Saturday, September 19, 2026
Global Shipping Costs Explode as Hormuz Disruptions Hit Key Trade Routes
Maritime shipping costs are rising sharply, with no end in sight. That means more inflation and shortages.
New Jobs in 140 Years of Data: Why the AI Displacement Fear Is Overstated — and What to Worry About Instead
The long historical record shows that big technology changes like AIdo not get rid of many job types but does change their content.
Coffee Break: Reading for Health, AI Language, AI in Medicine, and Environmental Action
Part the First: And in Other News, What Really Maintains Brain Health. Big brother obviously knows how old I am. That’s the only explanation for why he litters my screen with ads for old people things with each click to a new website. “Dementia happens when you cannot pronounce these three words” is my favorite. […]
Trump Adds His Newly Appointed Fed Chair to His Enemies List
Trump’s venomous attack against a Fed rate hike Mr. Market demanded provides yet more evidence of his escalating grandiosity and paranoia.
Nice Timing: US Removes Venezuela from List of Countries Failing to Combat Drug Trafficking Two Weeks After Historic Oil “Deal”
Smoke and mirrors on a Trumpian scale.
Rob Urie: Hack-Bots Gone Wild – Agentic AI Does What it Was Created to Do (and Revisiting the Fake Bond Market Panic)
Some badly-needed sanity-checks on much-hyped stories: the agentic AI breakout and the (nowhere to be found) bond market freakout.
Iran War Quick Snippets: Trump Again Threatens Annihilation Amid Signs of Saudi-Ansar Allah Feelers
Today’s Iran war news: Trump defaults to ever be escalating even as his room for maneuver shrinks
The Many Hypotheses of Why There Is an Avoidable Energy Crisis
From U.S. strategy and multipolar transitions to systemic shifts or human errors, these are some of the hypotheses behind the energy crisis
Money Creation Does Not Cause Inflation
An apparently needed debunking of well-disproven theories that assert that money supply growth generates inflation.
Iran War: Saudi Transits Out of Strait of Hormuz Up Markedly But Diesel Crunch Acute as US Weighs Export Ban
Today’s Iran war news: More oil is exiting the Gulf than before, but diesel and food supplies are in a global crunch.
Professor Michael Hudson interview with Lena Petrova on BRICS and the Global Economy
Michael Hudson discusses BRICS, the posture of India, the energy crisis and the evolution to a new monetary order.
How the American Revolt Against Flock Cameras Mirrors the Boston Tea Party of 1773
Flock camera interventions illustrate that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
