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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
The Mercenaries Who Fight for American Empire
How private military contractors, aka mercenaries, are now an essential part of America’s increasingly privatized wars.
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View, or How to Look at the World from the Philosophical High Ground
A critical look at William MacAskill’s new book on how human civilization can make it through the next few hundred years.
We Can Use AI in the Economy but Only If We Are Willing To Tax Capital More Heavily
What future is there for labor with AI?
The U.S. Needs To Double The Size Of Its Energy Grid
Will the state of the US grid constrain the conversion to electric vehicles and other green devices?
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/9/2023
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Mass Incarceration’s Impact on US Life Expectancy
Research suggests prison accelerates the aging process and may be a factor in falling U.S. life expectancy.
Why I’m Skeptical of Powell’s Claim Red-Hot Rent CPI Will Just Vanish: Landlords Report the Opposite, Even for April
Oopsie! Still perceived-to-be-high housing prices, thanks to higher mortgage rates, is a landlord’s wet dream. Who’d have thunk it?
EU Commission’s Flagship Annual Economic Event Just Showed How Little Public Appetite There Is for Cashless Economy
Even at the very heart of the EU’s political establishment a majority of people believe that a cashless society would not be beneficial for the general public or the economy.
Peter Pan Bonds to the Debt Ceiling Rescue?
Yet another way to circumvent debt ceilng restrictions isn’t getting the consideration it warrants.
Mass General Hospital Decrees that Patients May Not ***ASK*** Staff to Wear Masks, Even If Immunocompromised (ADA Complaint Filed)
Mass General Hospital mandates patient infection from Covid.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2023
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