Coffee Break: End-of-the-Week Thoughts on Science and Other Matters Arising
Today’s Coffee Break: Research universities and science advances at risk, along with healthcare. And is AI for the artificially intelligent?
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Stablecoins vs CBDC — US and EU Are on Different Paths to the Same Destination: Programmable Money
While the programmability features of CBDCs have generated considerable alarm, it’s a very different story for the stablecoins that the US government seeks to regulate with its “GENIUS” act.
Read more...Leadership in the Senate: New Boss Same as the Old Boss?
Following the money shows why Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s shadow will last long beyond his tenure.
Read more...The Price of Monopoly and Oligopoly Power: Why Rising Markups Hurt Innovation and Widen Inequality
More evidence of the cost of monopoly and oligopoly power.
Read more...Neoliberalism and a Healthy Population Are Incompatible
It can’t be said often enough that neoliberalism is unhealthy for children and other living things.
Read more...Trump Tariffs Plunge Local NYC Businesses Into Uncertainty
A look at the damage being done by Trump tariffs, though the eyes of small business operators in New York City.
Read more...Politico-Scientific Responses to the Current Pandemic: An Update Based on a Retrospective by Anthony Fauci and Gregory Folkers
Anthony Fauci and Gregory Folkers take a stab at delineating what HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 have taught us about pandemic responses
Read more...The Perceived Costs of Business Cycles and Inflation
Quelle surprise! People really hate the uncertainty that comes with business cycles. This bodes ill for the Trump regime.
Read more...Trump’s Address to Congress, Lame Democrat Proposals, Highlight the Absence of Opposition
On the total flaccidity of what passes for opposition to Trump.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Rise of the Drones
Our warfare-focused Coffee Break: Drone technology’s dramatic impact on current warfare, its rapid evolution, and the danger of its unrestricted development
Read more...Labour Is Becoming the Enemy of the Vulnerable and the Disabled
Labour goes all in for cutting social spending, first for the disabled, almost certainly with the excuse that it’s needed to fund rearming.
Read more...BlackRock’s Takeover of Panama Canal’s Two Main Ports Is First Major Victory for Trump’s “Americas First” Policy
But what could it mean for China’s trade relations with Latin America, in particular the US’ largest trade partner Mexico?
Read more...Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’
Yet more punishing the poors, here in the form of unduly punitive clawbacks of accidental Social Security overpayments.
Read more...Charting the Uncharted: The (Un)intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions and Dark Shipping
An estimate of the magnitude of dark-shipped oil suggests that removing sanctions would raise, not lower, oil prices.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond
This week’s Europe/UK focused Coffee Break: German and Romanian election chicanery, UK snooping, why Western pols believe Ukraine can win.
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