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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Corn Bunting, Essonne, Île-de-France, France. “A male singing.” * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all...

Yves here. This post starts by stressing the importance of Social Security disability benefits and then goes on to focus on how the fact that real wage growth has been stagnant or...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, thank you for all the kind words about Water Cooler’s Covid coverage (after I whinged that I wasn’t sure anybody was reading it). –lambert P.S. The...

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. When I blegged for a link to Lance DeHaven-Smith’s Conspiracy Theory in America (CTA) I was overwhelmed by reader response, both in comments and in mail. (I...

Thank you for your readership and participation! And there are so many many people to whom we are very grateful for their help and encouraging words over the years. Back when we...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “‘The absence of a thing,’ the Baron said, ‘this can be as deadly as the presence.'” –Baron Harkonnen, Dune Once again, I’m perambulating the biosphere, but this...

Yves here. This post provides some official confirmation for the common-sense observation, that austerity, aks squeezing the middle class and the poors, produces distrust of government and radicalization. By Mathias Klein, Senior...

Berlin Hotel’s Huge Aquarium Bursts, With 1,500 Fish Inside New York Times (see also Giant aquarium bursts in Germany, killing 1,500 tropical fish and spilling 1 million litres of water ABC Australia,...

Yves here. Michael Hudson was interviewed Thursday on MEGA, a German news radio program, focusing on the economic impact of the war with Russia on major players, particularly Europe. We have a...