I’ve just released Chapter 3 of my open access e-textbook on homelessness. This chapter focuses on rough sleeping and encampments. A summary of the chapter can be found here (in English): https://nickfalvo.ca/rough-sleeping-and-encampments/ A French version of the summary can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/dormir-a-la-dure-et-les-campements/ The full chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Falvo-Chapter-3-Rough-sleeping-and-encampments-12oct2022.pdf All material related to the e-book can be found [...]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way Americans spend their time. One of the most enduring shifts has occurred in the workplace, with millions of employees making the switch to work from home. Even as the pandemic has waned, more than 15 percent of full-time employees remain fully remote and an additional 30 percent work in hybrid arrangements (Barrero, Bloom, and Davis). These changes have substantially reduced time spent commuting to work; in the aggregate, Americans now spend 60 million fewer hours traveling to work each day. In this post, we investigate how people spend this saved time on other activities. Using detailed data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), we find that employed individuals allocate their saved commute time toward leisure activities and sleeping, while reducing overall work hours.
Ponce Bank, founded in 1960 in the Bronx and currently New York’s only Latino community bank, shows the possibilities of lending as a mutual bank.
When foreigners hold on to U.S. banknotes, those dollar holdings essentially become an interest-free loan to the U.S. government.
David Swallow and Chris Faint Policymakers have been investing heavily, to an accelerated timeline, to better understand the financial risks from climate change and to ensure that the financial system is resilient to those risks. Against that background, some commentators have observed that the most carbon-intensive sectors may be subject to the greatest increase in … Continue reading Capitalising climate risks: what are we weighting for?
We are delighted to announce that No Enemies No Friends: Restoring Australia’s Global Relevance has been longlisted for the inaugural Australian Political Book of the Year Award.
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In our third episode, Duncan and Mark dive into the 1997 sci-fi noir, Gattaca. Duncan skips out on the squirmy bits, but both our podcasters ultimately complete the viewing of this underrated film with a sense that the eugenicist strive to perfection that so often infiltrates the thinking of tech companies is perhaps not a
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The respected National Integrity Committee of former judges has welcomed the Government’s NACC legislation but warned that the exceptional circumstances prerequisite for public hearings would undermine the public interest without further amendments to the Bill, in their submission to the parliamentary inquiry into the Bill. Integrity Committee member and former Supreme Court Judge the Hon.
The post NACC Exceptional Circumstances Restriction Should be Lifted: Retired Judges appeared first on The Australia Institute.
The Chubb Review into Australia’s scandal-plagued carbon offsets system might not provide the reset needed for the carbon market given the potential conflicts of its members, its timing in relation to other climate reforms and by distracting from more effective emissions reduction policies, according to a submission by The Australia Institute.
The post Chubb Carbon Offsets Inquiry – Conflicted, Too Late & Missing the Point appeared first on The Australia Institute.
While lip service is frequently paid to the importance of incorporating research evidence and lived experience into the policymaking process, … More
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A new analysis examines inflationary pressures as demand for services continues to recover after its sharp fall during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some follow up comments to my appearance on the Ralph Nader show. I am looking forward to our next Q&A session with Patreon Plus supporters this Friday. Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash
The post We Do Read Comments: Re Nader first appeared on Michael Hudson.Bienvenidos, amigos y Pepinillos de Jazz. First on the agenda today is a
hearty thanks from my buddy, Dave, about whom I wrote in my previous post
last week…
As a close friend and colleague of Michael Hudson (Hudson 2004, 2018), I was aware of much of the content of David’s Debt: the First 5000 Years (Graeber 2011) before I read it. But David weaved the tale of debt into the recorded history of humanity in a way that made it revelatory, even to … Continue reading "Tribute to David Graeber"
Permalink to this post. That was the question of a Stanford/UCLA symposium held in October, 2022. We were asked to write five-page papers to answer the question. Here is the collection. My answer is below: “Should Donald Trump be returned to social media?” No, he should not. To be sure, it’s bizarre that the President […]
Permalink to this post. That was the question of a Stanford/UCLA symposium held in October, 2022. We were asked to write five-page papers to answer the question. Here is the collection. My answer is below: “Should Donald Trump be returned to social media?” No, he should not. To be sure, it’s bizarre that the President […]
I think we can give up hope this third consecutive La Niña will be any better than her two previous sisters.
On Thursday 6th Sydney broke the record for the rainiest year since data collection began in 1858: that day rainfall over Observatory Hill meteorological station totalled 2,206.8 mm. The previous record (2,194.0 mm in 1950) had stood for 72 years.
We can transform one into the other with accounting tricks.
Due to circumstances way beyond my control, Vanishing Sydney has been forced to go into a long hiatus until after Xmas. In the meantime, enjoy the back catalogue. You can find 2,800 original unique photographs of the Inner West of my beloved Emerald City - Sydney, Australia. The best resolution is seen in the Archive box on your desktop, or just keep scrolling back forever on your device. It contains just about every single landmark of any note in the Inner West and a helluva lot more besides. Hope to be back in 2023. The journey so far has been beyond fun; it started on a whim, but there’s been so much enjoyment and fulfillment in creating an amateur photographic record of the place I’ve called home for the past 35 years. In the meantime, go well, folks.
