Thursday, December 25, 2025
Michael Hudson: What is Causing So Much Inflation?
Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and Fed’s secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout.
A Movement to Organize Against the Systemic Corruption of Congress
Since Citizens United, systemic corruption as a subject of discussion has virtually disappeared from public awareness.
The Bitcoin Challenge: How to Tame a Digital Predator
Public authorities should refrain from taking measures supporting additional investment flows into Bitcoin and should treat it as rigorously as the conventional financial industry to combat illicit payments, money laundering, and terrorist financing
Massachusetts Mask Debacle: State Fails its Elementary and Secondary School Teachers
Plans to distribute masks to the teachers of Massachusetts prove to be a shambles.as ineffective, old Chinese-made masks are shipped instead.
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
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
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.
