The Curious Engineer

Ian Welsh

2023–2026

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October 2026

  1. Lambert Strether’s New Blog
  2. US Spends Way More On R&D Than China
  3. Don’t Talk Human Welfare With Elites, Talk Money (Hospital Edition)
  4. Lula Wins In Brazil, His Opponent Has His Passport Seized
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 25, 2026
  6. Information Overlord: Skydance + Musk, Egypt + Saudi Arabia
  7. The Danger Of Cynicism
  8. There Aren’t Actually A Lot Of Places For Billionaires To Run
  9. The World Continues To Seek Alternatives To American Tech
  10. Widespread Riots & Protests In Europe & India
  11. 2026 Annual Fundraiser
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 18, 2026
  13. Information Overlord: West Asia War Overwhelms Political and Business Coverage
  14. Open Thread
  15. The Death Of Democracy
  16. A Billionaire Has A Psychotic Religious Break With Reality
  17. Texas Senate Race Features Fictions About Talarico vs. Plentiful Paxton Scandals
  18. The Endgame of Surveillance And Autonomous Robots Approaches
  19. Hypocrisy, Ansar-Allah, and the Military Revolution
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 11, 2026
  21. Open Thread
  22. Information Overlord: It’s Ari Emanuel’s World and We Just Watch Skydance In It
  23. Buy, Borrow, Die—Another Way the Rich Avoid Taxes
  24. Saudi Arabia Has Truly F**cked Around & Is About To Find Out
  25. Jasmine Crockett and the Dick Cheney Wing of the Dem Party Have All Got to Go
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 04, 2026
  27. Open Thread
  28. Information Overlord: Busy Week on the Iran War Beat, Covering Kash Patel and Let It Rolling
  29. America Continues To Destroy Its International Markets

September 2026

  1. Joe Biden’s Three Genocides in Four Years: Ukraine Part 4
  2. The Potential AI Lockdown Of Knowledge
  3. Joy In Twilight
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 28, 2026
  5. Open Thread
  6. The Psychology Of Elite Depravity
  7. Conditions for Revolutionary Change In The West: Fiscal
  8. Joe Biden’s Three Genocides in Four Years: Ukraine Part 3
  9. Preparing For Bad Times, Trumpocalypse Edition
  10. By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Yemen and Obama & Trump’s America, Too
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 20, 2026
  12. Open Thread
  13. Information Overlord: AI Doomers Up to No Good, House of Saud or House of Cards?
  14. Doom, As Predicted
  15. Joe Biden’s Three Genocides in Four Years: Ukraine Part 2
  16. The Structural Incentives Of Western Capitalism Make Competing With China Impossible
  17. Defending Most Infrastructure Is Now Impossible But No One’s Getting It
  18. Open Thread
  19. Information Overlord: Houthis Roll, Hegseth Bumbles, AI Doomer Hype, Lots of Music Talk
  20. Ansar-Allah’s Blitz Likely To Reduce Saudi Oil Exports To Near Zero
  21. The Iran War Has Just Had A Major Phase Change
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 13, 2026
  23. Joe Biden’s Three Genocides in Four Years: Ukraine, Part 1
  24. Different Times And Places Are Different
  25. Open Thread
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 06, 2026
  27. Information Overlord: Dmitry Orlov Changes His Hypothesis for US Collapse
  28. Lack of Fear of Death
  29. Joe Biden’s Three Genocides in Four Years, Part 1: COVID
  30. Tit for Tat US/Iranian Strikes Resume

August 2026

  1. So Tired Of All The Lying
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 30, 2026
  3. Once Again Orientals/Chinese/Whoever Are Not Innately Superior People
  4. Mid-Week Open Thread
  5. If You Want Companies To Behave Well You Have To Punish Decision Makers
  6. Canada Refuses Last Minute Trade Demands From Trump And Ends Talks
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 23, 2026
  8. Open Thread
  9. Another Word On Treasury Bonds
  10. Another Big Profit Opportunity For Elites Is On The Way (Bonds/Carry Trade)
  11. The New Cold War Intensifies
  12. Iran Has Settled In For The Long Haul As Hardliners Take Control
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 16, 2026
  14. Open Thread
  15. How I Learned About Leaders & Human Nature
  16. Yes, There Is Reason To Believe Humans Can Do Better
  17. The Fundamental Political Question Of Production & Distribution
  18. Maybe Early AI Adoption Is Stupid?
  19. Defund The Police and Abolish Prisons?
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 09, 2026
  21. Open Thread
  22. The Continued Abandonment Of America’s Poor
  23. Understand China’s Plan To Become A Full Socialist State
  24. America Almost Out Of Long Range Strike Munitions
  25. Facts On the Ground In Ukraine
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 02, 2026
  27. Open Thread
  28. SpaceX’s Rug Pull Is Making Me Laugh

July 2026

  1. Just Let the Peons Die, The Rich Must Get Richer, French Edition
  2. Capacity v.s. Desire: What I Got Right & Wrong At The Start of the Gaza Genocide
  3. Burning Down The Great Library Yet Again
  4. We Live In Epochal Times
  5. “Nothing Ever Happens”
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 26, 2026
  7. Open Thread
  8. Oilpocalypse Incoming
  9. Nothing Can Be Done When People Believe Lies
  10. BLS Alters How It Counts Core PCE Inflation – Guess What Changed?
  11. America’s Losing the AI Race Hard
  12. America Doesn’t Have Enough Missiles To Fight Iran
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 19, 2026
  14. Open Thread
  15. Xi Lays Out His Principles for AI Development
  16. Manipulating Numbers Rather Than Logistics (Oil Version)
  17. Our Carefully Designed Hell Society
  18. Everyone Misses Second Largest Drive Of Core Inflation—Memory Chips
  19. Rahm Emanuel Turning On Israel Is Good
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 12, 2026
  21. The Oligarchy Moves on Platner’s Voters, Donors and Consultants
  22. Open Thread
  23. The Old Gray Lady Runs RussiaGate 2: They’re Coming for OpenAI
  24. Another Decent Summary Of The Ukraine War
  25. Platner Folds
  26. America Attacks Iran & Declares The Truce Over
  27. Unintended Consequences: Germany Sick Leave Edition
  28. Most US Jobs Won’t Support An American Lifestyle
  29. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 05, 2026
  30. Open Thread
  31. The Surveillance Society Is Here Courtesy Of Private Enterprise
  32. The Basic Elements of Meditation: Meditation As Exercise
  33. Management Theory (MBAs) Are Two Thirds About Non-Competition

June 2026

  1. How Many Poor People Could Elon’s Trillion Lift Out Of Poverty?
  2. Russia War Situation & A Possible EU/Russia War
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 28, 2026
  4. Open Thread
  5. Brief Iran Update
  6. The Only Thing That Matters Is Winning Primaries
  7. Can Europe Win A War With Russia?
  8. Freedom And Power (Freedom Series #4)
  9. The Great Thing About Britain’s Labour Party Is… Nothing
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 21, 2026
  11. Open Thread
  12. Israel’s Support Is Eroding In the US
  13. Vance Is Trying To Thread That Vice Presidential Needle
  14. Text of the Iran/US MOU
  15. Microsoft To Offer Deepseek Based AI Copilot
  16. The Cruelty Is the Point: American Execution Edition
  17. Nothing Is Wrong With Transhumanism In Theory
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 14, 2026
  19. Open Thread
  20. Possible New Iran Deal?
  21. No Eyesight, No Blogging
  22. And the Iran War is back ON!
  23. AI: Make Them Stupid, Then Sell Them Brains
  24. What the Wounds Are Telling Us
  25. Iran HIts Israel Over Lebanese Attacks
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 07, 2026
  27. Open Thread
  28. Establishment Attacks On Platner Are Classic Woke Attacks On The Populist Left
  29. Character and Destiny
  30. Why Do So Many Right Wing Parties Worship America
  31. Americans Today Have Little To Be Proud Of

May 2026

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 31, 2026
  2. Open Thread
  3. Closer to the End of Credit Cycle Phase Two
  4. In Defence of Le Mot Juste
  5. Western AI Investors Are the Dumbest Money In The World
  6. Don’t Believe Weekend “Peace Deal” Leaks
  7. Freedom To, Freedom From & Capitalism (Freedom Series #3)
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 24, 2026
  9. Open Thread
  10. The Year of Chaos: 2027
  11. Freedom Under Representative Democracy (Freedom Series #2)
  12. Are We Free Under Capitalism? (Freedom Series #1)
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 17, 2026
  14. Open Thread
  15. The Haters Guide To Post-Modernism
  16. It Doesn’t Matter What Europe’s GDP Is
  17. The Oreshnik
  18. Is It Better To Be Raped Or Be A Rapist?
  19. The Star of David Is Getting the Swastika Treatment
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 10, 2026
  21. Open Thread
  22. The Law Of Elite Consequences Continues To Demolish America
  23. Iran Has Broken The US Middle East Raj
  24. American Elites Have Reverse Empire Dysmorphia
  25. America Exports Record 6.4 Million Barrels of Crude
  26. Is A Famine Baked In For 2027?
  27. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 03, 2026
  28. Open Thread

April 2026

  1. We Don’t Need Chinese Exceptionalism
  2. Can Trump’s “Blockade of the Blockade” Force Iran To Submit?
  3. Distributing Resources Based On Jobs Is Outdated And Stupid
  4. The Abuse of Language By Media and Government
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 26, 2026
  6. Open Thread
  7. The Extension of the Iran War Truce Works To Iran’s Benefit
  8. Iran For Dummies
  9. Losing Patience With Moral & Intellectual Morons
  10. Germany Wants to Double Down on Failed Policies
  11. Russo-Ukraine War: Strategic Pause
  12. Did Gen. Caine Defy A Presidential Order Saturday Night and Deny Trump the Nuclear Codes?
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 19, 2026
  14. Open Thread
  15. Brief Strait Of Hormuz Update
  16. China Thinks Ahead To Reduce Its Reliance On Petroleum
  17. Acknowledging the Human In Each Other
  18. Ramadan War Could Be Decided by a Sunni Coalition
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 12, 2026
  20. Ceasefire Talks In Pakistan Fail
  21. Open Thread
  22. American Profits Are One Of The Causes of American Decline
  23. The Twin Pillars of the Interregnum of Unreality Are Under Stress
  24. Twenty-One Simple Facts About the Iranian War
  25. Trump Really Messes Up Smart People
  26. Monday Morning Econ Blues
  27. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 05, 2026
  28. Open Thread
  29. The Illusion of a Revolutionary Moment
  30. How To Read More
  31. When Does Money Matter?

March 2026

  1. You Better Start Swimming, Because Drowning Is Bad For Your Health
  2. It’s Time For Iraq To Free Itself And Get Revenge For the Gulf and Iraq Wars
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 29, 2026
  4. Open Thread
  5. Getting Real About The Second Iranian War
  6. Risk and Reward As Perceived in American Strategic Culture
  7. Starfleet Academy’s Gay Klingon Could’ve Been Epic
  8. What Phase Three of the Credit Cycle Looks Like: the Ponzi Scheme Visualized
  9. Pro Iran War Propaganda Videos
  10. Shockwaves From The Second Iranian American War
  11. On the Necessity of Facing Nuclear Reality, Even When a Child
  12. America’s Economic Future: Imminent Pain and Dislocation Not Seen Since the ’30s
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 22, 2026
  14. Open Thread
  15. This Is The End Of The American Empire. Period.
  16. Israel, Nukes and Armageddon For Real
  17. The Credit Cycle: Phase Two Accelerating
  18. Donald Trump and the Apotheosis of Chimpanzee Politics
  19. Personal Consequences Of The Iran War
  20. In Memoriam: John Timothy Ater April 10, 1953-January 20, 2026
  21. Mass Disabling Continues
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2026
  23. Open Thread
  24. Drones Are Weapons Of The Weak #3: The Americas
  25. Iran Is Winning & It’s Not Close
  26. Every Credit Cycle Is Different, Just Like This One
  27. America & Israel Don’t Get To Choose When The War Ends
  28. ​​​​​​​Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 08, 2026
  29. Open Thread
  30. Saturday Morning Grab Bag Of Baddies and Goodies
  31. Iran Is Revealing The American Empire’s End
  32. Prepare to Pay for the Despicable Cowardice of Pete Hegseth and Our Loathsome Masters
  33. AI & New Social Media Rules Are Strangling Independent Sites
  34. Khamenei Is Responsible For Every Single Iranian Death
  35. There Is Stupid and Then There Is Superhuman Stupid
  36. The Doom Spiral Of Executive Decision Making
  37. Short Take on Iran, Russia and the Ukraine: Cui Bono?
  38. Commentary On The Iran War, March 2, 2026
  39. ​​​​​​​Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 01, 2026
  40. The Simple Math Of the Iran War

February 2026

  1. The Second Iran War Is On
  2. Open Thread
  3. Friday Morning Highlights and Lowlifes
  4. Western Elites Are Making A Play For Eternal Oligarchy
  5. Is Virtue An Advantage Or Disadvantage For Societies?
  6. The Weirdness Of Getting Old
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 22, 2026
  8. Open Thread
  9. Genocide & Brown Shirts Are Being Normalized
  10. Short Take On Possible/Probable War On Iran
  11. A Story of Iran from 2006 That Deserves To Be Retold
  12. I Miss the Lies of the 1990s but I Don’t Want to Go Back
  13. Pre-Internet Journalism Was Optimized For Information Transfer Efficiency, Post-Internet For Inefficiency
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 15, 2026
  15. Short Take: Modern Infrastucture Miracles
  16. Following Up My Silver Post By Answering A Damn Good Comment
  17. Open Thread
  18. Trump’s Religious Liberties Commission Implodes Over Zionism
  19. Silver: East Versus West
  20. The China Super Boosters Are Super Tiresome
  21. How Dependent Is Canada On The US?
  22. America Psychopathy Continues To Stun (Cuba Edition)
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 08, 2026
  24. Silver Short Take
  25. Open Thread
  26. Are The Boomers To Blame For America’s Decline?
  27. How Boeing Made Record Profits And Burned Down The Company
  28. The Amount Of Contempt Elites Have For Public Intelligence Is Breathtaking
  29. American and Chinese Elites Both Achieved Their Goals
  30. Epstein Occupied A Structural Position, So Who Has Replaced Him?
  31. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 01, 2026

January 2026

  1. A Word On Elite Pedophilia
  2. Open Thread
  3. The Wisdom Of Machiavellian Virtu & Why America Is Losing Its Bill of Rights & Constitutional Virtues
  4. The Right Thing to Do: Homeless edition
  5. America’s Leaders In Waiting Have Identified Themselves
  6. Just How High Can Silver Really Go?
  7. How To Drive Domestic Production and Reindustrialization
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 25, 2026
  9. A Message To Commenters
  10. Open Thread
  11. There Is Only One Fast Route Back After Trump
  12. Understanding the Competent Concierge: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney
  13. Carney’s Speech Transcript + Comments: Time For the Truth & For the Middle Powers To Align
  14. European Leaders Realize They’ve Put Themselves In A Vise
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 18, 2026
  16. Open Thread
  17. Canadian LapDog Breaks For Exit After Trump Declares Dog Is On The Menu
  18. Just How Heritable Is IQ
  19. The Black Book Of Capitalism: Sanctions Version
  20. Preparing for Bad Times Thread
  21. Trump’s Attack On Defense Contractors & The Fed
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 11, 2026
  23. Open Thread
  24. Iran Can’t Afford To Keep Fucking Up
  25. Eyes On The Big Picture: Dollar Decline & The Great Forgetting
  26. Understanding America’s Plan and Venezuela’s Possible Submission
  27. How To Defeat The US Militarily As A Weaker Power
  28. Keep Your Eyes On The Long Game of Imperial Collapse
  29. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 04, 2026
  30. Maduro Kidnapped
  31. Open Thread
  32. The Accelerating Nature Of Financialization Collapse

2025 373

December 2025

  1. 2025 Is The Year The US Empire Acknowledged The End of Hegemony
  2. American Sanctions Are Now Benefiting Countries
  3. Can You Just Out-Breed Your Domestic Enemies?
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 28, 2025
  5. Open Thread
  6. Merry Christmas
  7. What Constitutes A Successful Life?
  8. Western Leadership Is The Most Worthless In My Life
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 21, 2025
  10. Open Thread
  11. We Don’t Have To Live In Hell
  12. Revisiting The Ivy League “Super Conformer” Thesis
  13. Higher US Profits Are WHY The US Can’t Compete (American won’t re-industrialize)
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 14, 2025
  15. Open Thread
  16. The Rules Of Good Easy Writing
  17. Government As Helper vs. Government As Regulator
  18. 2028: Red and Blue Vs. Tech?
  19. The Loss Of American Dollar Privilege Is The Second Most Important Factor In US Decline
  20. If You’re An Email Or Feed Subscriber Read This
  21. American Will Try To Maintain The Monroe Doctrine. Can It?
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 07, 2025
  23. Open Thread
  24. Server Migration and Comments
  25. Too Big To Fail Fails In China
  26. The Four Steps Guide To Learning
  27. Possible Site Down Time
  28. Britain To Restrict Jury Trials, Ending Jury Nullification For Political Crimes
  29. The Financialization Hoover Effect & The End Of The American Dream

November 2025

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 30, 2025
  2. Open Thread
  3. The Killing Of Two National Guardsmen In DC
  4. Trade Is Not The Primary Driver of Currency Rates
  5. Are Multiple Russian Breakthroughs Imminent?
  6. By The People? For the People?
  7. Long Covid Disabling Continues
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 23, 2025
  9. Open Thread
  10. Larry Summers Being Awful Has Little to Do With Jeffrey Epstein
  11. America Is Ruled By Reddit Trolls
  12. The Promise Of Automation and Abundance
  13. Is China Going To Win The Humanoid Robot Race & End Capitalism As We Know It?
  14. Short Take on What I’d Be Doing To Prepare for the Pending Economic S**t-show
  15. Some Thoughts on Epstein’s Non-moral Virtues
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 16, 2025
  17. Open Thread
  18. Your Late Friday–ermmm, Early Saturday–Dose of Crap Economic News
  19. American “AI” Is a “No Win” for Society
  20. Trump Has Achieved Biden Levels of Delusion and Denial
  21. On the Necessity of Bearing Witness
  22. It’s Difficult to Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is in the US
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 09, 2025
  24. The Evolution of Richard Bruce Cheney’s Foreign Policy Ideology
  25. Open Thread
  26. Did Burry, Altman, Friar, Huang, Karp and Sacks Just Pop the AI Bubble?
  27. Pokrovsk Has Fallen, Now What?
  28. Mamdani Represents A New Era Of Political Conflict
  29. Two Quick Hits
  30. On the Public Abuse of Our Historical Ignorance
  31. The State Of Play In Late 2025
  32. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 02, 2025
  33. Open Thread

October 2025

  1. The New Cold War Is Taking Form
  2. Yes, Canadians Did—Did Think America Was A Friend & Yes, Trump Is Good For Canada
  3. Development Politics in Central and South America
  4. Apologies For The Non-Existent Posting
  5. Near The End of Our Fundraiser, About $2,200 to go
  6. Are We A Week Away From An American Invasion of Venezuela?
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 26, 2025
  8. Open Thread
  9. Massive Cuts Incoming At NASA As America Just Gives Up
  10. Palestine’s Last Hope
  11. Harvard Slashes Ph.D. Admissions
  12. The Personal Politics of Hopelessness
  13. Has China Put America Into the pre-WWII “Japan Trap?”
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 19, 2025
  15. Open Thread
  16. China Seizes The Master’s Weapon As It Makes Itself The New Hegemon
  17. Opposition to the Trump Takeover of Chicago
  18. There’s A Reason I Say “Climate Change and Environmental Collapse”
  19. EU Leaders Determined To Win “Most Supine Slave Award”: Nexperia Edition
  20. Revisiting Original Sin and Identity Politics In the Age of Woke Backlash
  21. The West Cannot Win A Trade War Against China
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 12, 2025
  23. The Tiny Dictate to the Large
  24. Is Trump Going To Purge Democrats, Seize Power and Rewrite the Constitution?
  25. Open Thread
  26. China Is Going To Leave The US What America Left Britain: Nothing
  27. I’m Told Black Folks Are Lying Low in the Face of Stephen Miller’s Crackdown
  28. Russo-Ukraine War Update
  29. I’d Like To Be Optimistic About the Latest Gaza Peace Plan
  30. Is Good Or Evil More Effective? The Case of America and China.
  31. Is It More Fun To Be Evil Than Good?
  32. Israeli Actions Encourage the Formation of the Coalition That Will Ultimately Defeat It
  33. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 05, 2025
  34. The GENIUS Act is Anything But
  35. Open Thread
  36. David Petraeus’ Disgusting Dialogue With Syria’s al-Julani
  37. Hegseth’s Speech and Fitness Standards For Soldiers
  38. The Next Big Crash Is On Its Way

September 2025

  1. If You Use A VPN, You May Need To Turn It Off To Subscribe or Donate
  2. The Mainstreaming of Nick Fuentes
  3. 2025 Fundraiser
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 28, 2025
  5. Chinese Companies Compete For Market Share & That’s Why Starbucks Is Toast
  6. Open Thread
  7. “How Can You Not Be Romantic About Baseball?”
  8. London & New York Are Toast
  9. Words From the Right: Some Surprising Restraint, Some Shocking Horror
  10. Why Trump’s 100K H-1B Visa Fee Won’t Work & How To Make It Work
  11. First Time Ever: Himalayas Breached By Monsoons
  12. Is Trump Taking Ownership Stakes In Companies Bad?
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 21, 2025
  14. Open Thread
  15. Late Nite of the Long Knives for Liberals
  16. Bad Faith and Criminality
  17. American Billionaires Are Competing To Be King Shit of Turd Island
  18. Unconditional Surrender Grant
  19. Care To Tell Me What Is Wrong With This Headline?
  20. Interregnum of Unreality 2008-???
  21. Euro Proposal For A No Fly Zone in the Ukraine: the Consequences
  22. Four Randon Econonic, Political, Geopolitical and Scientific Musings
  23. Come and See: A Belarussian and Russian Film On The Partisan War In 1943
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 14, 2025
  25. Open Thread
  26. A Mercifully Brief History of Mathematics
  27. The Solution to The USA’s Taiwan Dilemma
  28. Should You Kill or Mourn Nazis and Commies? (Charlie Kirk Edition)
  29. A Brief Taxonomy Of Corruption
  30. Follow Up and And Reply On My “How to Lose Allies” Post
  31. The West Is In A Far Worse Position than the Warsaw Pact Was At The Start Of the Cold War
  32. How To Lose Allies and Create Enemies
  33. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 07, 2025
  34. Positive Prejudice
  35. What Is Post-Modern Thought?
  36. Nominal GDP or Purchasing Power Parity
  37. Get Ready For the Return of Serious Disease
  38. Follow Up On My China Post
  39. “AI” Insanity. Does This Industry Make Sense?
  40. Short Addendum To Ian’s Post On the Effectiveness of the Chinese Government
  41. If You Understand Only One Thing About Chinese Government
  42. Looking To Healthy Cultures (Review of “One Disease, One Cure” by Whip Randolph)

August 2025

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 31, 2025
  2. Open Thread
  3. Is Consciousness Reality’s Organizing Principle? (Beyond Biocentrism, by Lanza and Berman)
  4. Trump Is Running the Standard Purge and Control Playbook To Install Decline
  5. Trump Takes Share Of US Company Profits & Pentagon Guarantees Rare Earth Prices
  6. Yeah, America’s Gone Fascist
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 24, 2025
  8. Open Thread
  9. What Is Society For & What Makes A Society Good? (Laws of Heaven)
  10. China is a Rich Society. No Western Country Is.
  11. Trump’s Budget & The NATO 5% Of GDP Requirement Have The Same Effect
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 17, 2025
  13. Open Thread
  14. Politicians V.S. Serial Killers: Introducing The Serial Killer Count
  15. The Nuremberg Movement
  16. How Leadership Worked In the Early & Middle Roman Republic
  17. Do The Same Sorts Of People Lead All Societies?
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 10, 2025
  19. Open Thread
  20. Autarky Sure Looks Good
  21. Why China’s Big On Open Source
  22. Why China Is Going To Win The AI Race
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 03, 2025
  24. Open Thread
  25. Don’t Make Buddies With The Christian Right

July 2025

  1. Oddly, Canada Has More Leverage In A Trade Deal Than Anyone Except Maybe China
  2. Yes, Human Population Needs To Be Lower, Not All Ways Of Doing That Aren’t Good
  3. Real Time Iraq War Death Estimates Were Wildly Off
  4. Europe Affirms Its Vassalage In Trade Deal With the US
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 27, 2025
  6. Open Thread
  7. Uber’s Finally Profitable & Workers and Customers Will Pay Back Its Losses Fast
  8. Ending Resource Separatism in Alberta and Canada
  9. CPI Isn’t: Health Insurance Cost Index
  10. The Serious Starvation Deaths Are About To Begin In Gaza
  11. AI May Be The End Of Serious Human Advancement
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 20, 2025
  13. Open Thread
  14. The Actual Mission Of Business Is Why We Can’t Have Good Things
  15. AI Is A Fever Dream of Despots
  16. Elite Opinion In Canada Begins To Shift From America To China
  17. A Brief Note About Getting Posts By Email
  18. Imperial Presidency Watch: Congress Loses Control Over The Purse
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 13, 2025
  20. Open Thread
  21. I Mean, It Is Theoretically Possible That Epstein Committed Suicide
  22. The US-UK Special Relationship is Officially Dead
  23. Equal Tests For Men and Women in Front Line Combat Roles: Progress or Regression?
  24. Trump’s Absolutely Crazed Tariff Policies: Brazil and Copper Edition
  25. Trump’s Admin Claims the Epstein Files Don’t Exist, Why?
  26. The End Of Cash & The Rise Of The Non-Person
  27. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 06, 2025
  28. Open Thread
  29. A Few Words On The “Big Beautiful Bill”
  30. Why Does The CCP Accomplish Goals Meant To Better China’s People?
  31. Prices of Both Housing And Rent Are Decreasing In China
  32. Verdun Then and Now
  33. Doomed Tesla (RoboTaxi Edition)
  34. The Changing Interpretations of Gobekli Tepe
  35. Russo-Ukraine War Update June 30, 2025

June 2025

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 29, 2025
  2. Sean-Paul Kelley
  3. Open Thread
  4. Reducing Suffering
  5. The Term Toxic Masculinity Is Nothing But a Gratuitous Insult to Men
  6. The War in Ukraine Enters A New Phase
  7. Does Zohran Mamdani Matter?
  8. Losing Our Asian Allies – And Fast
  9. The Middle East Is Hastening Ukraine’s Fall & The End of the European Era
  10. Iran Screws Up & Gaza Death Toll
  11. A Deluge of Metanarrative Bullshit
  12. TACO Trump Bombs Iran
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 22, 2025
  14. Wars Metastisize
  15. Open Thread
  16. The Next Big One
  17. No, Iran Didn’t Target a Hospital (+Iran Update)
  18. The Real Reason for French Collapse at the Outset Of WWII
  19. The US Continues to Accelerate Its Decline (+Iran)
  20. Iran-Israeli War Update
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 15, 2025
  22. Open Thread
  23. Israel Hits Iran Hard
  24. State & Police Vulnerabilities in an American Insurrection Scenario
  25. Ukrainian War End Prediction
  26. Greta Did Her Job
  27. The L.A. Riots/Protests & the Paradox of Protest
  28. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 8, 2025
  29. Open Thread
  30. China’s Rare Earth Ban Starts Shutting Down Auto Production
  31. When Financiers Win, They Lose
  32. The Best Short Summary of Why China Is Winning & the West Fading
  33. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 1, 2025

May 2025

  1. Us vs. Them / Our Government vs. the Government
  2. China Is Going to Win the AI Race
  3. The End of America as the Essential Consumer Nation
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 25, 2025
  5. The Russian Way of War and Why They Are Fighting in the Ukraine
  6. Random Late Saturday/Early Sunday Quick Hits
  7. Open Thread
  8. The Embassy Shooter’s Manifest
  9. What Do You Call Two Dead Nazis?
  10. Treasury Bond Auction Is Extremely Weak
  11. The Attempt to Find a Democratic Joe Rogan or Beat the Right Online Will Fail
  12. America’s Military Power Is a Legacy Asset
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 18, 2025
  14. Amidst Everything Else, the Palestinian Genocide Is Picking Up Steam
  15. The Unifying Goal of Right & Center Elites
  16. Capitalists Only Respond to Threats
  17. The Horror of School
  18. “Art of the Cave”: Trump Walks Back China Tariffs For 90 Days
  19. Western Leaders Continue To Live In A Delusional LaLa Land With Respect To The Ukraine War
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 11, 2025
  21. Великая Отечественная война — The Great Patriotic War
  22. Open Thread
  23. Both The UK and Germany Are Going to Go Full Anti-Democratic or Full Trumpian
  24. Aeschylus Was As Right 2,540 Years Ago As He Is Right Today
  25. Fixing Education In The Age of “AI” Is Simple, But Hard
  26. Turns Out You Can’t Make A Deal With Trump (University and Law Firm Edition)
  27. Yes, If You’re American There Will Be Serious Shortages Starting In About A Month
  28. How Soon Empty Shelves
  29. Environmental Collapse, Not Just Climate Change
  30. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 4, 2025
  31. Open Thread
  32. UR-Values Of The Right, Center and Left
  33. Britain Is Toast, Period

April 2025

  1. Canada’s Future & The New Carney Government
  2. Liberal Party Wins Canadian Election
  3. How Biz Profs Destroyed Free Markets
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 27, 2025
  5. The End of Anti-Semitism
  6. Trump Has Made It Impossible For America To Resist China
  7. Fiscal Failure & The French Revolution
  8. The Proximate Cause Of Revolutions Is Inability To Tax & The US Is Well Down The Road
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 20, 2025
  10. Open Thread
  11. (Guest Post) Where Do Racism and Hatred Come From?
  12. Harvard Decides To Fight And America’s Elite War is ON
  13. No Food Has Entered Gaza In Fourty-Four Days
  14. “The Chief Justice Has Made His Ruling Now Let Him Enforce It”
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 13, 2025
  16. There Are Only Two Ways To Handle Trump’s Threats
  17. America Is Trying To Form An Anti-China Trade Bloc
  18. China Cuts The Legs Out Underneath The US LNG Industry
  19. Understanding Xi JIngping
  20. Philistines, Philistines Everywhere
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 6, 2025
  22. China in 1999 versus China in 2025
  23. A Well Laid Trap By Putin
  24. Open Thread
  25. Trump’s Liberation Day: This Boy Could Fuck Up Boiling Water
  26. LePen Being Banned From Running For President Is Not Lawfare

March 2025

  1. Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 30, 2025
  3. AOC Is Bernie’s Heir Because She Was Loyal When It Mattered
  4. Absolutely Massive Collapse In Travel From Canada To America Incoming
  5. Trump Doesn’t Have A Master Plan
  6. America’s In the Position the USSR was in the 80s
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 23, 2025
  8. Open Thread
  9. MAGA Are Fundamentally Morons
  10. Europe Can Have Both A Welfare State & A Warfare State
  11. How To Do Tariffs Right (Trump The Moron Edition)
  12. Extraordinary Rendition Comes Home To America
  13. Every Administration Since Obama Has Been Bombing Yemen, Yet…
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 16, 2025
  15. Open Thread
  16. The End of Empire: The Anger, Glee and Despair Tango
  17. The End Of The American Brain Drain
  18. Trump Is the Best President of My Life Unless You’re American
  19. Musk’s Empire Is Looking Even More Shaky
  20. Romania Bans Georgescu From Running Permanently
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 09, 2025
  22. Open Thread
  23. Understanding America’s Betrayal Of Ukraine
  24. Understanding Trump’s Tariffs Effects on World Trade & How He’s Ending the American Era
  25. Quick Takes: Tariffs, the Zelensky BlowUp, and More
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 02, 2025

February 2025

  1. The American Delusion
  2. Understanding the Core Goal of Western Governments & Western Decline
  3. Trump’s Budget Will Cause a Recession
  4. Tiresome Reminder of China’s Tech and Industry Lead
  5. Germany’s Merz Is A Moron, But at Least He’s Got Some Guts
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 23, 2025
  7. Open Thread
  8. Understanding DOGE’s War Against the 20th Century
  9. If You Go For the King #2: Romania
  10. Understanding the Russian-American Ukraine Peace Negotiations
  11. Understanding Canadians’ Reaction to Trump’s Threats
  12. Europe and Ukraine Aren’t at the Peace Table; That Means They’re on It
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 16, 2025
  14. Open Thread
  15. In The New Cold War, One Side Will Be Weaker and Less Prosperous
  16. Trump’s Actions Are Opportunities
  17. Gaza Ceasefire Deal In Danger Of Collapse
  18. It’s The End of the American Era. Period.
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 09, 2025
  20. Why Claiming Gaza’ Death Toll Was In The Ten Thousands Mattered
  21. My Call Of Half A Million Gaza Deaths Appears Close + Trump’s Gaza Policy
  22. Is Trump Running A Coup?
  23. End Of Empire: Effects & Theory Of Trump’s Tariffs
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 02, 2025
  25. Open Thread

January 2025

  1. Musk’s In A Lot of Trouble And Won’t Be the World’s Richest Man Much Longer
  2. AI Will Degenerate In Much The Same Way Google Did
  3. Trump Has Caused A Constitutional Crisis
  4. Trump’s Doing Everyone A Favor With His Tariffs (Emphasis on Canada)
  5. Slight Posting Delay
  6. Small Chinese Company Hilariously Crushes American AI
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 26, 2025
  8. Trump’s Laughable Sanction Threats Against Russia
  9. If You Really Hate DEI & Actually Want Merit, There Is A Way
  10. Actuaries Weigh In On Climate Change Effects
  11. Drill, Baby, Drill; Screw Immigrants; End the 14th Amendment; Climate Change Ho! Trump’s Day One Actions
  12. Has Israel Lost?
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 19, 2025
  14. The Tik-Tok Ban Is Hypocritical Nonsense
  15. The Tech-Company Fad For Laying Off “Low Performers” Is A Bad Idea
  16. Doctorow Has the Best Idea for How Canada Should Retaliate to Trump’s Tariffs + Make It So Americans Can’t Drive
  17. The Competency Crisis Is Not About DEI
  18. Gaza Ceasefire Proves Biden Wanted Genocide
  19. What Should Europe Do About American Cannibalizing It & The Chinese Threat?
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 12, 2025
  21. Open Thread
  22. The Pacific Pallisades Fire
  23. Canada 101 For Would Be American Annexers
  24. Smart CEOs Suck Up To Trump
  25. Canadian PM Trudeau’s Resignation is Perfectly Normal
  26. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 05, 2025
  27. Tracking the Signs of Decline in America
  28. Happy New Years

2024 332

December 2024

  1. Well That Was Hell: 2024 In Review
  2. The MAGA Civil War Over H1-B Visas
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 29, 2024
  4. The Fall Of Europe
  5. Merry Christmas
  6. The Game Theory of Giving Up Private Justice or Ending The State Monopoly On Violence
  7. Some Countries Need Less Population
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 22, 2024
  9. Open Thread
  10. Elon Musk Threatens Congress Successfully
  11. Batshit Delusional Canadian Conservatives
  12. Canadian Finance Minister Freeland Resigns
  13. How The Resource Squeeze Will Play Out
  14. The UR Rule Of Civilizations Worth Living In
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 15, 2024
  16. Open Thread
  17. Hell Is What Humans Deserve
  18. Taking the Hit For Stopping Genocide
  19. Did Mangione Break The Law of Nature When He Killed the Health Insurance CEO?
  20. The Generational Divide Inside Iran’s IRGC
  21. Israel Is Systematically Disarming Syria
  22. Two Lessons From the Syrian Collapse
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 08, 2024
  24. Looks Like Assad Is Done
  25. Syrian Allies Try To Hold At Homs
  26. US/China Trade War Heats Up
  27. Yes, Denial Of Care Improves Profits For Health Insurers
  28. Health Insurance CEO Assassinated
  29. The South Korean Coup Attempt
  30. About the Syrian War & Those Rebels
  31. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 01, 2024

November 2024

  1. Open Thread
  2. France Is Being Kicked Out of YET Another French Country
  3. Two Different Types Of Benefits From Meditation
  4. If The Gaza Ceasefire Holds, Israel Has Won
  5. 2024 Fundraiser Ends in Seven Days
  6. The Spiritual View “I Am Awareness”
  7. Explaining Ukraine To Your Uncle: The Causes of the War
  8. Why Assisted Suicide Bills Will Proliferate & Deaths Will Increase
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 24, 2024
  10. Open Thread
  11. What Does Ukraine Look Like Post War If Russia Imposes The Peace?
  12. What Should Now Be Obvious To Everyone About the Ukraine War
  13. Labor Membership & Power Requires Elite and Mass Support
  14. The Most Important Issues Facing Humanity
  15. How Much Does Having More Babies Matter For Domestic Politics?
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 17, 2024
  17. Open Thread
  18. DOGE Will Wind Up Costing the Government More Money
  19. What It Means To Be Left Wing
  20. What is Woke? Depends on Who You Are Asking
  21. Fundraising Update #2: New Tier Hit, Close To The Next One
  22. What Is A Communist?
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 10, 2024
  24. Open Thread
  25. Let’s Assume Trump Is Serious About Some Policies, What Are The Effects?
  26. It’s The Economy, Stupid (AKA Economists)
  27. Democrats will not adapt to this defeat
  28. Trump Wins
  29. 2024 Election Day Open Thread
  30. If Kamala Wins It’ll Be the Supreme Court Who Won It For Her
  31. When Labour Opposes Rapid Technological Change

October 2024

  1. The Loss Of American Leadership Competence Viewed From WWII
  2. No Gods, No Demons, No Superpowers
  3. Seven Days Till The US Federal Election
  4. Middle East War: The Israeli Ground Forces Still Can’t Deliver
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 27 2024
  6. Quick Takes: US Naval Decline, ASML’s Fall & More
  7. Austerity, Demand and Reindustrialization
  8. Postliberalism, Liberal Apogee, Routine Elite Failure and Then?
  9. The End of Austerity & Reindustrialization
  10. Georgia Is Forging A Unique Path In The Post-Soviet Space
  11. ‘Extraordinary’ Corruption at RTX (formerly Raytheon)
  12. 2024 Fundraising Update
  13. A Rare Balanced Update On The Russo-Ukrainian War
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 20 2024
  15. Germany Honors Biden For Destroying Nordstream & Their Economy
  16. Open Thread
  17. Europe Is Turning Anti-Immigrant
  18. Harris Is Making The Same Mistake Clinton Did When She Lost To Trump
  19. Fundamentals Series: On Problems, Principles & Solutions
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 13 2024
  21. Open Thread
  22. Domestic Consequences Of The New War Paradigm
  23. What Elites Do To Others They Would Do To You
  24. The Czechloslovakia Analogy Is Overused, But It Fits Israel
  25. How Lack Of Aggression Cripples Resistance Orgs
  26. The Leadership Competence Crisis
  27. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 6 2024
  28. Look, Israeli Ground Forces Suck & Their Country Is Postage Stamp Sized
  29. If You’re A Subscriber, Please Read This
  30. The Death Throes Of The American Empire & Western Hegemony
  31. Iran Hammers Tel Aviv & Israel
  32. The Senders stumble into the Terror Dome

September 2024

  1. Bikes, Cars, Pedestrians and Local Business
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 29 2024
  3. Jared Kushner declares victory
  4. The Future Of Hezbollah and Israel’s Conflict
  5. Open Thread
  6. Culture Creation
  7. 2024 Annual Fundraiser
  8. Consequences of the Israeli Pager Explosions Attack
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 22 2024
  10. Open Thread
  11. The Rise & Fall Of Higher Education & The Medieval Universities Crisis
  12. The cold comfort of a military coup
  13. Dollar Hegemony Decline Watch
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 15 2024
  15. Short Take: Reforming NATO
  16. The Necessity Of Surplus For Tech Innovation
  17. The Conditions For Breakthrough Societal Power
  18. The Deep State Is Scared
  19. Has Communism Happened Yet?
  20. The “China Cycle” Is Mostly A Thing Of the Past
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 8 2024
  22. Open Thread
  23. Pharma Charges 80K to cure Hepatitis C. The Manufacturing Cost is $78
  24. Why The Left Taking Over The Republican Party Is Even Harder Than Taking Over The Democratic Party
  25. Types Of Civilization Collapse
  26. Briahna Joy Gray and David Sirota discuss the Democratic Party
  27. Britain Is Arresting Prominent Pro-Palestinian Activists
  28. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 1 2024

August 2024

  1. Open Thread
  2. How Many Americans Will Die From Civilization Collapse?
  3. What if We Threw a Civil War and Nobody Came?
  4. Short Take: Why We Have a Second Amendment in the USA
  5. You Can’t Make Good Decisions If You Believe Lies
  6. Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, Arrested In France
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 25 2024
  8. Open Thread
  9. Kamala Makes Her Bones On Palestine
  10. How Europe Could Reinvigorate Their Economy
  11. America’s Responsibility For The Gaza Genocide
  12. Intelligence v.s. Judgment v.s. Creativity
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 18 2024
  14. Open Thread
  15. The Narrative Noise To Signal Ratio Is Deliberately Out Of Control
  16. The End Of Presumptive Anti-Semitism
  17. Short Take: Symposium on the Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion
  18. The Short-Sightedness Of Destroying BioDiversity
  19. Westphalia, Anarchy and Russian Grand Strategy
  20. Short Take: the NATO Incursion into the Kursk Oblast
  21. And Now For Something Completely Different!
  22. Israel’s Economy Is Collapsing & Other Good News
  23. AI Dynamic Pricing
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 11 2024
  25. Open Thread
  26. The Russian Way of War
  27. Tim Walz Is Excellent Domestically & Pro-Genocide
  28. Why Are the British Race Riots Happening?
  29. Big Picture Financial Collapse
  30. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 4 2024
  31. Open Thread
  32. China Continues To Crush In Science & Intel Falters In Chips

July 2024

  1. The Most Evil Religious Belief
  2. Will Kamala Harris Be A Worse President Because She Doesn’t Have Children?
  3. Culture War Outrage BS At The Olympics
  4. Open Thread
  5. Palestinian Deaths In the Gaza Conflict Are Probably Close To Half A Million
  6. All We Have Is Each Other
  7. The Absurdity of “Trump Is Worse” Arguments Aimed At American Palestinians
  8. Joe’s Out And The Election Is No Longer In The Bag For Trump
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 21 2024
  10. Open Thread
  11. Scratch A CEO, Find A Fascist
  12. How Much Does Genocide In Gaza Effect The US Presidential Election?
  13. Get Out If You Can. If Not, Prepare
  14. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 14 2024
  15. Hard To Care About the Attempted Assassination Of Trump
  16. Open Thread
  17. Apparently Covid Didn’t Get The Notice That’s It’s Cancelled
  18. The Dollar Is Impregnable & The West Will Always Control International Banking (Honest)
  19. Don’t Call It Degrowth, Call It the “No Bullshit Society”
  20. Open AI Pulls Out Of China In Another Boneheaded Move
  21. The Left’s “Victory” In France
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 07 2024
  23. Open Thread
  24. Consequences of the British Election
  25. Happy Food Coma Day
  26. Let’s Talk About Joe Biden
  27. The UK’s Housing And Immigration Crisis In Charts

June 2024

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 30 2024
  2. Open Thread
  3. Why Am I Writing About China So Much?
  4. What Xi Jingping Has Done Right to Preserve CCP Power and Effectiveness
  5. UK’S Reform Party Is Poised To Destroy the Consersvatives, and Deserves To
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 23 2024
  7. Open Thread
  8. US Likely To Sanction World’s Largest Drone Manufacturer
  9. Why Do I Talk About Real Food Shortages In The Future?
  10. China’s Rise Is Normal
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 16 2024
  12. Open Thread
  13. If You Believe Either Biden Or Trump Will Halt Decline You’re A Fool
  14. Remembering the Good Job Market Of the 70s
  15. If Bosses Want At-Will Firing This Is What Is Required (The Good Society)
  16. A Few Words On Prediction
  17. Le Pen Is Delusional But Macron Deserves To Lose
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 09 2024
  19. What Is Israel’s Goal In the Gaza War?
  20. The Real Test Of The Gaza War Will Be The Israeli Invasion Of Southern Lebanon
  21. Do You Have Any Moral Absolutes?
  22. Did The Houthis Hit The USS Eisenhower May 31st?
  23. India Is Cooked
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 02 2024
  25. Open Thread

May 2024

  1. Trump Found Guilty: Will It Matter?
  2. The Revival Of Anti-Semitism By Israel And Its Defenders
  3. Continued Privatization
  4. How The Great Space Failure of the Seventies Doomed Industrial Society
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 26 2024
  6. Quick Takes: Hamas, China Semis and More
  7. UN Can’t Feed Rafah Anymore
  8. ICC Goes Off The Reservation & Issues Refferal For Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu & Hamas’s Leader
  9. The Role of Character and Ideology in Prosperity
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 19 2024
  11. Open Thread
  12. Israel’s Ground Forces Are Even Worse Than I Believed
  13. Using Comparative & Absolute Advantage To Explain China’s Rise
  14. You Can’t Run Industrial Policy OR A War Economy Under Neoliberalism
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 12 2024
  16. Open Thread
  17. What Happens To Israel If They Accomplish Their Genocide
  18. What Catholic Confession Is Meant To Do And How It Goes Wrong
  19. Israel Is Killing A Lot Of Civilians, But Is It Winning The War?
  20. Why Technocratic Elites Aren’t Trusted (Sam Altman Edition)
  21. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 5 2024
  22. Open Thread
  23. America Flails, Resorting To Ineffective Sanctions Over and Over
  24. The Retard Parade of Western Politics Exemplified By Trump and Biden

April 2024

  1. How To Deal With Student Protest Camps (FDR Edition)
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 28 2024
  3. Open Thread
  4. Canadian Housing Market Craziness
  5. French Troops Have Been Forced To Withdraw From Three African Sahel Countries In the Last Two Years
  6. EU Delusion on Sanctions and Europe’s Future
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 21 2024
  8. Open Thread
  9. Why I Rarely Care About The Events Of the Day
  10. China Builds A Temporary Bridge In Seven Days: Baltimore Will Take Years To Rebuild Theirs
  11. The Standard Conditions Peaceful Or Violent Revolution, Collapse and Coups
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 14, 2024
  13. And Iran Retaliates For the Embassy Attack
  14. Open Thread
  15. How To Know When The US Deficit Is Actually A Problem
  16. How To Stop Half-Assing Drug Policy & Actually Reduce Overdoses
  17. The End Of Zoom & Video Evidence
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 7, 2024
  19. Israel’s Gunning To Lose US Support
  20. Open Thread
  21. What Happens When Insurance Goes Away
  22. Iran’s Likely Response To The Attack On Their Embassy
  23. The Hard Problem of Leadership: Scale and Good Leaders
  24. The Hard Problem of Leadership

March 2024

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 31, 2024
  2. Open Thread
  3. Russia Begins To Systematically Destroy The Ukrainian Power Grid
  4. The Lessons Of Jesus (Or “Why Conservatives Hate Francis”)
  5. Why China Is Wise Not To Sanction The West
  6. In A Crisis We Can Only Afford What We Can Already Do
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 24, 2024
  8. Open Thread
  9. Update On Server Issues and Load Times
  10. GIGO: The Past of Google Search Is the Future Of LLM AI Models
  11. Poverty, Wealth and Money In The New Green Age (Principles of the Green Age #1.1)
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 17, 2024
  13. Open Thread
  14. The TikTok Forced Sale
  15. When And Where Will A Great Power War Happen?
  16. Server Issues & Slow Load Times
  17. Open Thread
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 10, 2024
  19. On The Use of Clubs
  20. Principles Of The Green Age After The Collapse: #1
  21. Quick Takes Nine
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 3, 2024
  23. No Mass Rapes By Hamas On October 7th/Open Thread
  24. The Coming Draft And The Future Of Coercion

February 2024

  1. The Most Likely “War” With Russia Scenario
  2. Macron & Many European Leaders Call For WWIII?
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 25, 2024
  4. Open Thread
  5. The Level Of American Foreign Policy Incompetence
  6. The Rate Of Child-Deaths In Gaza Are About To Soar
  7. More Statistical Manipulation In Real Time (Top 1% Wealth)
  8. Lightning Strikes And Third Parties
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 18, 2024
  10. Open Thread
  11. US Sanctions On China’s Chip Industry Have Completely Backfired
  12. The Truth About Joe Biden, America, And Europe’s Future
  13. Why Voting For The Lesser Evil Is Strategic Imbecility
  14. Is Lesser Evilism Failing In America
  15. The Ant
  16. Open Thread
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 11, 2024
  18. The Competition Between West And The Rest Is Already Over
  19. The Carlson/Putin Interview
  20. Western China Economic News Is Totally Deranged
  21. Out Of Control Anglo Immigration
  22. Ukraine Update Feb 6, 2024
  23. Construction of Reality Preview: The Ritual Masters
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 4, 2024
  25. Open Thread
  26. The Failure of Balance Of Power In the New Deal
  27. The Simplest Rule of System Stability & How Breaking It Destroyed Post-War Liberalism

January 2024

  1. Clear Talk About History’s Sweep
  2. And This God Has Granted To Me, That
  3. The US & Nine Other Nations Now Helping Israel Starve Gazans
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 28, 2024
  5. Will Israel Invade Lebanon? Will They Win If They Do?
  6. The ICJ Ruling On Israeli Genocide In Gaza
  7. Your Greatest Enjoyment
  8. Construction of Reality: Interaction Ritual
  9. Why Every Society Failed The Covid Test
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 21, 2024
  11. Open Thread
  12. The Second Most Important Story In The World
  13. The Weird Pro-Biden Messaging
  14. The Terminator Future (The End of Meat)
  15. How Changing Military Technology Has Contributed To End of Empire
  16. The Sun Sets Slowly—Then Quickly
  17. $900 To Final Fundraising Goal
  18. Open Thread
  19. The ICJ Genocide Case Is No-Win For The Rules Based Order
  20. Understanding Morality
  21. Conditions For Israeli Loss
  22. Construction Of Reality: Humanity’s First Invention
  23. Let’s Discuss Israel And Gaza Again
  24. Open Thread
  25. The Anti-China Chip Jeremiad Is The Stupidest Policy Imaginable
  26. Construction of Reality: Who You Feel With
  27. What Was Important In 2023

2023 275

December 2023

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 31, 2023
  2. Assassination Will Not Help Israel
  3. The Presumption of Widespread Pedophilia In Elites
  4. Using Early Human Existence To Understand Historical Societies
  5. 2023 Fundraising Update: New Chapters Unlocked
  6. Merry Christmas
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 24, 2023
  8. Open Thread
  9. Things Are Going Much Worse For Israel In Gaza Than The Official Reports
  10. Half Of Gaza’s Population Is Now Starving
  11. The Secret Determinant of Your Survival in Catastrophes
  12. National Futures In The Age of China & Collapse
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 17, 2023
  14. Open Thread
  15. Being Human Alone: Maslow Was Wrong
  16. The Entire West’s Military Is Weak
  17. Russia Is An Imperial State While America Is A Plutocratic Oligarchy
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 10, 2023
  19. Open Thread
  20. “Construction of Reality” Chapter 3: Being Aware
  21. “The Construction of Reality” Introduction & “The Social Facts Which Rule Us”
  22. Why Israel Is Performing So Badly Against Hamas
  23. Respiratory Infection Hospital Admission 6X Standard Deviations Up
  24. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 3, 2023
  25. China Will Be Understood To Be The World’s Premier Power In Less Than A Decade

November 2023

  1. Good Guys And Bad Guys In Gaza
  2. How To Use China To Make Your Left Wing Government Succeed
  3. Fundraising Update & New Rewards
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 26, 2023
  5. Open Thread
  6. Quick Takes 8: China Auto, Israeli Mass Murder, Covid Mass Murder & More
  7. Happy Thanksgiving
  8. Many Politicians Support Israeli Genocide Because They’re Being Blackmailed
  9. Full Text Of Bin Laden’s “Letter To America” (With Brief Commentary)
  10. The Logic Of Ethnic Cleansing And Genocide
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 19, 2023
  12. Open Thread
  13. Reversing European Decline
  14. The Conditions For Peace In Ukraine
  15. 2023 Fundraiser
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 12, 2023
  17. Open Thread
  18. Disease, Thirst and Hunger Spread In Gaza / How Erdogan Could Help
  19. Laying Down A Marker
  20. Reasons For Hope In The Age of Collapse
  21. Hate, Anger, Contempt And Our Leadership
  22. Enough! (Palestine)
  23. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 5, 2023
  24. Open Thread
  25. Ukraine Has Lost
  26. Climate Change and Environmental Collapse (State of the World 2023 #2)

October 2023

  1. Notes On The Structure Of American Imperial Collapse (State of the World 2023, #1)
  2. Why Economists Are Wrong About How Good The Economy Is, And Regular People Are Right
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 29, 2023
  4. Open Thread
  5. China Is Transitioning Economically, And So Far Successfully
  6. The Lost Chance For Peace In Ukraine & What It Will Cost
  7. British Intelligence Says Russian Casualties Up 90% + Palestine Update
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 22, 2023
  9. One Relatively Bloodless Way To End The Genocide In Gaza
  10. Open Thread
  11. Understanding the Israeli Project
  12. Palestine and Ukraine Updated Commentary
  13. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 15, 2023
  14. Open Thread
  15. Avoiding Mass Ethnic Cleansing Or Genocide In Gaza
  16. I Try To Avoid The Word Genocide
  17. Thinking About A Hezbollah Intervention
  18. Hamas Attacks, What Does It Mean?
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 8, 2023
  20. Open Thread
  21. The Triumph Of The Good
  22. Political v.s Physical Tipping Points
  23. The Pointlessness Of Continuing The Ukraine War (And Its Future)
  24. The Absolute Disaster Of Losing Dollar Privilege
  25. Weekend Wrap October 1, 2023

September 2023

  1. Open Thread
  2. A New Era Of Mass Armies Approaches
  3. Trump Has Been A Fraudster All His Career, So What’s Changed?
  4. German Dependence On China
  5. Open Thread
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 24, 2023
  7. Why Canada Is Having A Diplomatic Crisis With India
  8. Money Is Not Wealth
  9. This Is Your Hospital System On Covid and Privatization (Ontario Edition)
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 17, 2023
  11. Open Thread
  12. Ten Simple Facts About Covid (With Bonus Fact!)
  13. CEO Honesty About Wanting High Unemployment
  14. Osama Bin Laden: The First Great Man Of The 21st Century
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 10, 2023
  16. Open Thread
  17. Quick Takes 7: RICO abuse against activists; Regulating AirBnB & Early Climate Change Flooding
  18. US Chip Sanctions On China Appear To Be Failing Hard
  19. The Good & The Bad In The Future of Labor
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 3, 2023
  21. Open Thread

August 2023

  1. The Supreme Stupidity of the “End of History” And Its Consequences
  2. Problems of Capitalism: Power Accumulation
  3. The Essential Political Skill For Ordinary People
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 27, 2023
  5. Open Thread
  6. The End Of The Post-War & Post-Soviet Eras
  7. Wagner Chief Prigozhin Dies
  8. Declining Population Thru Lower Birth Rates Is GOOD, Mmmmkay?
  9. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 20, 2023
  10. Open Thread
  11. Quick Takes: Covid, China, Environment & More
  12. Why Human Judgment Must Be Primary Over Metrics (Academic Edition)
  13. The “It Can’t Be Done Because It’s Never Been Done” Problem
  14. Why Positive Emotions Towards Difficult People And Things Can Be Good
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 13, 2023
  16. Open Thread
  17. The Jan 6th Case Against Trump Is The Right One
  18. The Simplest Thing You Need To Understand About Climate Change
  19. Ukraine Has Lost & A Negotiated Peace Is The Only Sane & Humane Solution
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 6, 2023
  21. Open Thread
  22. A Basic Buddhist Meditation Synthesis
  23. Preparing For Collapse During Collapse

July 2023

  1. Quick Takes 5: The Year Climate Change Became Undeniable
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 30, 2023
  3. Open Thread
  4. At a Societal Level “Can’t Afford” Is Bullshit
  5. The Distributed Nature Of Collapse
  6. How To Reduce Inflation And Create A Good Economy
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 23, 2023
  8. Open Thread
  9. How Religions Go Wrong (Fire From The Gods 3)
  10. The Elements Of Persuasion
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 16, 2023
  12. Open Thread
  13. Police Abolition Principles
  14. Permafrost Tipping Point Almost Certainly Reached
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 9, 2023
  16. Open Thread
  17. Is The Police’s Right Wing Bias A Problem For Them?
  18. The Necessary Legal Changes To Deal With Deep Fakes
  19. The January 6th Fools & Basic Coup Lessons
  20. France Isn’t In A Civil War Yet, But It Is Close
  21. Utilities As Mutual Companies
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 2, 2023
  23. Open Thread

June 2023

  1. Quick Takes 4: Covid Mental Illness, IMF Admits Greed Sometimes Bad, & More
  2. How Over Is Covid?
  3. What’s The Good Future Look Like In Environmental Collapse?
  4. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 25, 2023
  5. Prigozhin Launches A Coup Effort (And It’s Over)
  6. Pax Americana Is A Zombie
  7. Believing You Should Be Happy
  8. Jewish, Israeli & Zionist Are Three Different Things
  9. The Duty Of The Good Is To Be Powerful
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 18, 2023
  11. Open Thread
  12. Quick Takes 3: Foreign Interference, Pandemic Deaths As New Normal, China-Brazil Trade and More
  13. What Made Wagner Useful To Putin & Russia + Notes On Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
  14. And He Said To Me “We’re all going to die, and heaven knows we deserve to”
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 11, 2023
  16. Open Thread
  17. Quick Takes 2: The End Of Wild Fish Approaches, Decline Of The Dollar, And More
  18. Quick Takes: American Can’t Build Ships; Plants Feel Pain & More
  19. Wagner Mercenary Company Chief Prigozhin Has Gone Over The Line
  20. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 4, 2023
  21. Open Thread
  22. Freezing and Seizing Bank Accounts To Stop Protests And End Bail Funds & Protests

May 2023

  1. Bruno Macaes On Putin And The World Order
  2. Rising Ideologies Need People Inside; Stagnant Hegemonies Want People Out
  3. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 28, 2023
  4. Open Thread
  5. Ending Zero-Covid Coming Home To Roost For China
  6. The Debt Ceiling Crisis Is Just Politics
  7. Capitalism’s “Invisible Hand” Is Prescriptive More Than Descriptive
  8. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 21, 2023
  9. Open Thread
  10. As Long Covid Increases Expect Government Policy To Rush Death
  11. China Has A Huge Lead In Patents
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 14, 2023
  13. Open Thread
  14. Google Neural Net “AI” Is About To Destroy Half The Independent Web
  15. Europe Needs To Re-evaluate Its Importance And Its American Vassalization
  16. Denial Of Reality
  17. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 7, 2023
  18. Open Thread
  19. Are Police In San Francisco Too Lazy To Work, Too Scared, Or Just Incompetent
  20. Violent Determinants Of Social Hierarchy
  21. The Disastrous Rise of STEM

April 2023

  1. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 30, 2023
  2. Open Thread
  3. Why The Rich Love To Crush Wages, Cut Pensions And So On To Fight Inflation
  4. How Elites Liquidate National Advantage (Fall Of The American Empire)
  5. China Is Winning The Electric Vehicle Race. Why And What Does It Show?
  6. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 23, 2023
  7. Open Thread
  8. The Government of Canada Long Covid Report Suggests 15% Will Get Long Covid
  9. Government For the People Shouldn’t Keep Secrets From the People
  10. The Teixeira Documents Are Being Kept Secret By Media
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 16, 2023
  12. Open Thread
  13. Feinstein And the Ginsburg Betrayal
  14. The US Appears To Be On The Road To Civil War
  15. China Helps Bring An End To Yemen War
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 9, 2023
  17. Open Thread
  18. Some Acts Are Always Evil
  19. The Pandemic Is Not Over And Neither Is Long Covid
  20. Declining Birth Rates Are Good & Bad
  21. Justice, Law and Norms
  22. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 2, 2023
  23. Open Thread

March 2023

  1. Consequences Of Indicting Trump
  2. Why America Will Probably Lose The New Cold War
  3. How Should CEOs And Politicians Be Punished For the Evil They Do?
  4. Is France Near A New Republic?
  5. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 26, 2023
  6. Open Thread
  7. God As Idea, By Eric Anderson
  8. The First Great Environmental Crisis Will Be
  9. Analyzing The Trans Panic
  10. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 19, 2023
  11. Open Thread
  12. China Leads A Successful Middle East Summit
  13. Remembering Who The Nazis Killed First
  14. Consequences Of Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure
  15. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 12, 2023
  16. Open Thread
  17. Britain’s Bare Produce Shelves
  18. The Basis Of All Law
  19. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 5, 2023
  20. Open Thread
  21. The UK Continues Its Decline
  22. The US Endgame In The Ukraine

February 2023

  1. “Fuck Suffering”, The Buddhist Solution (Part One)
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 26, 2023
  3. Open Thread
  4. Fire From The Gods: the Original Sins of Agriculture and Industrialism And Hope For The Future
  5. The Essence of Capitalism
  6. Capitalism as Mental Illness, by Eric Anderson
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 19, 2023
  8. Open Thread
  9. The Core Of Class Struggle From Below
  10. Schooling Kills Creativity And Then Work Buries It
  11. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 12, 2023
  12. Open Thread
  13. Dog Bites Man: The US (With Foreign Allies) Did Blow Up The Nord Stream Pipelines
  14. Reasons For Hope (1): The Solutions Are Known
  15. Lean Into The Good
  16. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 5, 2023
  17. Open Thread
  18. I’m Just Embarrassed For Humanity At This Point
  19. Britain Stops Making Vaccine Available (But the Rich Will Still Get It)

January 2023

  1. What Hungary’s Purge of Senior Military Officers Can Teach Us All
  2. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 29, 2023
  3. Open Thread
  4. Know Thine Enemy
  5. A Story About How Health Care Privatization Happens
  6. The Red Queen’s Race, Neoliberalism & Why Healthcare Is Being Privatized
  7. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 22, 2023
  8. Open Thread & Fundraising Finale
  9. The Death Throes Of The World Europe Made
  10. China’s Trade Surplus Grows, Including With the US
  11. Fundraiser Ends Friday
  12. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 15, 2023
  13. Open Thread
  14. Almost Nothing
  15. America Will Lose Its Scientific Ascendance To China & When Disruptive Science Will Recover
  16. Fundraiser Update
  17. Why The American Radical Right Is Powerful And The American Left Is Meaningless
  18. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 8, 2023
  19. Open Thread
  20. The Republican House Speaker Votes Show Progressive’s Disbelief In Their Own Legitimacy
  21. Some Good Covid News From France
  22. Canadian Housing And Immigration Policy
  23. As China Rises, Europe Falls
  24. Obvious Predictions For 2023
  25. Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 1, 2023

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