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A new analysis examines inflationary pressures as demand for services continues to recover after its sharp fall during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some follow up comments to my appearance on the Ralph Nader show. I am looking forward to our next Q&A session with Patreon Plus supporters this Friday. Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash
The post We Do Read Comments: Re Nader first appeared on Michael Hudson.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…
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 — […]
