As the ACCC cracks down on Dominique Grubisa for alleged breach of Australian Consumer Law, she continues to peddle her snake oil asset protection product. read now...House Republicans want to assume the mantle of one of the nation's most iconic investigative committees, but the differences are stark.
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A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Rob Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
Hi, I’m Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news. In a few seconds, I’ll be back with Rob Johnson to talk about a ticking time bomb in the global financial system.
I hate to be the bearer of more bad news, but there’s a story that appeared in the Business Press but received almost no attention in mass media. I think capitalism is in chaos and is out of solutions. If the climate crisis wasn’t enough to convince you, here’s another example.
New data shows the call for yearslong recession from monetary hawks like Summers has aged poorly.
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Michael Hudson foresaw this years ago, but the details were not yet clear at that time. Now it is unfolding. This is also the objective with the rest of the world, which is what "US hegemony" means economically.
MR OnlineConsolidation of markets at the hands of U.S. companies that are actively engaged in mergers and acquisitions raises an important question about the political ramifications of market concentration. Do mergers and acquisitions impact the lobbying clout of these acquisitive firms? A new working paper delves into this connection and finds some intriguing, if also preliminary, affirmative evidence.
Double explores yet another new era of Torchwood, as Roberta Craven battles to save the decade that taste forgot In many ways Double represents Big Finish’s most ambitious idea for Torchwood yet. Oh, they’ve told the continuing adventures of the Torchwood Three team post-Miracle Day, introducing a set of new team mates. They’ve fleshed out […]
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Reviewer #1
I enjoyed reading your article “Man, Superman, Super Mario,” a Nietzschean study of the early Mario Brothers games. I found myself especially compelled by your argument that the raccoon suit represents the Übermensch form of the Mario character.
However, your paper is not even remotely publishable unless you add another three thousand words discussing Benderman’s brilliant argument from his book Super Marxio Brothers (2007) about how the plumber protagonists symbolize the exploitation of the proletariat.
Also, after listening to the first four episodes of a seventeen-hour WNYC podcast on the history of fonts, I insist that all authors format papers in Helvetica Neue.
Jeff Beck has died! A masterful musician. Very sad. We move on. I read an interesting research paper recently – “The Great Retirement Boom”: The Pandemic-Era Surge in Retirements and Implications for Future Labor Force Participation – published in the US Federal Reserve Bank’s Finance and Economics Discussion Series (released November 2022), which illustrates how the pandemic is altering the behaviour of the US labour market. The lessons from the US are relevant everywhere as governments progressively ignore the reality that a dangerous virus is still in our midst and still causing havoc (deaths, long-term disability and more). For those who are continuing to claim the pandemic is some sort of conspiracy to control us or that Covid is less dangerous than influenza or that mask wearing is redundant and all the rest of the nonsense that seems to perpetrated by some on the Left who think they are for ‘freedom’ and those on the Right who just care about profits, this sort of research should presents a serious wake up call....Bill Mitchell – billy blog