Technology
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The Coming Doom Loop | Nouriel Roubini
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Nouriel RoubiniIn the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, and now a looming insolvency crisis in the financial sector, central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve are facing a trilemma. Unable to fight inflation and provide liquidity support simultaneously, the only solution is a severe recession – and thus a broader debt crisis. Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate March 30, ...
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The death of open access mega-journals? | Justin Jackson
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Justin Jackson -- Phys.org March 29, 2023 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscripti ...
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Let the Banks Burn | Yanis Varoufakis
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Yanis VaroufakisThe banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least no ...
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Analysis: Silicon Valley Bank's Fall Widens Systemic Cracks As Cheap Money Vanishes | David Randall And Davide Barbuscia
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NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - Cracks are appearing in the global financial system as the decade-long era of cheap money ends, with some investors worrying the shock collapse of Silicon Valley Bank s ...
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Solving the Debt Crisis the American Way | Ellen Brown
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Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Jan. 20, 2023 On Friday, Jan. 13, Treasury SecretaryJanet Yellen wrote to C ...
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The Techno-Feudal Method to Musk’s Twitter Madness | Yanis Varoufakis
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Elon Musk/Twitter. Source: El Portaculo. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Immediately after taking over Twitter and pronouncing himself Chief Twit, Elon Musk affirmed his commit ...
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How to Green Our Parched Farmlands & Finance Critical Infrastructure | Ellen Brown
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Drought-stricken farmland in California. Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 2, 2022 There are work-arounds the United States can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-ne ...
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The Road to Fascism: How the War in Ukraine is Changing Europe | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 28, 2022 As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by Eu ...
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U.S. Considers Radical Rethinking Of Dollar For Today's Digital World | David Gura
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Feb. 6, 2022 (NPR) -- Since its establishment as the country's national currency, the dollar has undergone many updates and changes, but nothing compares to the proposal being debated today. The Unit ...
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Human gut bacteria have sex to share vitamin B12 | University of California - Riverside
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Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Dec. 1, 2022 (Phys.org) -- Your gut bacteria need vitamin B12 j ...
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Towards Quantum Simulation Of False Vacuum Decay | University of Cambridge
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Measured momentum distribution of the shaken quantum gas during the phase transition. The central peak on the left corresponds to the initial Mott insulator while the two peaks on the right indicate ...
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