Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore: China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan.The CradleXi of Arabia and the petroyuan drivePepe Escobar

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The case for stronger automatic stabilizers.The LensPolicymaking in a Pan(dem)icStephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders

Ο αγαπημένος μας σύζυγος, πατέρας, παππούς, αδελφός και θείος Δημήτρης Μαυρουδέας έφυγε την Πέμπτη για το μακρινό ταξίδι. Γεννήθηκε το 1931 στα Τσέρια της Έξω Μάνης. Σπούδασε στη Νομική Σχολή της Αθήνας. Εντάχθηκε στο δικαστικό σώμα, πέρασε από όλες τις βαθμίδς του και αποχώρησε ως αντιπρόεδρος του Ελεγκτικού Συνεδρίου. Ο εξόδιος αποχαιρετισμός του θα γίνει την Τρίτη 20/12/2022, στις 12μμ στο Πρώτο Νεκροταφείο της Αθήνας. Advertisement...

Weekly Indicators for December 12 – 16 at Seeking Alpha  – by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. The coincident indicators, especially employment, are hanging on by the proverbial skin of their teeth. I don’t think they roll over until gas prices stop declining. In any event, clicking over and reading will bring you up to the moment on the status of the carnage, and bring me a little reward for the...

ACA Signups blog and healthcare author, Charles Gaba does a rewrite of an earlier commentary at his site. If you missed it, Angry Bear blog featured “33 Months of COVID In One Image” also. Recently, this writeup’s stats was used by Prof. Paul Krugman in his recent NYT article, “Will 2024 Be a Vaccine Election?” In it, Prof. Krug explains the political partisanship impact on becoming vaccinated or not and the resulting impact as detailed by Charles...

AB writer, commenter and Social Security expert, Dale Coberly provides a different take on whether “President Biden Should Direct the Social Security Administration to Stop Penalizing Marriage.” ~~~~~~~~ Nancy Altman wrote the following piece, which appeared in PROGRESS AMERICA, on December 16, 2022 as well as Common Dreams.  I thought it needed a response because I regard it as dangerous to Social Security.  I have inserted my responses...

Blog Making polluters pay How the Emissions Trading Scheme should be harnessed to benefit people and climate By Alex Chapman 18 December 2022 The fossil fuel emergency is escalating, driving a cost of living scandal at home, and intensifying...

Professor Steve Keen is an internationally recognized Economist. Described by Vox Day and Daniel Sanderson as "the greatest living economist," this video series is designed to bring out Steve's natural humility. Joined by regular guests Daniel Sanderson and Tyrone Keynes (Ty), the series will oscillate between friendly banter and economic excellence. WARNING: if you are a close-minded neoclassical economist, climate denier, or generally an angry person, this show is NOT for you....

At the beginning of this year, I posted a response to Martin Hägglund's This Life: Secular faith and spiritual freedom. In October I learned of a conference next May in Belgium at which Hägglund will be one of the keynote speakers. So I submitted an abstract to present a paper.When it came time to start working on a draft for the conference, I remembered my blog post and it formed the core for the rest of the draft. In that earlier post, I wrote about Marx's identification in the Grundrisse...