Bruno Latour, the preeminent sociologist, original anthropologist, and highly influential thinker, dies aged 75. This is devastating news and an enormous loss.If there is a scholar whose tremendous contribution would be simply impossible to describe in a short blog post — this would be Latour’s. Even the Holberg Prize‘s – the most important award in […]
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As Phoenix copes with a dwindling water supply, flood irrigation and canal systems grounded in traditional Indigenous knowledge are allowing these urban gardeners to grow crops in the Valley of the Sun’s extreme conditions.
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Jean-Luc Godard, like Nietzsche and Wittgenstein and Heidegger, is worth paying attention to even when we think his work is bad
New research has revealed that Gen Z would receive only 2.8% of the first year of the Stage 3 Tax Cuts legislated by the Morrison Government. The newly released age-based data break down reveals that in financial year 2024-2025, those under 25 years old would receive only 2.8% of the billions in tax cuts which
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It is important to note that the proposals for a supranational currency have been made with various, disparate goals. Some are primarily interested in some aspect of commodities, others primarily or completely the supranational-currency aspect. These can overlap in several ways. The primary possibilities:
Saludos, Jazz Pickles. I hope you’ve had a good week. Mine included
celebrating my birthday. Thus far, I’ve been having a birthday once a year
but I think I may do it less frequently. It seems to be making me older a
little faster than I’d prefer…
Dreams of high office can come true… however daft
Continue reading...Why did used cars lead to inflation in the US but not Australia? How important are housing rents to inflation? Answering these questions means unpicking inflation measurement.
The currency of international trade has been on a lot of peoples' minds in the last few years. The hierarchy of currencies literature, the related questions of reforming the international monetary and financial system (IMFS), the effects of US monetary policy on the rest of the world (ROW). Add to that the war in Ukraine and Chinese trade-related discussion on the role of the ruble, dollar, yuan, oil and natural gas, wheat etc.
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The BBC have released the trailer for The Power Of The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker's final outing as the Thirteenth Doctor!
In the trailer we see The Master, Daleks, Cybermen, and appearances from previous companions Ace & Tegan.
The Power Of The Doctor airs on Sunday 23rd October at 7:30pm.
[Source: BBC]
Employment growth remains strong as rate hikes continue to contribute to a now rising federal deficit that is supporting growth, contrary to Fed expectations. This leads to more hikes intended to soften growth and inflation that in fact support growth and inflation: The Saudis are on the warpath after a falling out with President Biden, […]
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Organizing a Key Battleground State with New Georgia Project Action Fund
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down (virtually) with Nsé Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project Action Fund.
Nsé is an incredible organizer who describes her nonprofit as a “tech startup inside a civil rights and voting rights organization” that is making strides to build collective power for working people in Georgia.
There’s a lot of concern that the Federal Reserve is going to keep raising interest rates until it forces something to “break.” I share that concern. If you follow financial markets, then you’ve undoubtedly heard people like Scott Minerd say that he thinks the Fed will continue with rate increases until “something breaks.” He’s been arguing for some time that the Fed is steering us into a crisis by relying on backward-looking price (and other) signals for guidance about the underlying strength of the US economy. He’s
The BBC’s promotion of dark-money lobby groups no longer looks like an accident. It looks like a policy. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th October 2022 Some of it is easy to understand. Liz Truss, a hollow vessel filled with secondhand ideas by the dark-money thinktanks, believed their assurances that the magic of […]
Earlier this year, I participated in the launch event for a new program of study in the Economics of Sustainability at Torrens University. The program offers students the opportunity to earn a Graduate Certificate, a Graduate Diploma or a Master’s Degree
I’m doing a kickstarter to reprint the Too Much Coffee Man 1-9 comics in a single small book. I’m annotating the books with short introductions explaining some of the jokes, references, and themes.
Taxation data shows which occupations will get the biggest cuts - and how few people work in them
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Cross-posted from Pepe Escobar’s The Cradle. It is impossible to track the geoeconomic turbulence inherent to the “birth pangs” of the multipolar world without the insights of Professor Michael Hudson at the University of Missouri, and author of the already seminal The Destiny of Civilization. In his latest essay, Professor Hudson digs deeper into Germany’s Continue Reading
The post Escaping the Western Rentier first appeared on Michael Hudson.On August 9, President Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law. Today, the president is in my home state, touting the legislation at the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York. The bill provides $52.7 billion for American semiconductor research, development, manufacturing, and workforce development. The White House