2:00PM Water Cooler 6/16/2023
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Links 6/16/2023
The UK’s Tory Government, With Labour’s Help, Just Took Another Big Step Toward Outlawing Peaceful Political Protest
“The move – which uses secondary legislation to bring the powers into force – violates the constitutional principle of the separation of powers because the measures have already been rejected by Parliament.”
Read more...Fast Food Suppliers Contribute to Increases in BMI and Decreases in IQ
Using Norwegian registry data, this column documents that the increased supply of fast food restaurants could be responsible for as much as 35% of the increase in BMI and 27% of the decline in cognitive ability observed across cohorts born during the 1980s.
Read more...Why Student Debt Is So High
The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth. How surprising is that?
Read more...Correcting the Record on the Origin Story of Beowulf’s Trillion Dollar Coin
What it says on the tin, or rather the platinum.
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Read more...The Unsung Heroes of the “Children Lost in the Amazon” Story: Amazonia’s Gardeners
What did the lost children eat during their 40 days? And who planted it?
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In Court Testimony, Climate Scientists Rebuke Montana for Support of Fossil Fuels
The landmark trial marks the first time in US history that kids are testifying in court about the effects of climate change on their wellbeing.
Read more...Powell on the New Hawkishness in the Dot Plot and on Inflation: “We See that it Tells Us that We Need to Do More”
The Fed’s Powell: Core inflation “has not really moved down. It has not reacted much to our rate hikes. We’re going to have to keep at it.”
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Read more...Annual Numbers of Excess Deaths in the US Relative to Other Developed Countries Are Growing at an Alarming Rate
America continues to be exceptional, here in our level of excess deaths.
Read more...Energy Destinies – Part 1: Power Needs and Sources – Balancing Barrels
Satyajit Das provides a series on the energy transition, starting with the historical role of energy and supply and demand patterns.
Read more...What’s Behind the US-Driven Reforms Coming to the World Bank?
Former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga takes over as World Bank president as the organization is embarking on a series of reforms requested by Washington.
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