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This is a thread for comments on how to prepare for bad times. All off-topic comments will be deleted. The thread will be re-upped occasionally so that resources can build over time. (I’m going to bring this back to the top at least once a month, maybe more, so people can read the old advice […]
As is well-known, New Classical economists have never accepted Keynes’s distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment. According to New Classical über-economist Robert Lucas, an unemployed worker can always instantaneously find some job. No matter how miserable the work options are, “one can always choose to accept them,” in Lucas’s view. This is, of course, only […]
Understanding the intuitive power of the word ‘natural’ could help inform choices about what to eat or what to do when ill
- by Brian Meier
As deadly riots burn Iranian cities, Western media ignores the shocking wave of violence, turning instead to US government-funded NGOs for data. The one-sided portrayal has helped push Trump to the brink of authorizing renewed US attacks. Western media has ignored a growing trove of video evidence showing terrorist tactics deployed across Iran by protesters described by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as “largely peaceful.” Recent videos published both by Iranian state media and anti-government forces reveal public lynchings […]
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This is another case of Trump doing the right thing in theory. From Matt Stoller: Trump also issued an executive order to ban buybacks, dividends, and cap executive compensation for defense contractors. The rumor is that DOD deputy secretary Steve Feinberg complained about the unwillingness of the contractors to do competent work. Feinberg is a […]
Australia’s most popular party (allegedly), One Nation, has called for a nation wide ban on writer’s festivals, claiming that they discriminate against those voters who are unable to read or write. ”I’ve had a bloody gutful of these so-called writers... Read More ›
The Massachusetts senator could belatedly become what she always should have been.
Alongside the mounting pile of elaborate theoretical models we see a fast-growing stock of equally intricate statistical tools … [M]ost modeltesting kits described in professional journals are internally consistent. However, like the economic models they are supposed to implement, the validity of these statistical tools depends itself on the acceptance of certain convenient assumptions pertaining […]
Tennessee regulators just sent cease-and-desist letters to online prediction markets including Kalshi and Polymarket.
Coconspirators in an infamous Ohio corruption scandal are asking the Supreme Court to reconsider anti-bribery law and overturn their convictions.
Destructive and beautiful all at once – an artist on the spectrum captures the ‘souls’ of machines from an Alaskan cabin
- Directed by Leonard Kamerling
Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world
- by Dominic Pettman
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January 12th, 2026: This comic wa In 2025, APO has proved once again why evidence matters. From shaping strategies in government to supporting frontline service delivery, … More
2026 has started with a bang for the fringe, extreme right party, One Nation, with 9 out of 10 adulterers nominating them as their party of choice to lead the country. ”Pauline tells it like it is and Barnaby is... Read More ›
It is well known that even experienced scientists routinely misinterpret p-values in all sorts of ways, including confusion of statistical and practical significance, treating non-rejection as acceptance of the null hypothesis, and interpreting the p-value as some sort of replication probability or as the posterior probability that the null hypothesis is true … It is […]
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 11, 2026 by Tony Wikrent “A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation.” [TW: For a reason I shall explain, there were a number of posts this past week that struck me but I have not included all of them here. What struck me was the […]
As the EU has sought to prolong the Ukraine proxy war, expropriate frozen Russian assets, and enlarge the bloc at any cost, Viktor Orban’s Hungary opposed it at every turn. Now, with his support teetering, leaked documents reveal a major EU official plotted a long-term covert campaign to oust him. A senior European Union official has been secretly seeking to remove Hungarian President Viktor Orban since at least 2019, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The files show […] The post EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show first appeared on The Grayzone. The post EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show appeared first on The Grayzone. | ||