A Quick Note About Additional FTX Sleaze
Some shady FTX behavior that hopefully won’t be lost in the shuffle of new revelations.
Read more...Category Archives: Dubious statistics
University of California Comes to a Standstill as Academic Workers Strike
Workers at 10 UC campuses struck after the university system failed to offer compensation commensurate to the cost of living in California.
Read more...The Only Crypto Story You Need? A Response to Matt Levine’s The Crypto Story
A wide-ranging discussion of why defenses of crypto don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Worker’s Wages & Leverage are the Real Targets
Why did Corporate Democrats “cede” the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers’ bargaining power?
Read more...You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?
Nomi Prins warns that central banks’ strategies are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.
Read more...FTX: New Ex-Enron CEO Finds “Complete Absence of Trustworthy Financial Information,” $3.3 Billion Loans to SBF, Customer Deposits Not Recorded on Balance Sheets; Confirms Software Backdoors, Auto-Deleted Communications
FTX is an even bigger mess than someone with a creative streak might have imagined.
Read more...Book Review: The Surpisingly Imprecise History of Measurement
Why measurement is hard!
Read more...Knowledge Overconfidence: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
Read more...U.S. to Announce Plan for Private Companies to Fund International Renewable Energy Transition
Yet more proof that the US is far more inteested in green energy profiteering than doing the hard work to reduce the pace of climate change.
Read more...Limits to Growth: Inconvenient Truth of Our Times
Before the first UN environmental summit, The Limits to Growth showed Earth’s finite resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.
Read more...Collateral Damage From Higher Interest Rates
Why to be wary of Larry Summers selling another Volcker-type “kill the economy to save it” interest rate jihad.
Read more...Thieves’ Paradise in Kiev — IMF Admits It Doesn’t Know How Much Ukraine Has Received of $35 Billion in Promised Foreign Cash, or Where the Money Was Spent
It isn’t surprising that IMF funds to Ukraine are lost in action. What is surprising is the IMF isn’t pretending to care.
Read more...Is The IEA Too Optimistic About The Energy Transition?
The IAE says the Ukraine War and the energy crisis are speeding up the global energy transition, but a closer look shows there are reasons to be doubtful.
Read more...Scientist GM Is Not Impressed by Latest Preprint on Covid Lab Leak Hypothesis
Another dodgy Covid preprint gets way too much attention.
Read more...How Corporations “Get Away With Murder” to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity
Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are jacking up prices far beyond their cost increases.
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