Homelessness Among Older People Is on the Rise, Driven by Inflation and the Housing Crunch
Rising housing and medical costs meet fixed incomes to push older peope into desperation and homelessness.
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Knowledge Overconfidence: “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
Some studies seek to understand why some dogs won’t eat the dogfood, as in accept what is considered to be scietific knowledge.
Read more...Government Surveillance at 2022 U.N. Climate Conference
Gambling in Casablanca! Spying in Sharm el-Sheikh, at the COP27 conference! Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/9/2022
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day European Turtle-Dove, Kelling Heath, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only […]
Read more...U.S. to Announce Plan for Private Companies to Fund International Renewable Energy Transition
Yet more proof that the US is far more inteested in green energy profiteering than doing the hard work to reduce the pace of climate change.
Read more...A Stunning Political Comeback for Israel’s Netanyahu May Give Way to Governing Nightmare Ahead
Has the wily Netanyahu backed himself into a corner?
Read more...2022 Election Night Live Blog/Open Thread
Live Blog/Open Thread for 2022 midterm results
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/8/2022
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Read more...Limits to Growth: Inconvenient Truth of Our Times
Before the first UN environmental summit, The Limits to Growth showed Earth’s finite resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.
Read more...NHS to Use US “Spy-Tech” Firm Palantir’s Platform to Extract Patient Data Without Patient Consent
Palantir, with intimate ties to defense, intelligence and security industries around the world, seems set to play an even larger role in the UK’s crisis-ridden National Health System (NHS).
Read more...Real Progressives Live with Michael Hudson: The Destiny of Civilization
Michael Hudson explains how financial capitalism won the struggle with industrial capitalism and gave rentiers the upper hand.
Read more...Trump and the Republican Base: A Machine Learning Approach
Economic issues are a primary part of Trump’s appeal to his base
Read more...What “Our Democracy” Should Look Like When Voting: A Simple Plan
We should create policy on the basis of the worst case scenario that the electoral system is run by a criminal class, and create checks and balances that prevent the crooks from taking over voting and corrupting the results.
Read more...Links 11/7/2022
Has this Contorted Labor Market Forced Companies to Change their Thinking about Layoffs?
There is now mounting anecdotal evidence that many employers are having second thoughts about laying off people at the first signs they see their revenue growth get into trouble.
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