Shrunken Brains
Gregory Cochran brusquely dispatches what might be the most incompetent piece of ‘scientific’ reasoning in recent years (although the competition for that honor gets ever more intense). The discovery —...
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Steen Jakobsen sounds the abyss in the final sentence of this short analysis (embedded video): … a big fat zero in terms of hope for the future. ADDED: Jakobsen talks to Chris Martenson on ‘the biggest...
View ArticleKicking the Can
It’s difficult to keep track of all the ways in which the hyperbolic explosion of time-preference is expressed in the present world economic order, especially in its Western core, where the rot is...
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Either Europe is absorbed into Africa or at some point it learns, pitilessly, to say ‘no’. Neither alternative is likely to be remotely pretty. The 21st century would probably be a good time to be...
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Robert Tracinski on ‘The Paradox of Dogma': If I were to come up with one idea for how the left could cripple itself over the long term, it would be: teach your young adherents that ideological debate...
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William M. Briggs on the morbid backdrop to Britain’s electoral circus (among many other things): England … will soon have an election in which one of the candidates, Ed Miliband, promises that, if...
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Social Darwin Awards contender ‘Comix Experience’ [sic]: “We’re for a living wage, for a minimum wage, in principle. … But I think any law that doesn’t look at whether people can pay may not be the...
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Elizabeth Price Foley @ Instapundit: Pope Francis has been dogged by accusations that he is sympathetic to communism. The Pope doesn’t help allay these concerns when he meets with Raul Castro,...
View ArticleDoom Horizon
Malcolm Pollack has been on the dark wave recently. This is where it leads: Why is the American nation so inert in the face of onrushing calamity? The signs, after all, are there for all to see; in...
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Peter Hitchens has given up, on immigration (as well as everything else): Once [illegal immigrants are] in, our own treasured freedoms work against us. Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we...
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'They have managed to form a gvnt that defied the global finance system, & to do so with flair' http://t.co/MXYcPrUZwg this will end well! — Ed West (@edwest) June 30, 2015
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Fernandez invests far too much confidence in conservatives, as usual, but this is still thought-provoking: If the world that conservative Americans once cherished has diminished; it has not been as...
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Very crudely re-stated, Moldbug’s Cathedral concept says that whatever is happening in the universities is an authoritative rough draft of what society more generally has coming to it. Politics is...
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Soon
What would a full stocks correction look like? A true understanding of stock market history shows that Wall Street in the past has moved in long, long swings upwards and downwards, often taking years...
View ArticleMeanwhile, in Venezuela …
A mineral-rich socialist diet: The governor of the Venezuelan state of Bolívar has some advice for dealing with the widespread shortage of food across the country. Can’t find eggs at your local...
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Fernandez takes a clear-eyed look at where things are actually heading right now: Conventional wisdom has had a pretty bad run these last 15 years. For that reason there is little purpose to trusting...
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Internally sourced (replying to this): Mercantilism *is* quite poor. It’s a system of tarifs, subsidies, protections and monopoly grants which is what we already have today (the only difference being...
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Sentences (#29)
Charles Hugh Smith: The net result of the Ratchet Effect and the impossibility of reform is this: it’s cheaper and more effective to let the system collapse than squander time and treasure attempting...
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An excuse to link this, by Niall Ferguson, because the next Chaos Patch is almost a week away: I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I am not going to say that what happened in...
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