Category Archives: Guest Post

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/23/2023

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Energy Transition Advocates Get A Reality Check

Big Oil rollls out new messaging designed to stoke worry about green energy plans.

Links 3/23/2023

Crash Landing? Part 1 – Bonfire of the Banks

Satyajit Das looks at how banks got themselves into so much trouble and what the recent bailouts portend.

The Fed Accused of ‘Playing With Fire’ After Latest Rate Hike

The Fed confirms that its priority is crushing workers, and it believes it’s protected banks enough to allow it to continue.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/22/2023

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How Monetary Policy Affects Bank Lending and Financial Stability: A ‘Credit Creation Theory of Banking’ Explanation

Another nail in “loanable funds”, which justfies austerity but does not explain how central banks produce credit and monetary growht.

Links 3/22/2023

Medicare Advantage Uses Algorithms to Block Care for Seniors

How AI is institutionalizing Medicare Adantage fraud, to the degree that appeals of denials often outrun the patient’s life.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/21/2023

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Some US Farmers Get Behind Mexico’s GMO Corn Ban, Reports Mexican Daily La Jornada

“We believe that Mexico has every right to ask for what it wants,” says Lynn Clarkson, chief executive of Illinois-based Clarkson Grain company. “As a supplier, the United States should give its customers what they want.”

Why is America So Anti-City? It Holds Back the Entire Country

oth parties are exacerbating the city/country split. How different are their interests?

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/20/2023

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