International Monetary Fund
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The US economy if far outpacing the economies of the other members of the G7. The US has seen its GDP grow by a total of 7.4% since the fourth quarter of 2019, according to seasonally-adjusted figures from the OECD. Canada and Italy hovered between...
by NHBred
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 08:54 AM PST
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America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious. Brief History & Theoretical Concepts in International Relations The balance of power within the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM PST
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There is a must-read article in Fortune magazine: ‘In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight’: China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya I have seen bits and pieces of this dribbling out for the past several years,...
by xaxnar
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on Fri May 19, 2023 at 11:13 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Apr 14, 2023 at 09:09 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Feb 08, 2022 at 08:59 PM PST
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Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors, and guest writers. �We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful, and even ...
by LamontCranston
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on Thu Jan 21, 2021 at 03:29 AM PST
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I did some back of the envelope estimates of the cost of the fossil fuels we use in a year.
The source of these figures is the USA DOE Energy Information Agency https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php
But any mistakes in arithmetic are my own.
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by gmoke
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on Wed Jul 03, 2019 at 12:16 PM PDT
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Foreign Minster of Canada Chrystia Freeland reminded the guests at Ukrainian lunch event in Munich that reforms are needed not to please the Western partners, but to fulfill the needs of Ukraine as a state and Ukrainian citizens.
Chrystia Freeland...
by Vencel
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on Sun Feb 18, 2018 at 06:23 AM PST
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To say that the slogan “ America First ” has a checkered past in the United States is an understatement of epic proportions. Launched in the spring of 1940 on the eve of Hitler’s conquest of ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Aug 06, 2017 at 02:00 PM PDT
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The World Economic Forum has only just ended and one of its main conclusions keeps echoing into our ears every day all around the globe: the clear reality that if wealth and resources are not shared better, there may be dire consequences.
In our...
by Charles Kieslowski
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on Thu Feb 23, 2017 at 09:25 AM PST
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Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor
I was going to do another music diary on...
by BOHICA
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on Wed Dec 28, 2016 at 07:31 AM PST
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Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-winning economist and former chief economist at the World Bank, is not a stranger to making big statements about how dubious a lot of conventional modern economic theory is when applied by first world nations. He has been...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Aug 02, 2016 at 08:40 AM PDT
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While researching bringing water to desert regions, like how Israel is helping California build one of the Biggest plants in Western Hemisphere,
I found out that as Libyan President Gaddafi was very forward thinking on this subject as well.
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by wade norris
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on Fri Apr 29, 2016 at 01:05 PM PDT
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Part I of this series discusses the history and conditions leading up to the military coup d'etat in 1976. Part II reveals the mechanisms and pervasiveness of brutal torture and murder by the state during the dictatorship. Part III explores the...
by Krotor
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on Wed Mar 30, 2016 at 05:22 PM PDT
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There is plenty of doom and gloom at Davos and it could be we are due for another cyclical piece of devastation.
Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff said the fear in the markets stems from a dawn
by LaFeminista
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on Wed Jan 20, 2016 at 10:21 PM PST
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(Responses to my 2 previous blogs have been mixed, and I appreciate the time each of you has taken to give sometimes lengthy critiques of my views, points, and perhaps my knowledge or the lack thereof
by snokej
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on Mon Jan 11, 2016 at 01:18 AM PST
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Josesph Stiglitz is (as usual) required reading here: www.project-syndicate.org/…
Every advanced country has a bankruptcy law, but there is no equivalent framework for sovereign
by emorej a Hong Kong
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on Thu Nov 12, 2015 at 09:27 PM PST
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Sometimes a song just has to use the word fuck. Case in point Bruce Cockburn's "Call It Democracy". I nice angry rant about the International Monetary Fund. See the lyrics below the orange doodad ...
by BOHICA
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on Thu Oct 22, 2015 at 05:09 AM PDT
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The Guardian's weekly column, "The Long Read" this week is "Three days to save the Euro." I was on the edge of my seat through it last summer, and this retelling held my attention through it all ...
by Back Porch philosopher
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on Wed Oct 21, 2015 at 11:49 PM PDT
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The Eurozone is an instrument of the globalization process that is setting financial elites over all nations of the world, including the democracies. The situation in Greece exposes the true nature ...
by Letsgetitdone
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on Sat Aug 15, 2015 at 09:23 PM PDT
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