Is May’s latest Brexit gambit a roll of the dice or meant to be a road to nowhere?
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Money Talks, Big Time: 1% Politics and the Scandals of A New Gilded Age
A social order where the power of money plays an outsized role looks illegitiamate, particularly when citizens have been sold the myth of meritocracy.
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/2/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren, reparations, durable goods, coincident indexes, bonds, private equity, Walgreens, Subway, Epic Games, startups, natural forests, climate action in Congress, loneliness, sex, coding, the singularity, dissonant music
World Bank Financializing Development
Why having public sector development funds “leverage” private capital is a bad idea.
The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos: A Four-Part Interview With Michael Hudson About His Forthcoming Book The Collapse of Antiquity (Part 1)
Michael Hudson describes how, in antiquity in Greece and Rome, emerging oligarchs ended the practice of debt jubilees, impoverishing laborers.
Yasha Levine: Silicon Valley and “Communication Weapons of War”
Turns out Silicon Valey isn’t all that innovative on the propaganda front.
Brexit Brief
Another day of Brexit confusion.
How American Recycling Is Changing Now that China Won’t Take It
The US recycling approach of using the rest of the world as it garbage barge has come to an end. What next?
More on Flood Control: The Missouri River, the Levees, and the Gavins Point and Spencer Dams
The policy options to solve or ameliorate flooding on the Missouri River are not obvious (at least to me).
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Trump Michigan rally, Bill Weld, Stacey Abrams. AOC’s app, DSA dog caucus, retail sales, manufacturing, Wells Fargo, Wow Air, Aramco, Sears, unicorns, Big Ag, soil microbes and carbon capture, invasive species, rice, bent cops, aggression, capitalism, vanity plates
A New Constitution for the UK Needs ‘Rights of Nature’ at Its Heart
Human rights are well established in constitutional and international law. But in the face of dangerous climate change and ecosystem collapse, do we need ‘rights of nature’?
The Brexit Bar
Another important day for Brexit, when there is way too much to be decided with the stakes so high
MMT Scholars’ Predictive and Policy Successes – Part A
Bill Black highlights how prominent economists apply double standards with respect to MMT.
