Could a Crash Halve Stock Prices?
US and UK stock prices are in nosebleed terrain. How far could they fall?
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The Global Food Crisis
A hard look at the possible severity of the coming global food crisis and how it demands new approaches to analysis and decisions.
Read more...More Testosterone Won’t Make a Better Soldier or a Tougher Man – Aggression and Strength Drive T Levels, Not the Other Way Around
Pete Hegseth is almost predictably wrong. His beliefs about testosterone supplementation are par for the course.
Read more...Michael Hudson with Radhika Desai: We’re Headed for a Depression Worse Than 2008
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai discuss how much of supposed US economic performance is illusory, and what happens when it unwinds.
Read more...Knee Pain? Ragged Cartilage? Research Suggests Surgery’s Not the Best Answer
Some news you can use: on a dodgy knee procedure that while deservedly falling in popularity, is still being practiced.
Read more...On the US-EU Productivity Debate: James Galbraith Responds to Paul Krugman
An exchange about American versus European productivity is really about the US need to substantiate its superior status.
Read more...Trapped at Home: Climate Stress Is More Likely to Immobilize the Poor Than to Move Them
A new study argues that climate change will not produce mass migration of the poor, using debatable assumptions.
Read more...Coffee Break: More on American Science, Thomas Jefferson and AI, and Natural History for the Ages
Part the First: Beware of Resting on the Shoulders of Atlas. Dr. Scott Atlas is a radiologist who is now ensconced in the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford (naturally, and in the tower, no less). One can only surmise from the general run of their work product that (true) Revolution and […]
Read more...Greenspan Ran the Fed for 18 Years and Left an Economic Time Bomb
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: take a hard look at Greenspan’s misrule at the Fed and find more not to like than you might know about
Read more...Coffee Break: Apathetic Americans, Science Agonistes, and Cool Science
Part the First: Jessica Wildfire on Apathetic Americans. As a paid-up member of the Professional Managerial Class who came from a thoroughly working-class background, I tend to hear and see things differently from most of my colleagues. An enduring theme among them is “They just don’t seem to care…” Not exactly. From Heads Above Water: […]
Read more...When Trust in Official Statistics Declines
The Trump firing of the BLS chief imposed costs by lowering faith in official statistics and increasing uncertainty.
Read more...Progress in Understanding Early-Onset Cancers?
Cancer has been recognized as an environmental disease since the first description of chimney sweep’s cancer by Percivall Pott in 1775. The primary social determinant of this disease is described well in this article Lancet Oncology (Abstract then unfortunately a paywall), even if the “social determinants of health” are anathema during our MAHA Moment. More […]
Read more...Bank of International Settlements Warns That AI Crash Could Produce Investment Drought, Economic Contraction and Even a Crisis
The Bank of International Settlements took a look at the AI bubble. Not surprisingly, it found a lot not to like.
Read more...People Are Marrying Holograms and Making Friends with Chatbots. But Can AI Bring True Happiness?
How AI companions enable the junk-food version of happiness sold by materialistic, externally-oriented societies.
Read more...Putin Powerfully Rebuffed the Hawks Who Want Him to Attack NATO
Putin cleared his throat to smack down the idea that Russia should seek to mix things up with NATO.
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