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The Black Death May Not Have Been Spread by Rats After All | naked capitalism
Yves here. Here we have what is taken as a well-established fact, that rats were the big perps in the propagation of the Black Death, shown as likely to be…
Spoils Of The Sanctions War – NATO Lion Meets Russian Tit For Tat | naked capitalism
Yves here. John Helmer looks at the interesting question of which Russian power players are getting first dibs on assets and businesses abandoned or otherwise exited by Western multinationals as…
Links 1/18/2023 | naked capitalism
Pooch portraits: Dog Photography awards – in pictures Guardian Knife-wielding North Carolina man leads police on chase on John Deere tractor, reaching 20 mph AL.com The Age of Free Money…
Why China’s Shrinking Population Is a Big Deal – Counting the Social, Economic and Political Costs of an Aging, Smaller Society | naked capitalism
Yves here. Articles like this are maddening. They take the view that demographic growth is necessary, when global population was largely static for prior to the Industrial Revolution. Moreover, given…
Twitter and Google Behaving Badly | naked capitalism
Yves here. Tom Neuburger has a short post with Twitter Files updates, plus evidence that Google is obstructing searches that ought to lead to his site. In a bit of…
Collapse Revisited: Climate Change and the Development of Middle-Income Countries | naked capitalism
Yves here. This article points out, in an unusually straightforward manner for an economics piece, that middle-income countries getting to first world levels of income (and therefore consumption) will be…
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/18/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Black Phoebe (Northern). American Canyon Campground,, San Luis Obispo, California, United States. Here is the “media note” to end all…
Oil Prices Rally As Confidence In A Global Economic Rebound Grows | naked capitalism
Yves here. Wellie, if you read our earlier post on sentiment at Davos, you would have noticed that the Financial Times decided to flog an IMF economic upgrade very hard…
Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and the Tenor of Our Time | naked capitalism
Yves here. The Hayekian fantasy, and Isaiah Berlin’s closely aligned belief, that the measure of freedom is the ability to take unfettered individual action, shows how Industrial-Revolution created infrastructure and…