Friday, June 6, 2025

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

So Many Links!...from mushrooms to why China beats the US, why Trump won, and economics.

 

From Ian Welsh:

When Financiers Win, They Lose  

The Best Short Summary Of Why China Is Winning & The West Fading (must read!)

China's Rare Earths Ban Starts Shutting Down Auto Production (see the comments, too!) 

Classics:

The Yoga Perspective

From The Road Less Traveled: Life is difficult.

Why Trump Won

Why on earth would anyone vote for Donald Trump? (RE: 2016, still relevant)

Sarah Chayes' On Corruption in America, and what is at stake. 

If 

Economics:

Milton Friedman, Inflation Deceiver 

One recent epiphany about the horror that is modern economics: When Karl Marx became arguably the most influential economist in history, the plutocrats panicked and started commissioning alternative narratives...that are positively delusional.

An illustration / joke: When the firefighters put out the fire at your house, that's socialism. When the insurance company denies your claim, that's capitalism. 

 

 

The "Interest Trap" is an illusion

 From this Ellen Brown piece :  As Thomas Edison observed in a New York Times interview in 1921: "If our nation can issue a dollar bon...