Recommended paper: Funding of the energy transition by monetary sovereign countries: Energies Mark Diesendorf and Steven Hail Abstract of paper: If global energy consumption returns…
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Today, on May 1, we celebrate – International Workers’ Day – which is a “celebration of labourers and the working classes” and keeps the hope alive that solidarity can prevail and together we can turn the ship around. So raise our glasses! Clink. Clink.
People are closely watching the US data at present to see what the impacts of the recent tariff decisions by the new US President might have. I am no exception. Yesterday (April 30, 2025), the US Bureau of Economic Analysis published the latest US National Accounts figures – Gross Domestic Product, 1st Quarter 2025 (Advance…
Wealth inequality housing cost is hollowing out middle Australia Harry Chemay Australians are among the wealthiest people, yet life has never felt harder for many.…
Comments on the previous article by Harry Chemay Wayne McMillan In the previous article, Harry Chemay has faithfully kept to the findings and conclusions from…
Can Citizen Assemblies save democracy? Peter G. Martin Global wealth inequality is accelerating at alarming rates, driving a political ferment that many consider underlies the…
Milei’s “radical plan”, revisited – part 1 Peter Rock-Lacroix In 2023, Javier Milei pitched dollarization as the path toward prosperity for Argentina. Two years on,…
Peter Dutton’s replacement, err, shadow Treasurer, Angus Taylor, has promised the Nation that he will deliver the Coalition’s costings as soon as he finds the napkin that he wrote them on. ”People need a bit of patience, we will get... Read More ›
The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself
The post Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness appeared first on Nautilus.
Patents and the Abundance Agenda Dean Baker I haven’t read Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance, but everyone I know seems to be…
Toward sustainable economies Anastasia Pseiridis Creating economies that do not devastate the natural world on which they depend is the economic challenge of the 21st…
Harvard released dueling reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim bias. Guess which one the Times emphasized?
The post How the New York Times Distorts the Antisemitism Debate on College Campuses appeared first on The Intercept.
NAIRU — a harmful fairy tale Lars Syll The NAIRU story has always had a very clear policy implication – every attempt to promote full…
Back in 2022, after my first encounter with ChatGPT, I suggested that it was likely to wipe out large categories of “bullshit jobs”, but unlikely to create mass unemployment. In retrospect, that was probably an overestimate of the likely impact. But three years later, it seems as if an update might be appropriate. In the last […]
In key victories for students, judges ruled to release Mohsen Mahdawi and allow Mahmoud Khalil’s case to advance in federal court.
The post Students Are Winning in Court Against Trump’s Deportation Regime appeared first on The Intercept.
As David Keeling led companies’ safety operations, workers fell ill and died amid extreme temperatures. Now he could dismantle federal heat protections.
A new Federal Reserve study says record corporate profit increases are "driven by an increase in the dividends rewarding shareholders.”
A Wall Street auto analyst says the Big Three American carmakers are unlikely to benefit much, while Musk’s Tesla gets a leg up for now.
The post Trump’s Auto Tariff Relief “Helps Tesla a Lot” — Leaving Other Carmakers Behind appeared first on The Intercept.
“President Trump signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have ‘abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)–based standards.’” — NPR
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In light of the recent absolutely-not-political-at-all orders from the federal government to systematically dismantle any institutional memory of the words “diversity,” “equity,” or “inclusion” (and to replace them with something more patriotic, like “freedom of sameness”), Southwestern University for Civic Knowledge (SUCK) would like to reassure the community that it remains firmly committed to whatever version of moral clarity is currently legally advisable.