New Analysis from Economists for Ukraine: The Cost of US Aid to Ukraine Is Less Than Half the Official Figures
A granular analysis of US military and direct aid to Ukraine finds the official tallies are greatly overstated.
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“A Generational Loss of Talent” – Scientist Warns Funding Cuts in Science, Tech, and Health Undermine U.S. Leadership
Scientist and entrepreneur Phillip Alvelda explains how DOGE cuts threaten the innovative capacities that made America a powerhouse
Read more...France, Germany, & Poland Are Competing For Leadership Of Post-Conflict Europe
France, Germany and Poland are reacting to how relations between Russia, and the US will determine Europe’s future security architecture.
Read more...‘We Know What It’s Like’: How Appalachian Towns Are Learning to Help Each Other After Floods
A meant-to-be-heartening story of post-flooding recovery efforts in Appalachia: is this the coming new normal in climate-change-exposed areas?
Read more...Where Did U.S. Public Health Go Wrong?
How good coordination of public health with private medical practice never came together in the US and got worse in recent decades.
Read more...Checking In on the Democrats’ Search for the “Good Billionaires”
What role is elite reconciliation under Trump playing in the Democrats’ silence on the looting of country? And in the meantime, where shall the rest of us turn?
Read more...“SOTU” Reactions: Business Press Turning on Trump as Tariffs Whack Markets, Look Set to Increase Inflation, Approval Falls and Even Republicans Getting Restive
Despite the Republican applause during Trump’s State of the Union speech, the business press is sounding alarms.
Read more...Capitalism in Decay
A compact assessment of where capitalism is taking us.
Read more...New York Fed’s Measure of “Inflation Persistence” Nixes Friday’s Idea that YoY PCE Inflation Cooled, Using Same Data
Inflation Whack-A-Mole: price pressures shifted from housing to non-housing services and core goods.
Read more...The GENIUS Act: Setting the Stage for a Federal Bailout When Stablecoins Become Insolvent
Why the GENIUS Act does not live up to its pretenses of making stablecoins safe, thus setting the stage for a Federal bailout.
Read more...Twilight of the Woke, or How to Historicize with a Hammer
A review of Musa al Gharbi’s “We Have Never Been Woke” which chronicles the class and cultural hypocrisy of a new elite.
Read more...DOGE Taketh Away From the Many as Trump Pays Off Crypto Bros With New “Strategic” Fund, Above All, Crypto Czar David Sacks
We warned that crypto was closely aligned with criminal activity. The open grift of the new “strategic” Trump fund proves that case.
Read more...Woe to You Who Deprive the Poor of Their Rights
A battle of theologies in the age of Trump.
Read more...The Empire Rebrands
Both Biden’s “Foreign Policy for the Middle Class” and Trump’s “America First” are packaged to solicit support from the American people for empire.
Read more...Mass Terminations Have Cut USDA ‘Off at the Knees,’ Ex-employees Say
The US is now a net importer of food. “America First” policies threaten to make situation worse, but who could benefit?
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