Sunday, December 28, 2025

There’s a “New Upside Risk” in Town: “Pent-up Exuberance” – Fed’s Bostic

Some at the Fed worry that the central bank can’t get the inflation genie back in the bottle.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/5/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Nuland retires, Trump electors, the Walgreens positivity data, and Taylor Swift has a cough. ~

How Facebook Contributes to the Demise of Endangered Species

With little enforcement or legal culpability, social media sites like Facebook help wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight.

Links 3/5/2024

After Nigeria’s eNaira Disaster, Another “Live” Central Bank Digital Currency, Jamaica’s Jam-Dex, Founders

Just three countries have so far introduced CBDCs, according to the IMF, and two of them are already having serious issues. 

How Should the Government Negotiate Medicare Drug Prices? A Guide for the Perplexed

How some key points on negotiating Medicare drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act were oddly left open, arguably much too open.

Google Demands That We Censor Our Content

Google trying to censor our content on bogus grounds.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/4/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

Links 3/4/2024

Restaurants: Canaries in the Coal Mine of the Covid Labor Reset?

Independent restaurants are in a world of hurt due to labor cost increases. Yet oddly no one seems willing to cite Long Covid as a contributor.

Armenia Freezes Participation in Collective Security Treaty Organization, Further Poisoning Ties With Russia

Even as the West is in crisis and prepares to turn its back on Ukraine it helped destroy, Armenian leaders see that and say “I want in.”

U.S. Seeks Semiconductor Supremacy with New Funding Initiatives

Is a “CHIPS Act 2.0” coming soon? 

IM Doc Reports on Covid Not Waning, Long Covid Effects as Lambert Lambastes Latest CDC Guidance as “Crime Against Humanity”

Lambert describes how the CDC destructively washes its hands of Covid as IM Doc chronicles how it is relentlessly continuing to harm patients.

Links 3/3/2024

Democratic Rights Are No Excuse for Airing Russian Perspectives in Europe

Why are European elites “on the side of Ukraine’s freedom” so eager to curb freedoms at home? The silencing of opposing viewpoints accelerates in Italy as support for Project Ukraine declines.