Category Archives: Guest Post

Links 7/8/2023

The United States’ Financial Quandary: ZIRP’s Only Exit Path Is a Crash

Michael Hudson takes a long, hard look at the origins and costs of the Fed’s ZIRP policy.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/7/2023

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Economics v. the Earth: New Book Explores the History of a Tense Relationship

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind discuss how belief in infinite growth came to seem reasonable in philosophy and economics.

Links 7/7/2023

The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?

Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.

It’s Hard for Americans to Engage in China-Bashing Without Tripping on Contradictions

There are no doubt good reasons for Americans to be concerned about China, but our official justificaitons don’t stand up to scrutiny.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/6/2023

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Energy Destinies – Part 4: Renewable Economics – At Cost

newable energy costs are not easy to figue out, and fully loaded, not favorable compared to the benchmark of grid parity.

Is Wagner Group Too Big to Fail?

John Helmer gives a somewhat contraian take on the Wagner Group and what the unwind of the Prigozhin affair means for Putin’s reelection.

Rising Sea Levels Will Isolate People Long Before They’re Underwater

One of the near term impacts of higher sea levels willl be balkanization of low-lying coastal areas.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/5/2023

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