Friday, September 26, 2025

Mark Carney’s Trojan Unicorn — Are Central Banks Considering Stealth Nationalization in Sovereign Digital Currencies?

Mark Carney talks about digital soverign currencies. But is he really describing nationalization? And if so, whither the commercial banks?

Links 10/1/19

Matt Stoller: The Great Turn Is Beginning

Stoller’s fundraiser theme is cracks among the elites are getting serious.

Brexit: Out of Runway

How long can Johnson keep his Brexit deal fantasy going?

Rural Hospital Closings Reach Crisis Stage, Leaving Millions Without Nearby Health Care

How rural hospital closures have serious knock-on effects.

Trump’s Latest Trade War Move Sends Oil Tanking

Oil markets see Trump’s continuing China trade threats as a downer.

London Meetup (with Jerri-Lynn, Clive, Richard Smith), 3rd October: We Look Forward to Seeing You!

London meetup, 3rd October, with Jerri-Lynn, Clive, and Richard Smith.

Wow! Met Our First Fundraiser Goal in Record Time! Next Is More Meetups and Travel

The fundraiser is off to a great start! If you haven’t given already, please support our second goal, more meetups.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2019

Today’s Water Cooler:

America’s Final Patriots: An Interview + Book Review of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller (Riverhead Books, 2019)

A new, “brutally researched” book on whistleblowers describes their importance and the price they often pay.

Links 9/30/19

Fundraiser 2019: What We Did for You in the Past Year

Our report on what we accomplished since our last fundraiser, thanks to your support.

Fundraiser 2019: Fighting the Good Fight

Fundraiser 2019 is on! Give generously to keep us unbought and unbossed.

From 2014: R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings

ive years later, Richard Smiths’s 2014 deep dive into Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings, then and now of Hunter Biden fame, provides detail you won’t find anywhere else.

The Cost/Benefit Analysis of No Deal

Looking at the contours of a No Deal Brexit.