Friday, September 25, 2026

Tag: global economy

Outpacing Foreign Aid, Migrant Remittances Are a Lifeline Ensuring Families Are...

Migrants now send home more money than foreign aid, and this is pulling rural families out of poverty, according to IFAD.

Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel...

Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.

US-Israel strikes on Iranian oil depots trigger environmental disaster and historic...

Bombing of energy infrastructure in Tehran sparks toxic rainfall warnings, record crude price surge, and accusations of war crimes as fires and smoke engulf Iran’s capital.

Renewables are a global economic engine, not a culture war threat

While oil is a cyclical commodity, and prices rise and fall over time, this time the decline is structural.

Trump’s tariff tsunami

The better-prepared industries and countries put up their own protective walls. The rest take out their lifejackets and hope for the best.

Bankruptcy is us

However it happens, he really does need to be trumped before he Trumps us all off this planet and global bankruptcy becomes us. 

Trade must be part of solution to plastic pollution, Global Trade...

The report confirmed that while trade in plastic surpassed $1.1 trillion 75 percent of the plastic produced becomes waste and ends up in the world’s oceans and ecosystems.

Is the World Order Collapsing?

Will world order will continue as is, with occasional disruptions and non-compliance?

Knowledge is not just power but what drives unrivaled US prosperity—slashed...

Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.

‘Grotesque spectacle’: CEO pay skyrockets 50% as worker wages stagnate

Oxfam analysis reveals global CEOs now earn 56 times more than average workers as corporate profits surge and economic inequality deepens on International Workers’ Day.

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The Charles R. Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Andre Carrotflower / CC BY-SA 4.0

EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The lobby of the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Photo: Daderot (public domain)

7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike

A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
A patient exam room at a U.S. urgent care clinic. Photo: Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage

Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.