Everyone's a Lender Now: Shadow Banking USA
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*How much private credit has been put in place but isn't in the official
credit total is unknown and very likely unknowable. That means total
systemic risk...
The world’s three best cuisines
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In light of the absence of news as well as my recurring insomnia, which has
made me unable to brain, I’m posting a list of what I consider the three
best c...
Just Intonation (Part 6)
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In this series I’ve been explaining 12-tone scales in just intonation—or
more precisely, ‘5-limit’ just intonation, where all the frequency ratios
are inte...
Why do economists never mention power?
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from Lars Syll The intransigence of Econ 101 points to a dark side of
economics — namely that the absence of power-speak is by design. Could it
be that eco...
How U.S. Security Became a Global Risk
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Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff dissect the United States’ new National
Security Strategy, arguing that America’s pursuit of security through
global con...
2025 in podcasts (Overcast)
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I’ve long used podcasts as a way to distract me while travelling for
business trips, doing housework at the weekends, shopping, and much more…
This year, I...
Shadow Fleet farce ending!
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Russia is now claiming their ships and playing a game of chicken! A direct
confrontation with Russia and the west is now looming and could happen
anywhere!
The Reading Instruction Policy Rope: A One-Pager
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*The Reading Instruction Policy Rope (Pamela Snow; 2025) *
As 2025 draws to a close, I thought it might be helpful to put into one
place, a compilation ...
Why I support the SPEED Act
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Today Congress decides whether it’ll be easy or hard to build in the US.
Tell your Representative Vote YES on SPEED Act + Amendments 34/35/36!
A good summation of the VPRI STEPS project
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I learned about STEPS from the ViewPoints Research Institute (VPRI) in
about 2008. It’s goal was to create a usable office system, from the ground
up (incl...
Adventures with Deep Research
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How my AI report on housework started well, then went off the rails I’ve
long been interested in the topic of housework, as you can see from this
Crooked T...
Energy Predictions 2025
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Printable pdf. It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy,
so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed
specific pos...
Pride and posting
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[image: The university district in Seattle, with a post rain shower rainbow
amidst a cloudy sky.]A view from the UW Tower, on a sunny Autumn day.
Like most...
Too many promises; too few future physical goods
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The world is filled with financial promises, including loans, pensions, and
even the market value of stocks. So far, the system seems to be working,
but in...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
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From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth
birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled
contr...
Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy
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by Mila Zinkova Reassessing The Coldest March by Susan Solomon On Thursday,
29 March 1912, Captain Scott (1914) made the final entry in his Journal. He
w...
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
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Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years
ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite
nothing. T...
The Final Step of the Scientific Method
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An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive
logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by
their habit: ...
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