Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change?
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tackle climate change? The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant yet for sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but questions remain about whether the technology can scale up. Humanity has spent the past few centuries […]
How Europe and Britain are getting ready for ‘WWIII’: Interactive graphic reveals how West will stop Putin unleashing Armageddon, with nukes at Russia’s doorstep, mass conscription at 18 and arms factories firing up
How Europe and Britain are getting ready for ‘WWIII’: Interactive graphic reveals how West will stop Putin unleashing Armageddon, with nukes at Russia’s doorstep, mass conscription at 18 and arms factories firing up More than two years into the Ukraine war, Vladimir Putin has doubled down UK and European allies are steeling their economies and […]
JFK, MLK, RFK: Three Murders Most Foul That Killed America’s Soul
JFK, MLK, RFK: Three Murders Most Foul That Killed America’s Soul As increasing numbers of people in the USA, also in the entire world, agonize over the never-ending, highly destructive wars of the USA, they also seek to trace the roots of where exactly things went so wrong and the US polity drifted towards its […]
I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This
I’ve Got A Bad Feeling About This Ideally, I would have written this on May 4th not 14th, but I am going to talk Star Wars. I was a fan in 1977, kept the flame alive when only battered VHS cassettes of the original trilogy existed, and was delighted to get prequels. Until the opening […]
New Schiff Interview: All Inflation Has One Source
New Schiff Interview: All Inflation Has One Source On Wednesday, Peter appeared on This Week in Mining with Jay Martin. Jay and Peter discuss the state of the economy, the government’s assault on sound money, and why the mining sector constitutes a good investment. Early on in the interview, Peter lays out the dilemma the […]
Brazil authorities warn of more floods, landslides as new rains hit south
Brazil authorities warn of more floods, landslides as new rains hit south Nearly 140 people have been killed so far Katiane Mello (R) leaves her flooded home in a boat navigating a street in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Photo: AFP New rains in waterlogged southern Brazil are expected to be […]
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis Climate change, resource depletion, extreme weapons, AI, and more: Richard Heinberg looks at the individual threats composing the unprecedented convergence of risk leading us to a global polycrisis. Though he finds no easy answers, he concludes that humanity’s collective survival will require setting aside our hubris and coming to terms […]
Money’s Grim Future
Money’s Grim Future Prepare for total control of your economic life. That is the message from Brownstone Fellow Aaron Day at his 4-hour workshop in San Jose, California last Saturday, May 11th. Day has written the excellent book The Final Countdown, which carefully describes the increasingly aggressive assaults on our freedoms by our government and by the global elites. […]
Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again on Inflation
Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again on Inflation This week on the Peter Schiff Show, Peter covers a week of dismal economic reports. Both jobless claims and consumer sentiment came in worse than expected last week, with both figures missing predictions by a wide margin. Peter also discusses public statements made by both Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the […]
Walking Away From The Marketplace
Walking Away From The Marketplace The recent sequence of posts here on lenocracy (from Latin leno, a pimp)—that is, the form of political economy in which productive economic activity gets squeezed dry by various kinds of legally mandated pimping—has fielded a response I find interesting. Next to nobody has tried to argue that lenocracy is […]
‘Extreme’ solar storm impacts NZ, power grid emergency declared
‘Extreme’ solar storm impacts NZ, power grid emergency declared NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare in extreme ultraviolet light on May 2. (Source: NASA) Transpower has issued a precautionary grid emergency notice as the largest solar storm in two decades to affect Earth hits New Zealand this weekend. Sixteen electricity […]
The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water
The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water The commonwealth is home to the data center capital of the world. Can it handle AI’s thirst? Google Every email you send has a home. Every uploaded file, web search, and social media post does, too. In massive buildings erected from miles of concrete, stacked servers […]
The Warrantless Surveillance Bill Renewal Is Even Broader Than Many Noticed
The Warrantless Surveillance Bill Renewal Is Even Broader Than Many Noticed The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, amended in 2008), as a whole and its Section 702 in particular have been a “gift that keeps on giving” where all manner of controversies are concerned. In late April, it was time to once again reauthorize this legislation whose […]
CPI Up 0.3 Percent With Rent Still Rising Steeply, Food a Bright Spot
CPI Up 0.3 Percent With Rent Still Rising Steeply, Food a Bright Spot Rent rose another 0.4 percent in April. Food and beverages were flat with food at home declining but food away from home rising. CPI data from the BLS, chart by Mish Bloomberg Econoday economists were correct across the board on the April CPI […]
Links of the Month: May 2024
Links of the Month: May 2024 Public Service Announcement: If reading my links of the month is unbearably depressing for you, just skip down to the very bottom of this post and at least read Lyz Lenz’s little story on Mothering. Everything else here will probably be the same next month, anyway. cartoon by Michael Leunig No, […]
