The Only Crypto Story You Need? A Response to Matt Levine’s The Crypto Story
A wide-ranging discussion of why defenses of crypto don’t stand up to scrutiny.
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Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 2: Susceptibilities
Satyajit Das continues his tour of the breakup of the world order, here focusing on financial/economic dislocations and dysfunctional elites
Read more...The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Emerging Market Crisis Pathologies
Why emerging markets look set to suffer a world of hurt.
Read more...What Should You Do During a Flood? Stay Out of the Water
Some practical flood advice.
Read more...How Climate Change Spurs Megadroughts
Why megadroughts are becoming part of the new normal.
Read more...National Cyber Defenses Mean Businesses Can Keep Making Money From Public Services
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher Cyber attacks targeting private sector providers for essential public services result in additional waste of public resources. When public health care fails in cyber security, politicians are quick to blame staff on the ground. But when private companies become the weak link, state resources are spent […]
Read more...Why Give a Damn About Pelosi? How About the Nuclear Strike We Would Have Made on China Over Formosa?
In 1958, the US considered a nuclear strike against China if China’s planned conquest of Formosa went well.
Read more...Now It’s Official: Financial Times Profiles Venture Capital Crash
A venture capital washout is underway. Pass the popcorn.
Read more...The Future of Global Catastrophic Risk Events from Climate Change
U.N.: Climate change is causing extreme events that can kill > 10 million or lead to > $10 trillion in damages, threatening societal collapse
Read more...IM Doc Could Not Get A Monkeypox Test for a Patient. What That Says About the Sorry State of the CDC and Public Health
The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.
Read more...Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection
Visibly filmsy “isolation” gowns, OK’d by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.
Read more...Fast and Furious Omicron New Variants Defy Explanation, and Don’t Bode Well for Future Either
More cheery Omicron takes.
Read more...Can the Fed Kill This Inflation Without Killing Too Many Other Things First?
Why having central banks as the inflation shock troops is not such a hot idea.
Read more...As U.S. LNG Expands in Europe, a Hidden Threat Grows
Researchers and experts are warning about the danger of naturally occurring radiation in LNG to workers and communities in the US and Europe
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