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Joel is driving along a deserted highway. Ellie is in the passenger seat drinking a Diet Snapple.
JOEL: We stay on this road and we’ll reach our destination by nightfall.
ELLIE: All right, cool, cool. But we’re going to stop at rest stops along the way, right?
JOEL: No, too dangerous.
ELLIE: Okay, it’s just that I might need to pee at some point.
JOEL: We just stopped to pee.
ELLIE: Yeah, well, that was fifteen minutes ago. And I’m gonna need to pee again in another fifteen minutes. Sorry, but liquids just run through me at my age.
JOEL: Then stop drinking so many Diet Snapples. Where did you even find those?
Along with Eric Tymoigne, I will be on the “pro-” side of a “pro-/con-” Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) panel at the online part of the annual Canadian Economic Association (CEA) conference (on May 30, the live conference is in early June in my old hometown of Winnipeg). As a non-academic non-economist, if I were smart, I would keep my head down and offer fairly cautious remarks from the perspective of an educated outsider (with obvious biases). Whether that happens when I start opening my mouth remains to be seen (“No plan survives contact with the enemy”).Bond Economics
Yet More Rambling About My Upcoming MMT Presentation
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Indian Express reports from Iran’s PressTV that the country has discovered a deposit of 8.5 million tons of lithium in the Qahavand Plain of western Hamedan province. There are only 89 million tons of lithium in the world in known deposits so far, with the […]
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EDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT
Jean conducts an interview for Lavil.
Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed firsthand a city in free fall.
Four of the AWOL Trump supporters remain at large.
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Below, please find the definitive right-of-way regulations for New York City’s bike lanes. Any lower-ranked item must yield to any higher-ranked item.
1. Marked NYPD vehicles
2. Unmarked NYPD vehicles
3. Vehicles with a Thin Blue Line flag bumper sticker
4. A dumpster with the Punisher logo on it
5. Film crews for Blue Bloods
6. Vehicles whose owner’s cousin used to work for the city (any city is fine)
7. Amazon delivery trucks
8. Pedestrians walking against traffic
9. Any double-parked motorized vehicle
10. Regular film crews
11. Any motorized vehicle whose driver “just needs to check something”
12. Tourists waiting to cross the street who might not realize they are standing in the bike lane
13. Abandoned vehicles
14. Pizza Rat
15. Revelers and merrymakers
16. Bearded men screaming, “The End is near!”
17. Currently on-fire vehicles
18. Calzone Mouse
19. Street preachers