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Mon, 24/11/2025 - 19:34
Beamish Street (above, top left to bottom right) cuts across Campsie like a knife wound, only instead of blood, a spurt of discount stores, fresh produce markets and newsagents has erupted into the populace. A news-hungry populace. Seriously, there are no fewer than three newsagents active in a very small area here, with at least […]
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Mon, 24/11/2025 - 06:49
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 23, 2025 by Tony Wikrent   Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] “Riots […]
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Sun, 23/11/2025 - 23:01
Although discounting empirical evidence cannot be the right way to solve economic issues, there are still, in my view, a couple of weighty reasons why we perhaps shouldn’t be too enthusiastic about the so-called ‘empirical revolution’ that behavioural economics has brought about in mainstream economics. Behavioural experiments and laboratory research face the same fundamental problem […]
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Sat, 22/11/2025 - 23:56
• Harré, Rom (1960). An introduction to the logic of the sciences. London: Macmillan • Bhaskar, Roy (1978). A realist theory of science. Hassocks: Harvester • Garfinkel, Alan (1981). Forms of explanation: rethinking the questions in social theory. New Haven: Yale U.P. • Lieberson, Stanley (1987). Making it count: the improvement of social research and theory. Berkeley: Univ. […]
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Sat, 22/11/2025 - 13:58
The US is one big grift these days: the Trump Administration, traditional and social media, corporations, crypto, financial markets are all selling some kind of spurious promise. It’s hard to pick the most egregious example. But for me, it’s hard to go past Tesla. Having lost its dominant position in the electric car market, the […]
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Sat, 22/11/2025 - 08:27
After three decades of creating ruin and disaster across the globe, Larry Summers is finally being pushed from the lofty heights of power and prestige. The proximate cause of his downfall are recently released emails between Summers and suicided arms dealer/sex trafficker/intelligence asset/money launderer Jeffrey Epstein. The emails show the married, middle-aged Summers going to […]