Inflation is hitting a few important sectors very hard. The Fed isn’t set up to contend with this problem, but will it try anyhow?
Sunday, November 9, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/14/2021
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A Curious Union: Covid, Clorox, Cleveland Clinic, and the CDC Foundation
Cleveland Clinic’s and the CDC Foundation’s unsound Clorox sponsorship confirms that the US has the best medical system that money can buy.
When Counterculture Goes Mainstream: A Dispatch from the 2021 Bitcoin Conference
How Bitcoin hard-core loyalists see the future of their project.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (Non) Reporting Tallies 8 Strikes in 2020 Versus Payday Report’s >1200
Tiny Payday Report does the Bureau of Labor Statistics to shame in tracking strikes in 2020. What gives?
Industry Calls the Climate Shots in the Biden Administration
And you believed Biden on climate change?
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2021
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Mindfulness Meditation Can Make Some Americans More Selfish and Less Generous
Why mindfulness practices don’t move seamlessly across cultures.
Does the Fate of Ivermectin As a Covid-19 Treatment Rest in the Hands of the Deeply Conflicted Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?
One of the world’s biggest vaccine proponents and strident defender of intellectual property rights is funding, directly and indirectly, large trials into cheap, off-patent, off-label COVID-19 treatments, including ivermectin.
America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?
America is finally out of one unwinnable war. How does this bode for the US extracting itself from other Middle Eastern quagmires?
Michael Hudson Discusses Financialization, Rentierism, and Other Favorite Topics with Jessi Ora of Swedish Positiva Pengar Group
Michael Hudson gives another wide-ranging, tour de force interview. Enjoy!
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2021
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Steve Wozniak Endorses the Right to Repair
Last week, President Joe Biden and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak endorsed the right to repair.
