Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Despite Last Week’s Nationwide Blackout, Spanish Government Takes Criminalisation of Cash to Whole New Level
Taking money out of the bank becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare. Anyone looking to withdraw more than $3,000 of their own money must notify the State in advance as well as explain the reason(s) why, or face fines.
Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
The likely outcome of Trump policies are a recession, a rise in inequality, and a further fall in living standards of working and middle-class Americans
At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead
More proof at Social Security of the damage done by letting DOGE run wild.
Coffee Break: Across the Pond, Tyrants Edition
The leaders of the three largest countries in Western Europe (excluding Russia) are acting like tyrants as their economies implode.
Trump’s Neverending Tariffs War? Proposes 100% Tariffs on Foreign Movies; De Minimus Exclusion Ends, Hurting the Poor; Financial Times on Tariff Evasion, Official and Via Trans-Shipment
A battlefield update on Trump’s tariff wars.
The EU Zombie Uses Trump as Cover to Further Feed on Citizens
Ursula and company are inching towards using emergency powers for first installment of 900 billion ‘rearmament’ because Trump.
How the State Sent Californians’ Personal Health Data to LinkedIn
The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.
Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Humanitarian military intervention sounds like an oxymoron and often winds up being one. Nevertheless, there are rules of engagement.
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) Run Time 1h 20m
The Sunday Morning Movie presents The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) A wonderful little movie about an intelligent robot and its very human relationships.
Underage Workers, Millions of Dollars and Trucks Full of Dead Chickens — Inside the Business of Killing in Response to Bird Flu
The federal government has a single contractor to assist with killing infected flocks, leading to delays and the use of controversial culling methods.
The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
