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Friday, April 19, 2024

How To Solve The Big Tech Problem Without Violating Anyone's Rights (Updated Re-Post)

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"Big Tech is the new Big Tobacco" is often  bandied about  these days.  And while that has a kernel of truth to it (a kernel the s...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Why The WHO Pandemic Treaty Needs Serious Revision Before It Can Be Signed

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(Updated from the 2023 version ) The current draft of the WHO pandemic treaty is very close to being finalized now.  And while the "fa...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Degrowth Is A Nonstarter And Won't Work. Here's What Will Instead. (Re-Post)

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From ecological overshoot to all of its attendant crises, including climate change, resource depletion, pollution, and mass extinction, alon...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

The (Partial) Solution To "Limbic Capitalism"

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" Limbic capitalism " is the term of art given to the phenomenon by which Big Business deliberately engineers addiction to variou...
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Friday, March 22, 2024

Objections To Universal Basic Income Debunked (Updated Re-Post)

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Back in 2017, there was an  article  in  The Week  by Damon Linker titled, "The Spiritual Ruin of a Universal Basic Income".  He b...
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Sunday, March 17, 2024

"Catch And Release" Is A Truly Dumb Policy That Makes Zero Sense

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"Catch and release" of criminals is literally one of the very dumbest policies in all of recorded history, right up there with &qu...
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

A "Job Guarantee", Without The Guarantee?

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The TSAP has once endorsed the MMT idea of a Job Guarantee (JG), which is exactly what it sounds like.  Of course, we also supported Univers...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Hindsight Is Literally 2020

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Hindsight is quite literally 2020. Four years ago (roughly) today, the world lost its marbles and began to shut down.  And as we have noted ...
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Sunday, March 10, 2024

How To Escape A Stagflationary Quagmire

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What happens when the FERAL Reserve uses raising interest rates in an attempt to quash inflation?  You guessed it:  STAGFLATION. That is, a ...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

A Better Than Nordic-Style Social Welfare State With Less Than Florida Taxes

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A friendly reminder to all readers:  contrary to popular opinion, it is entirely possible to have a better than Nordic-style social welfare ...
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Saturday, March 2, 2024

Politics In One Lesson

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There is, in fact, an eternal law of nature that at once explains just about everything, and even makes politics possible to finally underst...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

Two Kinds Of Identity Politics

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We often hear the term "identity politics" bandied about as a negative thing.  Certainly, the flavor we have seen in recent years,...
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Friday, February 16, 2024

How To Defuse The QUADRILLION Dollar Derivatives Bubble (Part Deux)

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Last year we discussed the QUADRILLION dollar derivatives bubble and the risks that come with it.  Well, guess what?  That bubble is still ...
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Saturday, February 3, 2024

Last Chance To Avoid Recession

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Inflation is now effectively beaten.  Not only has it cooled significantly, but now the specter of  deflation  has recently been raised, and...
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Monday, January 29, 2024

How To Solve The Big Tech Problem Without Violating Anyone's Rights

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"Big Tech is the new Big Tobacco" is often   bandied about  these days.  And while that has a kernel of truth to it (a kernel the ...
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Sunday, January 28, 2024

State Of The Planet Address 2024

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It is now 2024, and this year the TSAP will not waste any time giving our annual State of the Planet Address as we do every year.   Yes, we ...
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