Category Archives: Guest Post

Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19

Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.

China and US: Stumbling into War?

China and the US are doing an awful lot of chest-poking, and if anything, it’s getting worse under Biden. Could this sparring lead to war?

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2021

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Links 4/1/2021

Coal Is In Terminal Decline, But China’s Consumption Is Climbing

Sadly, King Coal will be with us for a very long time.

Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?

On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/31/2021

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A Covid Tragedy: “Wholesale Discrediting of Our Health Science Institutions”

How science, or perhaps more accurately, “Trust the science,” is dangerously being treated as just another political chip.

Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.

History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy.

Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?

Biden”s Central America plan includes US funding of domestic security forces to keep citizens put and support foreign economic exploitation.

Godzilla vs. Kong: A Functional Morphologist Uses Science to Pick a Winner

Godzilla lives!

It’s Time To Talk About Ivermectin

An extremely cheap, safe and widely available off-patent medicine appears to be saving the lives of covid-19 patients across Latin America and beyond. Yet hardly anybody’s talking about it.

We Have to Consign the Era of Financial Engineering to History

Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.