Friday, November 7, 2025
Charity Shops: Why They Beat the Rest of the High Street as a Retail Experience
On the pleasures and virtues of shopping at charity shops.
Fateful Collision: NATO’s Drive to the East Versus Russia’s Sphere of Influence
How using the military alliance NATO for Euroepean-loyality-building ends has made it more and more of a threat to Russia.
Classicalism and Revolution
Musing about classicism and revolution in economics and the arts.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/7/2022
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Hold That Anti-Fogging Spray: Duke University Researchers Find Forever Chemicals in Commonly Used Eyeglass Products
Use of many popular anti-fogging sprays and anti-fogging cloths expose U.S. eyeglass wearers to potentially harmful forever chemicals.
The ‘China Shock’ of Trade in the 2000s Reverberates in US Politics and Economics
Belatedly learning from how trade losses to China damaged communities to determine how to shore them up.
“They Really Are Trying to Kill Us”
A tale of elite negligence.
Michael Hudson: On Debt Parasites
Michael Hudson’s favorite theme: why debt cancellation was a regular practice in ancient societies and what happens now that we’ve rejected it
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/6/2022
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Strong Earthquakes Spell Trouble For America’s Oil Heartland
It’s hardly a secret that fracking has produced a sharp increase in the frequency of earthquakes. But now they are becoming more severe too.
The Fed Sets Out to Kill the Economy to Save It
The Fed is trying to solve an economic problem that is largely outside its reach.
