US EPA Enables Polluting Plastics Plants by Failing to Update Wastewater Limits, Report Says
Yves here. Due to so much competing news, we’ve been light on climate and environment coverage. Established readers may recall
Info Finance
Excellent post by Vitalik on prediction markets and the broader category of what he calls info finance: Now, we get
China’s Libertarian Medical City
You’ve likely heard of Prospera, the private city in Honduras established under the ZEDE (Zone for Employment and Economic Development)
Netanyahu Replaces Fired Israeli Defense Minister With ‘Another Genocidal Lunatic’
Yves here. I hate to sound like a stickler regarding the Common Dreams post reproduced below. Trying to find differences
Spinoza is ten years old today
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What Financial Markets Say About the Economic Implications of a Potential Trump Election Victory
By Sören Karau, senior economist in the economics department (Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates and Capital Markets Analysis) at the
‘Money in Exchange for Silence’: Behind Neom’s Green Image, Western Firms Cash in on Saudi Commitment to Oil
Lambert here: Strong original reporting from DeSmog. Every so often, Saudi propaganda for Neom comes across my feed, and it’s
The Medici’s Quiet Coup: How the Wealthy Bend Politics without Shifting Institutions
Lambert here, speculating freely: The world-systems analyst Giovanni Arrighi argued (I paraphrase from memory) that the “center of gravity,” as