Has the fatal Brexit standoff arrived, or will someone blink?
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Announcing Minneapolis Meetup for March 31
If you live in the Twin Cities area, be sure to swing by a March meetup!
Puerto Rico Update: Forests, Power, Depopulation, and Privatization
Puerto Rico’s situation is causing Naomi Klein to rethink “shock doctrine.”
How to Construct a New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes
Higher-level selection is the invisible hand.
Putin, Trump, and the Nuclear Danger
Some critical background on why Putin decided to invest heavily in technologies that could counter or circumvent US threats.
Meet the Democrats’ ‘Dirty Dozen’ Working to Gut Financial Reforms
Yet again, the Democrats sell out voters to moneyed backers, this time ones in the banking industry.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/9/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trump tariffs, Biden, TX primary, employment, Dodd-Frank, bitcoin, robot cars, Medicaid work requirement, HyperCard, giant floating bog
Brexodus: The UK May Leave the EU, but the EU May Already Be Leaving the UK
One way the UK is already losing out from Brexit….the supposedly sought-after drop in immigration is hitting some important sectors.
What’s Happening to Italy?
Myths and realities concerning the results of the recent Italian elections: who won, who lost, and who simply got it wrong
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Travesty of Protectionism
Why Trump’s tariffs hit the wrong target.
Monetary Policy and Fiscal Discipline: How the ECB Planted the Seeds of the Euro Area Crisis
How the ECB did Euro-area member states a dirty when it tried to act as deficit enforcer.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/8/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Elizabeth Warren, wave elections. TX, PA, FL, OH, chain store sales, consumer credit, robot cars, the red-hot economy, touch, data, The Big Lebowski
