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…
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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.
In adapting tradition to suit our times, King Charles III is showing he cares. Perhaps we should consider a return to an absolute monarchy
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Is the ongoing rise in asylum applications from Pacific Island nations a case of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade shifting risks and costs to other agencies? read now...
Leveled off well above pre-Covid levels, and were held down by falling gasoline prices- no recession here: Adjusted for CPI/inflation: This was falling from the post-Covid fiscal collapse but has since recovered with the rate hikes:
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Once an independent muckraker, Greenwald has moved sharply rightward — but even so, this was embarrassing
By Eoin Higgins - Salon.com -- October 7, 2022
Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 14 job openings, 13 postdoc positions, 11 calls for papers for conferences (some are fully or partly funded) and special issues, 5 visiting positions, a PhD fellowship, and a grant in economic sociology, political economy, and related fields, with October 15 — […]
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The Australian Council of Trade Unions is sponsoring a series of webinars for union members, delegates, officials, and leaders on the current crisis in the cost of living in Australia. The surge in inflation since economic re-opening after COVID lockdowns has obviously intensified that crisis. But the seeds for it were planted long ago: by a decade of historically weak wage growth, a speculative property price bubble, and a systematic efforts to weaken collective bargaining and unionisation.
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The logical outcome of the UK’s current political situation is for a large section of Conservative Party MP’s to defect to Keir Starmer’s well right of centre, pro-Brexit, New Labour Party. Every now and then a number of Westminster MPs change party, to long term political effect. In 1886 The Liberal Unionists, opposed to Gladstone’s […]
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