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The past 6 months has seen a record rise in the amount of interest households are having to pay
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The 90th issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy was published this week, at the end of a deeply troubling year – with Russia’s war on Ukraine, the emergence of strong inflationary tendencies, growing fears of economic recession, and mounting evidence of deepening climate change. Incisive political economic analysis is always needed for understanding what is happening in the world around us – but now more than ever [...]
The post What’s new in Australian Political Economy? appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).
Arizona is ground zero for the wackiest theories and craziest political candidates. Exhibit A: Kari Lake, the Republican who ran for governor in the recent midterm elections. Though she lost in November, she’s still campaigning — on social media, in the courts, and in her own beclouded imagination. She refuses to accept that Katie Hobbs, her Democratic opponent, won by 0.6% of the vote. It’s a delusion she shares with Donald Trump who tweeted that Lake should be “installed” in the position anyway, like a triumphant coup leader. Lake, Trump, and all-too-many Americans now believe that any election in which a MAGA extremist doesn’t achieve a pre-ordained victory is, by definition, “stolen.” Then there’s Blake Masters, the losing Arizona Republican... Read more
Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore: China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan.The Cradle
Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive
Pepe Escobar
I have a major reporting deadline today and also have to travel interstate, which means I have no spare time at all. So for today, I am promoting a Podcast I recorded a few weeks ago with Steve Grumbine at…
Election results over the year now ending offer grounds for hope for democracy. read now...
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I wanted to explore if I could bend my style around a bolder composition choice and stylised main shapes. Just to experiment how it could bring a modern more contemporary perfume to my style.
The theme is probably obvious as we reach the end of 2022, it will be also the end of my long period of experimentation and I'll go back to paint the next webcomic episode.
Another Message Board Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’ve moved my irregular email news from Mailchimp to Substack. You can read it here. You can also follow me on Mastodon here I’m also trying out Substack as a blogging […]
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 18, 2022
by Tony Wikrent
Strategic Political Economy
We need the return of the state
[Tax Research UK, via Naked Capitalism 12-14-2022]
Neoliberalism is built on lies. For decades the deceit at its core has been ignored because it appeared to deliver prosperity. It does not any more. That is why everything is unravelling.
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Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa is damn proud of the fit of his trousers and is making his case via video. Plus, more "behind"-the-scenes looks.
Here’s a quick one for my friends still on Twitter. There is a new policy against promotion of alternative social platforms . If you have not moved to Mastodon yet, do it now. It will be much easier to use tools to make the move now, while many in your Twitter social graph are still … Continue reading Twitter now prohibits links to other social networks
The case for stronger automatic stabilizers.
The Lens
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
Food waste is a leading contributor of greenhouse gases. These Detroit restaurants are finding creative – and tasty – ways to reduce their contribution.
The case for stronger automatic stabilizers.
Epic Bigfoot nipple slide (Thanks to pharmaross)
It is the first time a nation has won the trophy without getting past the group stages
Anxiety added as condition for medical weed in New Mexico (Thanks to GJ, who says "It makes me anxious to run out of weed.")
*They used to “laugh and call him names.” Now they’re all dead
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Doctor Who, Wednesday, The Umbrella Academy, SNL/Cecily Strong, House of the Dragon, Yellowstone & more!