Category Archives: Guest Post
Austria Imposes Full Covid Lockdown and Plans Mandatory Vaccination Early Next Year
Austria is the first country to go full lockdown after the introduction of the Covid vaccines…and at a higher vaccination rate than the US.
Read more...Why, In a Nation Stocked With Corporate Media Junk Food, Naked Capitalism Is Necessary for Our Intellectual Health
How Naked Capitalism prevents media-induced brain rot.
Read more...Experts on Inflation: Prognosis, Political Fallout and Who’s Really to Blame
Some non-mainstream experts discuss inflation: what is driving it, how long it might persist, and what if anything the officialdom can do.
Read more...The War Nerd: The Tigray-Ethiopia War
The latest episode of the Ethiopian long war, which flared when the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies tried to sandwich Tigray between them in November 2020.
Read more...COP26: Climate Pledges Don’t Match Up With Policies—or Consumer Behavior
The ink is barely dry on COP26 pledges, and it’s not hard to see that they are largely for show.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/17/2021
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Read more...An Increase in Interest Rates Would Be An Act of Class Warfare
While increasing interest rates to combat this inflation is bone-headed, the Fed has long wanted to be out of super low rate terrain.
Read more...Links 11/17/2021
The McDonaldization of German Universities
All elements of McDonaldization, such as heavy reliance on poorly paid casual workers and standardization, operate at German universities.
Read more...Naked Capitalism: Nurturing Our Community of Critical Thinkers During the Pandemic Years…And Some Good News Stories
Naked Capitalism has emerged as a forum for reasoned COVID debate, but that’s not all that we do. We continue to cover other major issues, encourage critical thinking, and to share some occasional good news.
Read more...2020’s Knife Edge Election: An Analysis
A new paper, based on serious data analysis, confirm the intutions many had, that BLM protests and Covid were key to Biden’s win.
Read more...Dems Continue To Sink Despite Improving Economy
The popularity of the Dems is diverging from the apparent trajectory of the economy, a not normal state of affairs.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/16/2021
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Read more...Mexico’s World Bank-Funded Mandatory Biometric Database Raises Serious Ethical and Legal Questions
Mexico’s government wants the biometrics of all its citizens. Given the fragility of its institutions and organized crime’s infiltration of both government and law enforcement, this is a major cause for concern.
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