Trump and Wealth-Price Inflation: Still Running in the Background All the Time
Demand by America’s most affluent is driving consumer spending. That spending, in turn, is the main force keeping inflation so high
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Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
KLG’s first weekly Coffee Break medical science sightings. Feedback and recommendations for sources welcome!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 2/28/2025
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Goddamned Democrats; Big Z at the White House (transcript); Economy already worrisome; Epigenetics: Violence alters human genes for generations ~
Read more...Over-Planting of GM Corn Costing Farmers Billions, Study Finds
Yet another example of GM crop induced harm to farmers.
Read more...Links 2/28/2025
What Could Possibly Be Worse Than Carbon Credit Markets? Water Credit Markets. And They Could Be On Their Way
The goal, says Singapore’s president, is to develop “a reliable (sic) carbon credit system with a stapling on of water and biodiversity credits.”
Read more...Charlie Krauss: What the Enron Egg Says About AI’s Nuclear Courtship
How nuclear small modular reactors (SMR) hype, with a boost from AI, has reached absurd, as in satire-suitable, levels.
Read more...Capital as Power in the 21st Century: A Conversation
An in-depth discussion by Michael Hudson, Jonathan Nitzan, Blair Fix and Tim Di Muzio of the capital as power framework and its explanatory value.
Read more...With RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash In
Why dietary supplement fans should be worried about RFK, Jr.’s plan to weaken their already lax regulation.
Read more...Demand for Electricity Takes Off. US Power Generation by Source in 2024: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Petroleum
Quelle surprise! Power demand surges thanks to data centers (AI, cloud, crypto) and increasing share of EVs.
Read more...Links 2/26/2025
COVID-19 in Context: A Retrospective View
A look at the state of knowledge when Covid-19 started its spread, and some of the questionable choices made despite that.
Read more...US Secondary Sanctions “Have Seriously Damaged” Russia-China Bilateral Cooperation
Russian experts say US secondary sanctions are damaging Russia-China commerce. But their solutions don’t seem to be close to implementation.
Read more...Announcing 2025 Water Cooler Fundraiser for Lambert’s Gold Retirement Watch (and Work Done in 2024)
My goal is 🌡️ 400 donors, the same as last year. If you can give a lot, give a lot. If you can only give a little, give a little. (You can also pay it forward by donating on behalf of those whose circumstances have not permitted them to do so.)
Read more...America First Deepens World Stagnation
Quelle surprise! America First is another leg down in the developing-country-unfriendly policies the Collective West has pursued.
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