Today’s Coffee Break on a holiday weekend in the US is the simple recommendation that you go straight to this long essay in Front Porch Republic by W. Aaron Vandiver of Carbondale, Colorado: Trump and the Furies of Empire –– Trump, in his crude way, is forcing us to confront the false stories we have […]
Read more...Humans have a strong, evolution-based desire for fairness and equality, yet they are more and more neglected in policy design.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains how the financier-friendly medicine of higher interest rates will only make the impending economic crisis worse.
Read more...In case you did not get the memo, human capital is now officially inferior.
Read more...Dear gentle readers: Apologies for a somewhat ragged Coffee Break today. Traveling in Scotland and time has been taken up with details (all good) along with a few unexpected disconnects (as in stuff happens). Part the First: Scientists to the Rescue? Economic growth is not the answer to any of our problems in this finite […]
Read more...An informative and wide-ranging conversation of how economic policies can neglect, support, or impede the prosecution of war
Read more...Part the First: Anti-amyloid Antibodies and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). A Cochrane review of monoclonal antibodies targeting amyloid plaques in AD has found that these drugs have little to no effect on cognitive function of AD patients. Cochrane reviews are, to use one of the favorite tropes of the current administration, considered the “gold standard” of […]
Read more...Economists typically ignore the impact of non-oil commodity shocks. They look to be at least as damaging as energy shocks.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Steve Keen: discuss how the Iran war economic crisis will generate inflation first, and then deflation and depression.
Read more...On the simplistic reasoning Robert Nozick used to justify inequality and a minimal state
Read more...Michael Hudson provides a deep dive into US foreign policy and its use of dollar dominance.
Read more...A timely recap of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of conspicuous consumption and its implication.
Read more...Persia’s 19th century fight to drive out the British investors who had obtained monopoly concessions is background to the current crisis.
Read more...It is a curious thing that our politicians and economists in the Uniparty believe that economic growth, now and forevermore, will solve all our problems and cure all our ills. One looks around and it’s clear this is not so. Still, this economics truth was stated with utmost, if utterly spurious, clarity by a former […]
Read more...AI is working according to plan, further enriching the owner class at the expense of workers.
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