A 1,000-Year Flood in Maryland Shows the Big Problem With So Much Asphalt
Why Ellicott City’s flood didn’t have to be the disaster it was.
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A Hard Look at the Mini-BOT, the Parallel Currency Idea of Italy’s New Ruling Coalition
The mini-BOT has only been sketched out at a high level. How might it work and more important, would it succeed as a parallel currency?
Read more...The Political Significance of LSD
LSD is back in vogue. Is that a good thing?
Read more...Links 6/6/18
More US and China Jousting Over South China Sea
The US-China conflict over the South China Sea keeps getting hotter.
Read more...Jim Chanos on Fraud: “Cryptocurrency Is a Security Speculation Game Masquerading as a Technological Breakthrough”
The legendary short seller Jim Chanos in a wide-ranging discussion of financial frauds, starting with cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin is the last thing he’d want to own in the event of a catastrophe.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Why the Swiss Referendum Proposal of Giving the Central Bank Complete Credit Control is Dangerous Folly
Correcting some misunderstanding about proposed monetary reforms that are the subject of a referendum this weekend.
Read more...Trump After 500 Days: More Lifetime Federal Judges
The Trump administration has successfully seated a record number of lifetime federal judges, in part because his predecessor left so many positions pending.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/4/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trudeau on tariffs, Biden 2020, mid-terms, “Chasing Hillary,” manufacturing, Tesla, Facebook, capital allocation, climate, Puerto Rico, US birth rate, class warfare
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The Air Force’s Strange Love for the New B-21 Bomber
History repeats itself, as the military industrial complex strikes (out) again, with another misbegotten bomber project.
Read more...Trade Wars: How Exposed Are EU States and Industries to the US?
Taking a more granular look at how a trade war with the US might hit the EU.
Read more...Private Equity Kills Toys R Us, Workers Get No Severance
Toys R Us stores will shutter this month: private equity firms killed the company, and its workers are left with no severance.
Read more...Links 6/3/18
Don Quijones: Visa Goes Down in the UK, Chaos Ensues, Cash is Suddenly King
War on Cash suffers setback: Visa payments system crashes in the UK– one of the world’s most cashless economies– forcing people to ATMs to withdraw cash to settle transactions.
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