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Sun, 07/12/2025 - 02:07
The server migration is complete, and DNS propagation is underway. If the posts you see suddenly changed, that’s why. As I wrote yesterday (in a disappeared post) most comments from yesterday after the snapshot used for the migration are taken are gone as the server was migrated from that snapshot of the site. Any comments […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 21:07
. Var vi har Timbrohögern och liberalerna i den här frågan vet vi sedan länge. Vad som däremot förvånar är att en annars så sansad ekonom som Lars Calmfors tydligen valt att ‘sälja ut’ sitt anseende och pondus i den här typen av viktiga samhällsekonomiska frågor genom att medverka i en ‘utredning’ finansierad av Stiftelsen […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 10:36
As part of fixing the site I’m migrating to a new service provider. A snapshot has been taken of the site from earlier today. That means this post will probably disappear tomorrow, and I will not be approving any comments till the site migration completes, except perhaps on this post, if I did, they’d likely […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 05:00

Season’s Greetings from the Mortons!

We know many of you look forward to opening your mailbox each December to receive the Morton annual Christmas card and extensive family newsletter. It brings us no good tidings to let you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to paywall it.

As the years have gone by, the letter has grown in scope. When we sent the first Christmas newsletter, we were just a two-person operation in a small home in Middlebury. Now we have to cover nine busy family members across four states. And sometimes Jessica has a boyfriend. It’s a big operation, and Clare had to learn Microsoft XL or whatever it’s called.

Everybody on our list will receive the Morton Christmas Card featuring a candid photo of us down by the lake, wearing matching outfits. And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.

Join the Morton Friend Tier for $17.00 to receive:

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 04:17
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching l’Etabli, the film of Robert Linhart’s book (which I own but have never read). It is an arresting depiction of the brutality of the assembly-line and the racalialised hierarchies at work in the factory. The theme of the film is of a Maoist cadre from an […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 03:20

Journalist Ahmed Kaballo joins Mnar Adley to examine Sudan’s civil war, UAE’s gold operations, US pressure in Africa, and the rise of the anti-imperialist alliances shaping the continent.

The post Sudan’s War, UAE Gold Networks, and the Rise of Anti-Imperialist Alliances appeared first on MintPress News.

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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 02:51
Lars Calmfors har på uppdrag av stiftelsen Fritt Näringsliv lett en utredning om huruvida Sverige borde ansluta sig till euron. I en debattartikel i Dagens industri framför han sina egna argument för ett medlemskap. Hans starkaste argument är att en anslutning till euron skulle öka svensk utrikeshandel med 5–7,5 procent. Det är möjligt att siffran […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 01:51
Nästa onsdag delas Nobelprisen ut vid den årliga prisceremonin i Stockholm. I  veckans avsnitt av Starta pressarna  diskuterar yours truly tillsammans med Daniel Suhonen, Elisabeth Lindberg och Max Jerneck vad för slags teorier årets ‘Nobelpris’ i ekonomi har premierat. Vi försöker också — med utgångspunkt bland annat från Isabella Webers teori om ‘seller’s inflation’ — […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 01:13
Roughly speaking there are two types of corporations in China. State owned (SOE) and private. During the policy driven real-estate bust, the countries biggest builder, Evergrande, went under. But there was an assumption that the government would bail out real-estate SOEs. Well the largest one, Vanke, is going under, and the central government is going […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 01:03

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A few pieces of creative advice shared by Debbie Harry:

  • You can’t please everyone all the time
  • You can never make a big enough fool of yourself
  • Use the perspective you’ve earned
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As my plans to interview Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie for The Believer first took shape, billboards sprang up, as if on cue, around Manhattan. Sprawled several stories high was Harry’s image, framed in a moody fashion-house ad. A glance up from the sidewalk suddenly felt freighted with the vastness of Blondie’s legend: the art and fashion iconography; the timeless hit songs; and the band’s enduring influence on countless artists, among them No Doubt, Garbage, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Paramore.