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  • New Endings: How Starmer Lost Gorton and Denton

    Britain’s Labour Prime Minister is an accidental genius. Having won a comprehensive election victory in 2024 for not being a disturbed, sociopathic Tory leader, Sir Keir Starmer is now engineering his party into a position of electoral defeat and obituary-laden oblivion. Sclerotic, static, inert, incapable, his Labour Party government risks suffering a most deserved annihilation […]

  • Nicaragua’s Economy “Weathers Multiple Shocks” Including US Attacks

    The International Monetary Fund’s new assessment of Nicaragua’s economy labels it as “strong” no fewer than 56 times. But it also shows how key factors in the country’s growing prosperity – export earnings, trade relations and remittances (money sent by Nicaraguans living abroad) are vulnerable to US attacks. The IMF points out that US sanctions […]

  • Authoritarians’ Promise of “Law and Order” Always Translates to Lawlessness at the Top

    Authoritarians’ Promise of “Law and Order” Always Translates to Lawlessness at the Top

    Human history is a crime scene, and the perps have been, more often than not, men in uniform, often agents of the law, deployed by the political class to carry out their criminal intent. A defining refrain of Adolf Hitler was: “law and order.” Law enforcement entailed the perpetration of authoritarian ideology on the German […]

  • Let’s Shift Federal Subsidies to Loans After 1 Year, Starting With Oil/Gas Industry?

    Let’s Shift Federal Subsidies to Loans After 1 Year, Starting With Oil/Gas Industry?

    The origin of federal subsidies—to businesses, industries, farmers, national infrastructure—began with our country’s first Congress (1789) approving startup financing that banks and other sources couldn’t or wouldn’t provide. The idea then (and now) was that if these investments were successful, they would trigger other enterprises. Subsequent jobs would follow, feeding consumer spending, and, ultimately, federal […]

  • Listening to Tupac in the Andes

    Listening to Tupac in the Andes

    A young man sports a Tupac (2Pac) Shakur t-shirt in Parque Carolina (Quito, Ecuador) Photo: Julian Cola Cruising the streets of Quito, it’s my distinct impression that the top five music artists or groups, their name or image printed on fans’ t-shirts, are Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, and Tupac (2Pac) Shakur. […]

  • The World’s Richest People are Chinese, not Americans

    The World’s Richest People are Chinese, not Americans

    Four years after defeating the US in battle, in 1955, Mao told colleagues, “If we can’t overtake America in 100 years we don’t deserve to exist. We should be wiped off the face of the earth”. Less than seventy years later, China overtook America. Today, Chinese are much richer than their American and European counterparts, […]

  • What Lies behind Nvidia’s Commitment to “unswervingly serving the Chinese market”

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has visited China again three months after his trip in January, recently publicly stated that the company would “unswervingly serve the Chinese market” and emphasized China’s key role in the global supply chain. He said Nvidia has grown together with the Chinese market and achieved mutual success. Against the backdrop […]

  • The Return of Stagflation

    When investing, as in horror films, the most terrifying villains are the ones we thought were dead. Stagflation that economic nightmare of the 1970s characterized by stagnant growth paired with persistent inflation was supposedly dead and buried decades ago. But like any good movie monster, it’s clawing its way back to the surface, and Americans […]

  • Starmer’s Fingerprints, Not Just the Tories’, are all over Britain’s Race Riots

    Starmer’s Fingerprints, Not Just the Tories’, are all over Britain’s Race Riots

    Imagine this scene, if you can. For several days, violent mobs have massed in the centre of British cities and clashed with police in an attempt to reach synagogues to attack them. Draped in England flags and Union Jacks, and armed with cricket bats and metal rods, the trouble-makers have dismantled garden walls to throw […]

  • Sacred Economics: Shylock as Anti-Christ

    Sacred Economics: Shylock as Anti-Christ

    Money vs the gift Sacred Economics 100 Deconstructing the Story of Self/ the World Life without prisons Marx’s ‘death knell’ of capitalism, revolution, was the first answer to capitalism’s ills, after which the state would wither away, and we would live in a utopian bliss. The 20th century put paid to that vision, as revolution, […]

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