/26 11:37pm
How America's liberal immigration regime was a predictable result of how we decide elections.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy]

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[l] at 1/14/26 12:00pm
Democrats react to the ICE-engendered crisis in Minnesota with their usual aplomb, savoir-faire, organization, coherence, and discipline. Just kidding.

[Category: Coffee Break]

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[l] at 1/14/26 7:55am
How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.

[Category: Banking industry, Currencies, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Payment system, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Risk and risk management, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class]

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[l] at 1/14/26 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 1/14/26 4:45am
Bill McKibben published The End of Nature in 1989 when he was in his twenties.  His book is generally recognized as the first to address what was then called global warming and now more properly labeled AGW, anthropogenic global warming.  I read the book when it was released and it made perfect sense to me []

[Category: Carbon credits, Global warming, Social policy, Social values, Technology and innovation]

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[l] at 1/14/26 3:11am
Most economic analysis of Trump's planned Venezuela oil heist has focused on production. Time for a wee look at refining.

[Category: Commodities, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Guest Post, Politics]

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[l] at 1/14/26 2:06am
More on Trump's plans to annex Greenland.

[Category: Commodities, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams]

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[l] at 1/13/26 12:00pm
Nuclear proliferation is no longer driven primarily by rogue ambition or regional instability. It is increasingly a rational response to a global order in which legal restraints on force are eroding and security guarantees appear contingent and unreliable. As military power displaces law as the ultimate arbiter of security, nuclear weapons reassert themselves as the only credible deterrent against coercion—pulling multiple threshold states toward rapid proliferation and dangerous alliance entanglements.

[Category: Coffee Break, Guest Post]

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[l] at 1/13/26 7:55am
How justifications for US foreign and economic policy revolve around the oil trade.

[Category: China, Commodities, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Guest Post, Politics, Russia]

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[l] at 1/13/26 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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[l] at 1/13/26 4:43am
“Sanctions are becoming the preferred weapon of the United States and some allies – not because they are less destructive, but because the toll is less visible,”

[Category: Guest Post]

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[l] at 1/13/26 3:52am
Better late than never: states are starting to file suits over ICE thuggery.

[Category: Guest Post, Legal, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state]

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[l] at 1/13/26 3:31am
A look at a Trump pretext for taking Greenland: its significant stores of oil, gas, and minerals, with the vast majority still underground.

[Category: Commodities, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Politics]

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[l] at 1/12/26 12:00pm
With the killing of Renee Good, Minneapolis has become the frontline of POTUS Trump's ICE incitement and the reasons why go back decades and across the globe to Somalia.

[Category: Coffee Break]

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[l] at 1/12/26 7:55am
Richard Murphy look at the growing number of high-paid professionals in the UK are choosing to work fewer hours. 

[Category: Income disparity, Social policy, Social values, UK]

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[l] at 1/12/26 4:55am

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