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Sunday, October 6, 2024
Links 5/10/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 179 Comments »
World’s Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm on Fragility of Cashless Economies. Are Other Central Banks Listening?
At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 56 Comments »
What Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
How the fall of the USSR reshaped thinking in the discipline of geopolitics.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Russia, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:26 am | 13 Comments »
Michael Hudson: Parallels Between Archaic Entrepots and Modern Offshore Banking Centers
There is perilous little that is novel in modern finance. Our offshore, as in tax havens, have analogues in the ancient world.
Topics: Banking industry, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:27 am | 11 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/9/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics , Antisemitism Awareness Act, Trump’s Bragg trial, the perfect cheese sauce ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 72 Comments »
How Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder
How trade liberalization cut Africa’s modest production capacities, industry and food security.
Topics: Africa, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Guest Post, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:54 am | 9 Comments »
Links 5/9/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 143 Comments »
Populism and State Power
A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:45 am | 21 Comments »
Satyajit Das: The Rich Are Different!
A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Investment management, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, Taxes
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:30 am | 21 Comments »
An Iowa Farm County Seeks Answers Amid Cancer Rates 50% Higher than National Average
More evidence on cancer clusters in the Corn Belt, and the difficulty of rallying official interest and help.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Permaculture, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:28 am | 17 Comments »
Alvin Bragg’s Theories (Plural) of the Case in People v. Trump May Be Gradually Emerging (There Are Three)
The architecture of Bragg’s case, and the state of play of its various elements.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 3:55 pm | 36 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:40 pm | 60 Comments »
Consumers Regard the Cost of Money as Part of the Cost of Living
This column examines why consumer sentiment in the US remained depressed in 2023 despite low unemployment and falling inflation, and finds that increasing borrowing costs can explain much of this gap.
Topics: Macroeconomic policy, The dismal science
Posted by Lambert Strether at 7:32 am | 32 Comments »
Links 5/8/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 167 Comments »
Is a Future-Proof Science Possible?
The latest in KLG’s arc of posts on the theory and practice of science in the so-called modern world.
Topics: Guest Post, Science and the scientific method, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 18 Comments »