Category Archives: Guest Post

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/30/2023

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The New York Times Thinks Worker Suffering Is a Fair Price for Lower Inflation

Per the Times, inflation must be tackled, and the only way to do so is through lowering incomes and potentially jacking up unemployment.

Links 6/30/2023

The Digital Euro, Like All Prospective CBDCs, Has a Serious Marketing Problem

CBDCs may be all the rage among central bankers, but as long as they offer little in the way of public benefit while posing huge risks to privacy, anonymity and other basic freedoms, they will struggle to gain traction.

Rob Urie: Mr. Prigozhin Goes to Washington

Rob Urie uses some widely-ignored aspects of the Prigozhin mutiny as a point of entry to explore the US relationship to Russia.

Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis

The tough policy choices ahead for confronting the climate crisis.

Links 6/29/2023

Energy Destinies – Part 3: Energy Storage – Inconvenient Complications

Satyajit Das continues his in-depth analysis on whether the green energy revolution can deliver on its promises, focusing today on batteries.

Oil Prices, Oil Profits, Speculation, and Inflation

n the not inconsiderable role of speculation in the crude oil market in the increase in the WTI crude oil price.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/28/2023

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‘Really Big’: US Supreme Court Ruling Against Norfolk Southern Seen as Rebuke to Corporate Impunity

The Supreme Court nixed a Constitutional challenge to a Pennsylvania registration law that subjects compnaies to its jurisdiction.

America Has Just Destroyed a Great Empire

America is making a mess in trying to preserve its hegemony.