Can the Fed Kill This Inflation Without Killing Too Many Other Things First?
Why having central banks as the inflation shock troops is not such a hot idea.
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As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows
Researchers and experts are warning about the danger of naturally occurring radiation in LNG to workers and communities in the US and Europe
Read more...CalPERS Staff in Fury Over Covid Negligence, Regulation-Breaking Risking Staff, Seniors, and Day-Care Children; CalPERS Lies About Cases and Lack of Compliance
CalPERS has risen from being a risk to merely to the financial health of beneficiaries and taxpayers to being a bona fide health hazard.
Read more...How the Options Tail Has Come to Wag the Market Dog: A Simple English Language Explanation of How Structural Changes in the Stock Markets Contribute to Whipsaw Movements in Prices
Why the use of options may be the risk bomb that blows a big hole in our financial system.
Read more...How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘Covid-Proof’ Your Home
Some easy home ventilation tips that could help relatives and colleagues.
Read more...Brief Comments on the TerraUSD and Tether Stablecoin Breakdowns
Why the two big stablecoin breakdowns of last week, TerraUSD and Tether, look like frauds.
Read more...Climate Collapse & Adaptation
Is it possible to adapt to the inevitable like climate collapse? We do it all the time, and everyone living will do it at least once.
Read more...Financial Times Screeches at China’s “Propaganda” for Sticking to Zero Covid Policy
A new article on how China is sticking to its zero Covid guns is revealing, and not in a good way.
Read more...Climate Science and Financial Risk: Forging a Path to More Climate-Resilient Businesses
Is the search for better valuations of climate risks to help businesses reducing global emissions an exercise in self-delusion?
Read more...The Worrying Murkiness of Institutional Biosafety Committees
Experts say institutional biosafety committees are a crucial to ensuring the safety of biomedical research. Critics say they are too opaque.
Read more...New IPCC Report Highlights Urgency of Climate Change Impacts
IPCC: Missing Paris targets would harm human health and biodiversity worldwide, and risk irreversible losses sooner than previously thought.
Read more...What Happens If a Cryptocurrency Exchange Files for Bankruptcy?
Law professor Adam Levitin explains why cyptocurrency exchange customers face a world of hurt if their exchange fails.
Read more...Nuclear Power Is Clean, Safe and Cheap. We Need It to Stop Global Heating
Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.
Read more...Covid Situation Continuing to Develop Not Necessarily to the Officialdom’s Advantage
The new Covid news isn’t better than the old Covid news, and some is actually disconcerting.
Read more...How 5G Puts Airplanes at Risk – An Electrical Engineer Explains
More on the 5G rollout controversy.
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