Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people donât want them
CBDCs could create a two-tier wealth system: non-programmable assets for the elite and total digital surveillance for the population.
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Econ 196 :: Societies of Domination :: Pre-Class Assignmentâdo before 2026-02-15 23:59 PST
What I am teaching in my seminar these days: predatory thugs with spears and transitory economic booms with limitsâagrarian-age antiquity as both domination and efflorescenceâŠ
Corporations Are Winning the Stock Market.
Hereâs a New Plan for Everyone Else
Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled?
Troubling global warming updates from the authoritative James Hansen.
CROSSPOST: JOSH MARSHALL: Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement
Billionaires, Bots, and a 'Bloid for Smart People: In Praise of Josh Marshallâs TPM âTalking Points Memoâ. Today we have Joshâs analysis of todayâs âglobal authoritarian movementâ of Trump, Musk...
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Bloombergâs $108 Oil as Worst Case Iran War Scenario: Too Optimistic?
A detailed Bloomberg report lays out different scenarios for oil prices if Iran attacks. Is its forecast of a worst case of $108 a barrel too cheery?
Top Links 1011 Does AI raise productivity? Jay Z and the class struggle. Gadamer and Derrida in Heidelberg.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Making America Stagnate Again
Deportations donât create jobs and will increase deaths of native-born Americans. Who knew?
Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Medea Benjamin provides a gripping on-the-ground report of how conditions in Cuba are deteriorating due to the US oil blockage.
Satyajit Das: On Cinema â Antonioniâs Mysteries
A look at the major works of Michelangelo Antonioni and how he influenced film-making.
A pedagogical tax
Why the rich should be Uber-taxed
Coffee Break: Crisis of Credibility Edition
The crisis of credibility faced by Western elites as they try and fail to patch over the bursting abscess that is the Epstein files release heralds something much more profound: potential systemic col
Econ 210a :: Why the Agrarian Age Stayed Poor: Just What Was the Long-Run Trap Anyway?
What kept the rate of growth of human âtechnologyâ at less than 3% per century back before the year 200âand progress not guaranteed, as the Late Bronze Age collapse and the post-Roman-Han Dark Age...
Direct Lending vs. High Yield Bonds
What the Performance Data Really Shows
Costs of Device-Reliant Parenting: Kids Deficient in Empathy and Storytelling Skills, Canât Read, Show Declining Cognitive Performance
Another disconcerting report on the harm done to kids by device and tech heavy parenting
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Top Link 1010 Have US tariffs peaked? Is this the final crypto winter? Fei Xiaotong and the fate of Chinese sociology & Troeltsch and the crisis of historicism.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Health and Wellbeing in the Age of Diagnosis
In this modern world, sometimes it seems that everyone has âsomething,â and many of these conditions are relatively ânewâ and their incidence is increasing. Leading diagnoses from the Diagnostic and
The Banality of MAGA Evil
Instead of criminal masterminds we got amoral, stupid grifters like Howard Lutnick
Roundup #77: The Fix-Everything Button
BART fare gates; AI and jobs, again; Tariffs and trade deficits; Jon Stewart vs. the economists; H-1Bs; Japan's fiscal position
Selling Insurance to the Poor
The facts on index-based insurance
Pre-Class Assignment for Tuesday: 2026-01-27 :: Econ 196 :: Productivity & Technology
From candles to code & the brightness of modern prosperity: Malthus, LEDs, LLMs, & MOAR!âŠ
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse â The Incredible Shrinking âMost Powerful Military in Historyâ
The United States is not merely losing military capacityâit is losing the ability to recognize what it no longer has. As political posture outruns material readiness, allies and adversaries are condit
Style Investing Meets IPO Markets
New research reveals that style investingâthe tendency of investors to chase recently hot investment stylesâplays a crucial role in IPO markets, with important implications for anyone investing in new
âThis Is Your Moneyâ: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion
The affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.
Review: How Africa Works
Joe Studwell Turns To Africa
Top Links 1009 The phases of US wage stagnation and growth. Stress testing. Roman trade routes and existential historicism.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
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The Ultimate Insult: As Washington Starves Cuba of Energy (And Most Everything Else), It Offers $6 Million in Humanitarian Aid
The US State Department insists that US restrictions on oil in Cuba are not amplifying the need for humanitarian aid there.
No, AI Doesnât Justify Lower Interest Rates
Debunking the latest Trump-minion talking point
Americaâs Real Health Crisis? Inequalityâ and a Generation Pays
Raw milk wonât cut it. Even being rich wonât save you. The fast track to improving health in America is tackling inequality
The European Veal Pen: How the US Weaponized Russophobic Paranoia & Energy Geopolitics To Capture Control of Europe
Can Europe free itself from its capture by the US, which looked like a dandy idea until the US became an openly predatory hegemon?
How To Save American Democracy
A simple proposal
CROSSPOST: PAUL KRUGMAN: Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment
Paul Krugman's subhead is: What JD Vance and his entourage in Milan teach us about Epsteinâs magnetism.
Assessing Brink Lindsey's "the Permanent Problem"
The Enlightenment and modernity have, Brink Lindsey argues, led to mass society and mass affluence. But their overrun has also created a world where individuals are buffeted by strange alien and...
Coffee Break: Trumpâs Stochastic Election Attacks, AIPAC Misfire
In 2026, U.S. politics is definied by two trends: Democrats surging in special elections and Trump attacking the very idea of elections.
CROSSPOST: PHIL H: What Does Corruption Look Like?
Phil H.'s subtitle is: "They'll tell you not to believe what you can see with your own eyes". The post is about China's Tang Dynasty poet Han Hong's "Cold Food Festival" poem.
Private Credit Defaults
Systemic or Idiosyncratic?
Journalism May Be Too Slow To Remain Credible Once Events Are Filtered Through Social Media
Some hand-wringing, as well as blame shifting, as to why social media and independent sites are eating the lunches of mainstream media.
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