Are Rocks The Future Of Solar Power Collection? | naked capitalism
Yves here. Could readers sanity check this idea of using rocks as energy stores? Or rather whether it would scale? By Brian Westenhaus, the editor of the popular energy technology…
The Invisible Effect Medical Notes Have on Care | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post uses black patients as a case study in how doctors who have biased reactions and incorporate them into medical notes can then harm care, particularly when…
The New York Times Thinks Worker Suffering Is a Fair Price for Lower Inflation | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post provides a high-level debunking of the Fed/central bank approach of squeezing wages as the first line of attack against of inflation. It cites the views of…
Links 6/30/2023 | naked capitalism
How to Remove a Tick Field & Stream Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view The Register U.S. Economy Shows Surprising…
The Digital Euro, Like All Prospective CBDCs, Has a Serious Marketing Problem | naked capitalism
CBDCs may be all the rage among central bankers, but as long as they offer little in the way of public benefit while posing huge risks to privacy, anonymity and…
Rob Urie: Mr. Prigozhin Goes to Washington | naked capitalism
Yves here. Please welcome Rob Urie, whom many of you have read at Counterpunch. We are excited to feature him here. His must-read offering takes a historical look at US/Russia…
Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis | naked capitalism
Yves here. Political scientist Tom Ferguson explains how economists and central bank models and approaches to climate change have thrown sand in the gears of the daunting task of shifting…
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/28/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this is a bit light because I’m on the road and fighting connectivity issues. –lambert Bird Song of the Day American Goldfinch, Mount…
‘Really Big’: US Supreme Court Ruling Against Norfolk Southern Seen as Rebuke to Corporate Impunity | naked capitalism
Yves here. Once in a while, even our Supreme Court decides in favor of the little guy. But I’m surprised that the objection to the Pennsylvania “consent by registration” requirement…
Links 6/29/2023 | naked capitalism
15 Years of Radio Data Reveals Evidence of Space-Time Murmur (press release) NASA. “The motion of black holes and other massive objects through space can create ripples in the fabric…