Category Archives: Guest Post

The EU Sows the Seeds of Its Own Destruction

Brussels’ increasing attacks on the working class mirror decades-long Italian efforts that have caused a collapse in standard of living and trust in the EU.

3M Offers $10.3B Settlement Over PFAS Contamination in Water Systems – Now, How Do You Destroy a ‘Forever Chemical’?

One big challenge is making sure remediation efforts don’t make the problem even worse.

From Pugachev To Lebed – The Muzhik Rebellion Fizzles Out Without Bloodshed, Prigozhin to Exile

The Prigozhin rebellion is looking to be not that much more than a one day wonder.

A New Third World Debt Crisis? The Need for System Change

Emerging economies look to be on the verge of a whole lotta debt hurt. Why does this happen to them so often?

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/23/2023

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Why Interest Rate Rises Are Fueling Inflation

Is central bank inflatin medicine even worse than it seems?

Is A New Housing Crisis Brewing in Spain?

Spain is one of the European economies that was hardest hit by the COVID-19 virus crisis. Now, after years of falling real incomes, millions of families are facing skyrocketing mortgage payments as a result of rapidly rising interest rates.

Links 6/23/2023

ER Doctor: “Private Equity in Medicine is Dangerous to Patients”

Dr. Ming Lin, fired by a private equity company for objecting to poor Covid practices, argues that doctors need to be in charge of patient care

Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health

A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?

Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings

Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.

Thus We Fall: June Temperature Spike Confirms Dire Climate Change Forecasts

The trajectory of climate change is starting to look worse.

A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves

Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/21/2023

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Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds

The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.