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Why Shortages Are Permanent: Global Supply Shortages Make Fantastic Financial Sense
Why Shortages Are Permanent: Global Supply Shortages Make Fantastic Financial Sense The era of abundance was only a short-lived artifact of the initial boost phase of globalization and financialization. Global corporations didn’t go to all the effort to establish quasi-monopolies and cartels for our convenience–they did it to ensure reliably large profits from control and […]
Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths: the Post-Petroleum Resource Race
Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths: the Post-Petroleum Resource Race Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal will vanish. Indeed, the Biden administration has announced a breakthrough target of 2035 for fully eliminating U.S. reliance […]
Mainstream Journalism Doesn’t Exist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Mainstream Journalism Doesn’t Exist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Journalists should be exposing inconvenient truths about powerful people in their own nation and its allies. Instead the people we call “journalists” criticize enemy nations, smear political dissidents, demand increasing amounts of censorship, and advance narratives that are convenient for the powerful. ❖ […]
Localization: a strategic alternative to globalized authoritarianism
Localization: a strategic alternative to globalized authoritarianism For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? […]
What the P2P Foundation is about: shifting from Generative Adversarial Networks to Generative Cooperative Networks
What the P2P Foundation is about: shifting from Generative Adversarial Networks to Generative Cooperative Networks What are we really trying to do at the P2P Foundation, along with many other similar movements ? One of the best ways to express our underlying philosophy is here very well expressed by John Ringland, who, using complexity theory […]
Central Banks: From Coordination to Competition
Central Banks: From Coordination to Competition This is one reason why I anticipate “unexpected” disruptions in the global economy in 2018. The mere mention of “central banks” will likely turn off many readers who understandably have little interest in convoluted policies and arcane mumbo-jumbo, but bear with me for a few paragraphs while I make […]
It’s Time to Retire “Capitalism”
It’s Time to Retire “Capitalism” Our current socio-economic system is nothing but the application of force on the many to enforce the skims, scams and privileges of the self-serving few. I’ve placed the word capitalism in quotation marks to reflect the reality that this word now covers a wide spectrum of economic activities, very little […]
Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition
Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition We should take our deregulation where we can get it. At long last, with the end of “net neutrality,” competition could soon come to the industry that delivers Internet services to you. You might be able to pick among a range of packages, some minimalist and some maximalist, depending […]
Cooperation Versus Competition: An Evolutionary Perspective
COOPERATION VERSUS COMPETITION: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Charles Darwin is credited for forming the idea of evolution. During his explorations around the world and his intimate observation of how animal and plant life evolved over time, he came to believe that everything followed one basic maxim: “the survival of the fittest.” This theory states that organisms […]
The Local Economy Solution
The Local Economy Solution Chelsea Green Publishing Serving as mayor provides one with an array of opportunities to demean oneself on a regular basis—funny hats and dunk tanks tend to be involved. However, for me, and for most of the mayors I know, the lowest moments occur in the grandest corporate offices during economic development […]
The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade
The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems. You will hear […]
Alternatives to Capitalism
Alternatives to Capitalism It is said that capitalism believes in competition but hates competitors. With this thoughtful book, Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright aim to strengthen the resources of anti-capitalist politics against the charge that ‘there is no alternative’. While there is a debate on the left over the value of engaging in utopian […]
The Regulatory State – Central Planning and Bureaucracy on a Rampage
The Regulatory State – Central Planning and Bureaucracy on a Rampage The New 10,000 Commandments Report – It’s Worse than Ever Before we begin, we should mention that the US economy has long been one of the least regulated among the major regulatory States of the so-called “free” world, and to a large extent this […]
A Mountain of Debt and no Growth
A Mountain of Debt and no Growth Too Many Geezers So far, we’ve proposed two reasons why the 21st century has been such a dud … First … the developed nations are cursed with too many geezers. We have nothing against old people (especially as we hope to be one ourselves all too soon). But […]
The Meaning of Your Life is Other People – The Automatic Earth
The Meaning of Your Life is Other People – The Automatic Earth. In his 1944 play Huis Clos (loosely yet officially translated as No Exit, or Closed Door), French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said: “L’enfer, c’est les autres.” Or: Hell is (the) other people. Which can be very true. And Sartre makes his point in a […]
