AI Investment Mania Has Begun to Percolate Through the Economy, and the Fed Has Begun to Fret About the Effects
AI dominated the Fed’s meeting as a driver of “persistent inflationary pressures” and demand growth.
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How Unions Pave the Way to the American Dream
Even with rising inequality and weak labor rights, unions secure enough improvements in pay and conditions to provide some class mobility.
Read more...Greenspan Ran the Fed for 18 Years and Left an Economic Time Bomb
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: take a hard look at Greenspan’s misrule at the Fed and find more not to like than you might know about
Read more...Culture Is the Far Right’s Secret Weapon – and It’s Winning Over Some of Europe’s Most Educated Youth
EU officials seem aghast at the fact that many citizens, particularly the young, identify with national or local culture.
Read more...Fire Any Financial Advisor Who Tells You to Utilize a Trump Account
Sure, take the $1,000 that Trump wants to give newborn kids. But never put another dime in a Trump Account..
Read more...A Super El Niño Is Coming: 5 Hard‑Won Lessons the World Can Learn From Africa
Africa suffered in past super El Niño events and developed approaches to prevent and mitigate harm. Can rich countries learn?
Read more...The Day Trump and the Epstein Class Nearly Broke the FIFA World Cup
The US government’s contempt for the international rule of law now even extends to the world of football.
Read more...The Colorado River Crisis Is Reaching a Breaking Point
The power struggle over the Colorado River is a microcosm of coming water use fights which too often will feed wars.
Read more...The Spectacular Regrowth of New England’s Forests
The rebound of forests in the northeast U.S. is the “greatest forest recovery in the history of the world.” This is how it happened.
Read more...The Hypersociality Hypothesis
Can hypersociality help reconcile obvious elite stupidity with top-down conspiracy theories?
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The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Into Great Silence (2005) Run Time: 1H 6M Plus Bonuses!
Into Great Silence is a movie about the contemplative life.
Read more...Michael Hudson: How US Slave Interests Stifled US Monetary and Banking Policy Until 1913
On US 250th anniversary celebration, Michael Hudson considers the counter-revolution thesis and the role of slave capital.
Read more...Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness
Rob Urie addresses common misperceptions regularly promoted by AI touts, of what AI can and cannot do.
Read more...The UK’s Latest “Debanking” Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause
First they came for Muslim activists. Then they came for Nigel Farage. Now, they’re coming for independent media outlets.
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