Inflation Is Not What We Need to Worry About: the Risk of Major Collapse in the Private Sector Is What Should Be Troubling Us Right Now
Inflation may have you freaked out, but there are bigger threats on the horizon.
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What’s the Carbon Footprint of a Wind Turbine?
Many studies have found that the wind turbine beats fossil fuels handsomely , at least in carbon costs. But is that the whole story?
Read more...The Data Privacy Paradox and Digital Demand
Data privacy worrywarts appear to be the most promiscuous. What gives?
Read more...Myths, Lobbies Foster Competitive International Corporate Tax Cutting
Bad ideology, kept alive by lobbying and PR, has fueled an unproductive corporte tax race to the bottom. Is the tide finally turning?
Read more...Covid Vaccine Whack-a-Mole?
Vaccine enthusiasm has blinded people who should know better to Covid downside risks. And as Taleb warned, tails are fat.
Read more...Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A $50 Billion Mississippi River Diversion Plan?
Questions about Louisiana’s plans to reroute the mighty Mississppi to save its eroding coast rattle the agency spearheading them
Read more...How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong
Gail Tvergberg explains why oil prices are likely to remain be lower than full costs, and how that undermines the move to cleaner energy.
Read more...The Politics of ‘Follow the Science’
How the ralllying cry of “Follow the science” is looking more and more like sloganeernig as opposed to best practice.
Read more...Decade Of Chaos Could Send Oil To $130 Per Barrel
Oil mavens are stymied at guessing what the commodity’s price trajectory might be.
Read more...The Pandemic Is Us (But Now Mostly Them)
The pandemic is largely to be over in the Global North, at least among the vaccinated…or so it seems.
Read more...Food Insecurity: A Potentially Underrated Collateral Damage of the Pandemic
Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
Read more...Rethinking Unemployment: From Adam Smith to Marx “Reserve Army of the Unemployed” to the Neoliberal War on Full Employment
Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Read more...Ranked Choice and Most-Least Voting
Ranked choice voting is getting a following in America. But how does it work in practice compared to similar-seeming systems like most-least?
Read more...How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible
Oil companies hire accountants to legitmate inflated financial claims. Investors and regulators are targeting these auditors for fraud.
Read more...Bob Pollin: Modest Inflation Is Good for Workers
If inflation is linked to higher wages, that’s not bad for workers, says Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst.
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