Yves here. While this piece teases out an interesting thesis ‘splaining apparent Trump economic madness, IMHO Varoufakis gets off on the wrong foot by depicting Trump and his team as…
Yves here. This post of the collateral damage, as in unnecessary deaths and other damage done to patients when hospitals are overloaded by climate extreme episodes has more general application.…
I consider the pursuit of comprehensive national defense against nuclear missile attack to be what Paul Krugman calls a “zombie idea,” an idea that refuses to die despite being refuted…
Yves here. The use of psychedelic mushrooms as a mental health treatment is a potentially important step forward, but this post suggests that the experiment part is not an inaccurate…
Imagine a technology that could facilitate an unprecedented expansion of totalitarian power in the hands of the ECB and EU Commission. What could possibly go wrong? If you are a…
Yves here. I hope you’ll give this important post the attention it deserves. It presents a distressingly plausible explanation of what Musk and his fellow tech broligarchs are up to…
Yves here. Even though most geopolitically oriented eyes are focused on Ukraine, the related peace talks, and the dangerously simmering situation in the Middle East, particularly serious US noises about…
The EU plans to continue the war with Russia are coming apart in a welter of debt and recriminations. Putin Delivers an Address to People in the West Putin told…
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Yves here. Satyajit Das takes a high-level, measured approach to DOGE, stressing an issue that is oddly underplayed in American debates: that it’s fundamentally wrong-headed to approach government using the…