Sunday, August 3, 2025
The Age of Lunacy: The Doomsday Machine
The lunacy of current Trump foreign policy is not unprecedented. This RNN interview discusses similarly unhinged incidents from the 1950s and 1960s.
Wizards and Prophets Face Off to Save the Planet
How to feed 10 billion people? Wizards, as in technophiles, and prophets, conservationists, have very different answers.
Six Things Urban Feminists (Make That Anyone) Should Never Say to Rural People
How urban people routinely sneer at their country cousins.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/9/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Teen governors? 2018, voting machines, the Resistance, wholesale trade, debt, Amazon, Uber, Mr. Market has a sad, dice
The Chinese Banking System: Much More Than a Domestic Giant
Chinese banks have become major foreign lenders, making China the eighth biggest financial center in the world.
US Stock Markets Enter Correction Territory as Dow Falls More Than 1000 Points
The stock market continues to be moody as investors fret that good economic data means more Fed rate hikes.
CalPERS Manages to Get Pretty Much Everything Wrong in Its Latest Asset Reallocation
CalPERS continues to be lousy at market timing.
UK Asks the Rest of the World to Be Super Duper Nice and Act as Its Old Deals Are Still Valid Post Brexit
Yet another Brexit train wreck.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/8/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Oprah, 2018, @USofCare, ranked choice voting, employment, lithium, Mr. Market, net neutrality, IoT, John Perry Barlow
Protests in Tunisia Over IMF-Promoted Policies….for Good Reason
Why the IMF’s standard prescription is a poor fit for Tunisia.
The Payback: Why Aren’t Black Voters Rewarded by the Party That Depends on Them to Win Elections?
The Democrats don’t do much for black voters, and it’s getting a bit too obvious.
