Category: Economy

Dear patient readers, Your humble blogger is en route to checking out a possible place to which to move after I evict myself later in the coming months (I am…

Conor here: It’s good to see NATO’s escalation in Ukraine and the increasing risk of nuclear war getting some attention. As the author states, “the risk of weapons capable of…

The US again is going through its debt ceiling ritual, although there are a few variants on established themes. Rest assured, there will be no voluntary default. As a currency…

Yves here. Urban dwellers due to their limited contact with nature, are less afflicted by animal nuisances, with rats and pigeons as exceptions. However, given that focus, this post omits…

I’m sure everyone’s a bit Davos’d out, but as I read the WEF and Ukraine news this week, I couldn’t help but connect the WEF ideology to Europe’s self-immolation. It’s also…

Conor here: The conclusions from this reexamination of societies based in and around Monte Albán seem especially relevant for us today: “Collective action and localized economic production are a recipe…

Economy 09 January 2023, 6:22 pm. 1 minute By Reuters News Agency Reuters shed light on how India’s nominal GDP growth is likely to fall in 2023-24, hurting tax collections…

Hunting for future-proof marine plants in the acidic waters bathing a volcano Monga Bay All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest WaPo Things are looking up…

Yves here. Readers may regard the title as “dog bites man,” but our supposed betters expect to be treated with a great deal of deference. That includes not having Davos…

Yves here. We were far from alone in saying that having the Fed try to tackle this inflation using its blunt tool of interest rates, was destined to whack workers…