Category Archives: Guest Post
Michael Hudson Discusses Debt, Financial Surveillance, the Fed and More With Ralph Nader
Michael Hudson has a wide-ranging talk with Ralph Nader.
Read more...Russian Partial Mobilization: And Then There Were None
Two Russian militarty experts comment on the partial mobilization and what might come next.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/23/2022
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Read more...Australian State Government Bails Out Owners of Taxi Licenses After Uber Destroys Their Value
The NSW government allowed Uber’s illegal market entry and now makes consumers pay to bail out taxi license owners. Having paid to bail out taxi owners, the NSW taxi industry will nonetheless be completely deregulated.
Read more...Links 9/23/22
Ramping Up Renewables Won’t Save The World From A Cold Winter
Renewables alone won’t be able to supply our coming energy needs. A decline in nuclear power as well as local production and storage of natural gas has left places like Europe particularly vulnerable to energy shortages in the winter.
Read more...The US-Led War on Drugs, Now in Its 51st Year, Just Hit a Major Snag in Colombia
After a million deaths in Latin America, Washington’s staunchest ally in the region just called time on the US’ “irrational war against drugs”.
Read more...Is ‘Seize Now, Sort It Later’ Itself an Assault on Liberty?
In a novelist’s world, there’d be two attacks on liberty, and the public would be led to see one of them.
Read more...Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
How so-called free trade has often brought large scale death, sometimes by design.
Read more...Links 9/22/2022
Satyajit Das: Emerging Market Crisis Pathologies
Why emerging markets look set to suffer a world of hurt.
Read more...Housing Bubble Woes: Home Prices Drop 3.5%, Steepest Monthly Drop since Jan. 2016. Sales, Already at Lockdown Levels, Drop Further. Active Listings Rise Further
The housing market in the US, not surprisingly, is looking pretty punky.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/21/2022
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Read more...What the Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan Is Really About and Why It’s Likely to Get Worse
By Conor Gallagher Ever since the breakup of the USSR, Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave recognized as Azerbaijani territory by the international community but mostly populated by ethnic Armenians. They fought a war there two years ago when Azerbaijan grabbed land in a six-week conflict that led […]
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