Category Archives: Guest Post

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

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

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.

Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life

Virtual You is (supposedly) coming! Should you embrace it or run the other way?

The Economic Effects of Military Support for Ukraine: Evidence from Fiscal Multipliers in Donor Countries

An argument that spending on Ukraine is not quite as unproductive as it seems.

Masks ARE a Fashion Item! In Asia.

A look at Hong Kong-based MaskLab.

US Troops Are in Peru to Counter Chinese and Russian Influence in Latin America, Reports Peruvian News Outlet

Peruvian troops’ “training alongside US forces will help to improve their capabilities and strengthen the operational performance of [Peruvian] Special Forces, boosting their interoperability with NATO systems and doctrine.”

The Silent Slaughter of the Flower of Ukraine’s Youth

The bloody war in Ukraine has reached the carnage phase, as least for Urkaine’s men and their backers.

Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent

Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.

Links 6/19/2023

Profit Inflation Is Real

More evidence that companies hiking prices because they can is a significant driver of our current inflation.

Are the Canadian Wildfires Really “Natural” Disasters?

“Only you can prevent wildfires” is neoliberal nonsense.