The (Attempted) Israelisation of Latin America
“We hope and believe that 2026 will be the year of Latin America,… one in which we see a positive change in the relations of the continent’s countries with Israel.”
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Inside the Economics of Venezuela’s Elusive Oil Reserves
Debunking Trump Venezuela oil claims.
Read more...Polymarket Manipulation and Other Guessing Games
How Polymarket traders using tools like “insider finder” to identify positions that look based on special intel can be fleeced.
Read more...Greenland and Irrational Responses to the Crisis of Capital Accumulation
The case that the tech bros desire for freedom cities and need for AI energy is driving the Greenland obsession.
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Ballad Of Orin (1977) Run Time: 1H 58M Plus Bonus Jazz!
Ballad of Orin is a movie about brief flashes of beauty in an ocean of despair.
Read more...1 Year Into Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration Is in Disarray
If you are so unfortunate as to need assistance from the Social Security Administration, good luck with that.
Read more...Book Review: A Portrait of the Arctic World in Flux
Neil Shea’s “Frostlines” captures the terror and beauty of the Arctic, a region often dismissed as “big, cold, white, and far away.”
Read more...The Day of the Dollar: Is It Over?
More on the prospects for the dollar. Even under Trump, it remains the cleanest shirt in the laundry bin.
Read more...Why Keir Starmer’s Partial “U-Turn” on Mandatory Digital IDs Is Merely a Symbolic Victory
The UK government has no intention of changing course. But can the resistance grow?
Read more...Critics Say Trump ‘Joke Healthcare Plan’ Nothing But a ‘Con’ of the American People
Trump’s latest afffordabilty headfake is a sketchy healthcare scheme.
Read more...The Ever-Shrinking Eldercare Workforce
Another health industry train wreck in the making is the rising difficulty of staffing so-called eldercare needs, particularly dementia care.
Read more...Climate Engineering Would Alter the Oceans, Reshaping Marine Life – Our New Study Examines Each Method’s Risks
Sadly, climate engineering, aka geo-engineering, is coming. Is it possible to properly assess risks and choose least-hazardous approaches?
Read more...How Voting Systems Influence Immigration Policy
How America’s liberal immigration regime was a predictable result of how we decide elections.
Read more...Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats
How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.
Read more...Venezuelan Oil and the Limits of U.S. Refining Capacity
Most economic analysis of Trump’s planned Venezuela oil heist has focused on production. Time for a wee look at refining.
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