Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Unfortunate Philippines
The Philippines is often described as a country afflicted by a succession of internal conflicts: colonial rebellion, communist insurgency, separatist war, Islamist terrorism. This framing
Americans Aren’t Traumatized Enough by Gun Violence
Yves here. The failure to get serious about limits to gun ownership given the Second Amendment is disheartening. Gun registration and background checks should not
House Prices in Big Cities Cannot Be Expected to Come Down Any Time Soon
Conor here: Oddly enough there’s no mention in this piece from the Centre for Economic Policy Research of hedge fund and private equity investors buying
These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.
By Joe Fassler, a writer and journalist whose work on climate and technology appears in outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times, and Wired.
Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?
Yves here. To underscore the argument that Richard Murphy makes, it is excessive private debt that causes financial crises. Private debt in the US and
Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release Is Like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious
Yves here. The mainstream financial media has been openly skeptical of the latest US inflation report, as these headlines demonstrate. First from the Wall Street
What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
Yves here. I have to be confess to not being wild about the framing of this post, since as Tom Neuburger quickly points out, there
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Africa’s Enduring Wars
Armed conflict across Africa is routinely explained as the aftermath of colonialism, the meddling of external powers, the spread of transnational jihadism, or—at the crudest
Satyajit Das: AI – Artificial Intelligence or Absolute Insanity?
Yves here. Satyajit Das provides a high level but nevertheless very effective indictment of the scam known as AI. I hope readers will circulate this
Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
Yves here. This article from Global GeoPolitics documents in detail how key African states such as Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda have unwittingly and severely compromised