Category Archives: Guest Post

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/28/2022

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The Grain Giants Have Made a Bonanza from Hunger. Time to Take Them Apart

The global food system, heavily influenced by the big grain companies, needs an overhaul to allow diverse crops, producers and supply routes

Links 10/28/2022

Credit Suisse is One of 13 Too-Big-to-Fail Banks in Europe, But It Looks Like It Could Be Failing

Following a string of scandals, bad investments and woeful risk management, Switzerland’s second largest bank, Credit Suisse, is close to the edge.

A Disordered World – Part 3: Pathways

Satyajit Das’ final post on where the world order is headed.

The Growing Chorus for Peace in Ukraine

It has now become barely acceptable to say it might be a good idea to seek an end to the Ukraine war.

Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Emerging Economy Victims of Climate Change

Climate equity is further complicating fossil fuel reduction plans, with poor countries arguing that the demands made for them are too high.

Links 10/27/2022

Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 2: Susceptibilities

Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/26/2022

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Sunak Has Been Set Up To Fail and the Likelihood Is That He Will

Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems

Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 1: Fracture

Satyajit Das provides a multi-facted overview of how key world structures are breaking as the US fights to preseve its imperial hold.

Energy Loss Is Single Biggest Component of Today’s Electricity System

A comparison of efficiency of electrical sources shows renewables come out markedly ahead.