Biden Expands Oil Exploration in Bid to Slow Climate Change
Biden’s decided to open the door to further offshore oil exploration: we must kill the planet in order to save it.
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What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2022
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Read more...The Incredibly Cool James Webb Space Telescope
An exquisitely sensitive infrared astronomical observatory….
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Climate Change Risks to Sovereign Debt: How Integrated Assessment Models Inform Our Understanding
Evidence suggests that sovereign debt markets are taking climate effects into account in pricing, creating the potential for a climate-debt doom loop
Read more...Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry
The triumph of biological psychiatry has everything to do with the close ties between Big Pharma and academic psychiatry and little to do with compelling scientific evidence.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2022
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Wage Stagnation and Productivity: Challenging the Conventional Analysis
Stagnating real wages may have contributed to the slowdown of US productivity.
Read more...OECD Members Just Met in Ibiza to Discuss Creating a Global Vaccine Passport Regime
On the same day as the OECD meeting, the governments of 21 African countries quietly embraced mandatory vaccine passports, which will link up with other global systems.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
How neolibearlism and idealization of markets is the latest chapter in the West’s destructive drift towards rule by oligarchs and rentiers.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/11/2022
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Read more...‘Good. Now Declare It,’ Says Pressley as Biden Mulls Health Emergency for Abortion Rights
Would declaring a public health emergency work as a Biden Administration abortion Hail Mary pass?
Read more...There is No Nobel Prize in Economics
Yves here. From time to time, readers chide us for lacking the patience to spell out the proper name of economics profession’s imitation Nobel Prize. J.R. Swenson is particularly annoyed by this practice and is highlighting some of the (sadly still few) instances within the discipline of pushing back against the brand appropriation. To highlight […]
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