Are we prepared to re-route our cognitive map, or will the 'new normal' become permanent?
Ross Ashcroft met up with Robinson, to discuss why none of what we're experiencing is normal and, more importantly, what the alternative is.
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Well, it's been over six months since I last added to this blog. Sorry if you've been waiting that long. I have tended to concentrate on my Twitter feed and adding a selection of material to the gallery on my Ko-fi page. I'm not the best writer of prose and the blog can be a bit of a chore at times.
I'll be spending the next week or so bringing it up to date with my work so far. Most of this will be stuff that I've tweeted over the past six months but there will be some new things thrown in there too. I'll also try to give each piece some context where I can.
Welcome back.
Research suggests the racial wealth gap has been less about making different choices and more about having different choices to make, according to an opinion piece.
The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it.
Part of what has defined the West – and most of what has been the world’s engine of prosperity for the past century and a half – has been the free flow of goods across borders, a working banking system, and property rights.
There’s been an implicit understanding that no sizeable nation (Russia’s economy is about the size of Australia’s) would be denied access to these things. Otherwise the financial system wouldn’t be the financial system.
That seems to have been the understanding of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But ten days ago, the West did the unthinkable, and the global financial system may never be the same again.
Anticipating the inevitable question: the Cyrillic thought balloon is a Russian vulgarism which translates loosely as “we are so screwed.”
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All this geopolitical hot air was always going to be about gas, and, predicting that, before all the horse trading and brinkmanship began, we caught up with two independent energy experts, Irina Slav and Ben Aris.
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Fed Listens event participants highlighted trends, such as on labor availability, to help inform monetary policymakers about the U.S. economy’s path.
No one likes paying A$1.80 per litre for petrol. But amid forecasts of prices climbing to $2.10 as Russian’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, it’s possible some good could come of that pain – including greater energy independence and a faster path to net-zero emissions.
Two months ago, at the start of 2022, the typical Sydney and Melbourne unleaded price was $1.60 a litre. A year earlier, at the start of 2021, it was $1.20.
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