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Reward and Retribution Is the New U.S. Policy for Latin America

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

During the press conference after the meeting with Zelensky, a reporter asked Trump how he would proceed with Venezuela, since Maduro had “offered everything.” Trump’s answer was telling: “Yeah, he has offered everything, you know why? Because he does not want to fuck around with the United States.” On the other hand, the U.S. has […]

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Rob Urie: Democrats Who Created the Bad Status Quo Won’t Become Saviors

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

Yves here. Rob Urie works though the history key Democrats’ policies and how they are reflected now in some major political controversies to reconfirm how irredeemable the party is. Urie also looks at how AI is very useful to elites via how it parrots dominant narratives. By Rob Urie, author of Zen Economics, artist, and […]

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Legal Corruption Is Another Form of American Brain Rot

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

The term brain rot has been applied to LLMs and long covid but it’s also a useful term to describe the American legal corruption system in the Trump 2.0 era. I’ve written previously about the way the U.S. Supreme Court’s novel method of deciding cases without issuing formal rulings severs the top down lines of […]

Wall Street Banks Come to the “Rescue” of Milei’s Argentina Just Days Before Make-or-Break Elections

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon landed in Buenos Aires this week to attend an event the Wall Street lender is holding, precisely at a time that the bank is in negotiations to arrange a $20 billion loan for the Argentine government. The timing was apparently pure coincidence, given the event was organised long before […]

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Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial 404 Media Climate/Environment Increasing likelihood that Melissa will produce catastrophic impacts in parts of the Caribbean Balanced Weather Record Autumn Rains Swamp Harvest in China’s Grain-Belt Provinces Caixin Global Causal mechanisms of subpolar gyre variability in CMIP6 models European Geosciences Union. Summary: “The subpolar gyre […]

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Exposing the Hidden US History Fueling Tariffs, Shutdowns, and National Breakdown

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

Yves here. Most countries and peoples engage in flattering myth-making. But the exceptional US may be exceptional here in the degree to which we whitewash our history and the consequences of acing on these national myths. By Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst, Institute for New Economic Thinking. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic […]

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Coffee Break: Casey Means MD and MAHA, Health Insurance, Coffee Scat, and Big Brother at the Home of the Free Speech Movement

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

Part the First: Casey Means MD Is Still Awaiting Her Closeup. We discussed the Surgeon General in waiting some time ago in a review of her book, Good Energy. Her confirmation hearing in the US Senate is apparently still in the works. Dr. David Gorski has an update at SBM, Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey […]

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Economic Questions: The E F Schumacher Question

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

Yves here. I am surprised to see Richard Murphy put E F Schumacher, who I have to admit I have barely heard of because he is so rarely mentioned, implicitly as of similar importance as Karl Marx and Milton Friedman, who have been the focus of earlier “Economic Questions” posts. To perhaps oversimplify Schumacher, bigger […]

Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy

Ashley AlvarezOctober 26, 2025

Yves here. Wolf Richter has two informative pieces on the latest inflation data. His companion post, Massive Outlier in Owner’s Equivalent of Rent Pushed Down CPI, Core CPI, Core Services CPI: Something Went Awry at the BLS, looks at where there was figures-fixing that had the effect of lowering the reported key inflation measures. This […]

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