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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
New Biden BA.5 “Plan” Openly Abandons Metrics for Preventing Infection, Butchers Mask and Ventilation Policy
BA.5 plan: Let ‘er rip!
Climate Change Risks to Sovereign Debt: How Integrated Assessment Models Inform Our Understanding
Evidence suggests that sovereign debt markets are taking climate effects into account in pricing, creating the potential for a climate-debt doom loop
Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry
The triumph of biological psychiatry has everything to do with the close ties between Big Pharma and academic psychiatry and little to do with compelling scientific evidence.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Pursuing Its National Interest in the New Multipolar World: India to Boost Sakhalin-1 Oil Output
Sakhalin-1 opportunity: Indian firms to step in and replace departing U.S. and Japanese companies.
Wage Stagnation and Productivity: Challenging the Conventional Analysis
Stagnating real wages may have contributed to the slowdown of US productivity.
OECD Members Just Met in Ibiza to Discuss Creating a Global Vaccine Passport Regime
On the same day as the OECD meeting, the governments of 21 African countries quietly embraced mandatory vaccine passports, which will link up with other global systems.
Michael Hudson: The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place
How neolibearlism and idealization of markets is the latest chapter in the West’s destructive drift towards rule by oligarchs and rentiers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/11/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
‘Good. Now Declare It,’ Says Pressley as Biden Mulls Health Emergency for Abortion Rights
Would declaring a public health emergency work as a Biden Administration abortion Hail Mary pass?
Some Quick Thoughts About Russia’s Resilience and America’s Malaise
Seeking reader input on preliminary hypotheses on why Russia is faring better than expected under the sanctions while the US is suffering.
