The Irrationality of Markets
More evidence that the current level of advanced economy secondary market trading is bad for economic health.
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Department of Pre-Crime, TSA Edition
The TSA is now harassing mere pretty mild political dissenters via intrusive bag checks and deploying heavy-duty surveillance teams
Read more...Eight Reasons Mask Bans Are Beyond Stupid
Eight talking points on mask bans.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/8/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Read more...Book Review: You Talking to Me? How Human Language Evolved
Prehistory professor Steven Mithen’s “The Language Puzzle” explores the mysteries of when and how we began to speak.
Read more...Links 8/8/2024
Satyajit Das: The Middle East’s A Dance of Death – Part 3: Spillover
Why the prospects for containing, much the less resolving, the escalating Middle East conflict, are poor.
Read more...World-Ending Maneuvers? Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today
Even if the looming Israel-Iran conflict does not produce a regional war or worse, the ICBM lobby poses another huge risk to collective safety
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; irrational exuberance among the Democrats; introducing Walz; Boeing’s Starliner debacle ~
Read more...Democrats’ VP Choice Tim Walz Has a History of Working on the Side of Monied Interests Against Workers
Walz’s folksy persona helps mask standard neoliberal positions, and Minnesota workers paid the price.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Middle East’s Dance of Death – Part 2: Fallout
Satyajit Das, continuing his series on the contemporary Middle East, focuses on the Al Aqsa Flood attack and Israel’s response.
Read more...What’s Wrong and Right with Project 2025
Why the Project 2025 dog’s breakfast of proposals bears watching.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; best Olympic story; Walz is Kamala’s VP choice; Climate tipping points unpredictable; Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga Art ~
Read more...What Is the Milei Government Doing With Argentina’s Gold?
Argentina’s cash-strapped central bank has around two million troy ounces of gold in its vaults, valued at around $4.5 billion. Or at least it did.
Read more...Despite the Recession-Emergency-Rate-Cut Buffoonery, the Services Sector Expands Strongly on Growth in New Orders & Employment. Inflation Pressures Still On
Services are two-thirds of the economy; as long as they’re firm, the economy will plug along just fine, even as manufacturing stalled
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