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Iran War: More Trump Sound and Fury as Financial Times and Old Line Neocon Robert Kagan Declare War on Iran Conflict; Plastics and Other Shortages Becoming Visible
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Links 5/12/2026 | naked capitalism
The Criminal Enterprise Run by Monkeys Wall Street Journal (Li). No, not OpenAI. We missed this when first…
A Fairness Trilemma in Hiring
Economists like to draw triangles. In trade, you can’t have high tariffs, no retaliation, and unchanged prices. In…
How the Green Revolution Went Awry: Food Systems and Policies Undermining Food Security
Yves here. This short but very important post by Jomo explains how the Green Revolution wound up weakening…
Anticipating Real Hourly Wages for April
CPI deflated and using AIER “Everyday Price Index”: Figure 1: Average hourly earnings deflated by CPI (blue), by…
Trump Regime Combines Reality Show Nonsense With Very Real Grifting
Trump’s Transportation Secretary distracts with an ill-timed reality show even as an AI company linked to the Trump…
