2:00PM Water Cooler 10/24/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Common Nightingale, Vía sin nombre, Villafranca, Navarra, Comunidad Foral de, Spain. “Foraging or eating.” In Case You Might Miss… Anti-Trump…
Links 10/24/2024 | naked capitalism
Fungal ‘Brains’ Can Think Like Human Minds, Scientists Say Popular Mechanics. Original; press release. The deck: “They’re not quite on our level, but they’re not as far off as you…
‘Hate and Lust for Vengeance Are Passed Like Poison from One Generation to the Next’ | naked capitalism
Yves here. While this Thomas Neuburger post, and the Chris Hedges tweetstorm that inspired it, make the important point that violence begats violence, the framing bothers me. The focus on…
The Economics of Medicine: Personal Reflections | naked capitalism
Yves here. Readers regularly give updates on the crapification of medicine, mainly from the patient but sometimes the provider side. A big driver is insurance: obstacles like pre-approvals or other…
My Life in Writing Bits and Bytes (Partly, at Least) | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers will recall the previous two posts in what became this series: My Life So Far in Writing Tools, where tools were very analog printed…
The Medici’s Quiet Coup: How the Wealthy Bend Politics without Shifting Institutions | naked capitalism
Lambert here, speculating freely: The world-systems analyst Giovanni Arrighi argued (I paraphrase from memory) that the “center of gravity,” as it were, of capitalism moved in a spiral pattern from…
The Great Game of Logistics | naked capitalism
I’ve covered the Zangezur Corridor in southern Armenia with some regularity here. It’s a short 42-kilometer strip of land link in a trade and energy route that stretches the length…
Housing, Tariffs and Debt: Four Experts Debate How to Fix the American Economy
One set of writers on the left and another on the right lay out competing visions for what the next president should do.
Links 10/23/2024 | naked capitalism
What is the piebald deer, the rare animal recently spotted in Western Pennsylvania? CBS Pittsburgh Kentucky Man Declared Brain Dead Wakes Up Moments Before Organ Harvesting ZME Science How Zombies…
Heterodox Approaches Will Provide Answers to the Multiple Cascading Crises of Our Future | naked capitalism
Yves here. KLG, drawing on the ideas of Elinor Olstrom, argues that the thinking that got us into our current mess, particularly but not solely climate climate change and environmental…