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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

RIP Steve Horwitz

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Steven G. Horwitz died the day before yesterday of lymphoma at age 57.  Probably most reading this do not know who he was, but he was somebo...
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Monday, June 28, 2021

Socially Necessary Labour Time: outline of a review

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I have excerpted all the passages in Capital and Theories of Surplus Value in which Marx explicitly discusses the concept of socially nece...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Oedipus Marx and the Chimera of Socially Necessary Labour Time

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Karl Marx: "Pamphlet No. 1 ends with the statement: 'Wealth is nothing but disposable time'" No, it doesn't.  The pamp...
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Thursday, June 24, 2021

I am invisible

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 That is all.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Will Tether Bring All The Cryptocurrencies Way Down?

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 I do not know, but there is a fairly serious argument now out there that this could happen.  It is made by Gennaro at hackermoon.com/tether...

TimeWork Web Reloaded

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Publication of my article, " The Ambivalence of Disposable Time: The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties at Two Hundred ,...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

The Iranian Presidential Election

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 The outcome is as expected, a solid victory with 18 out of 28 million votes or so for the hardline winner, Ebrahim Raisi, who is currently ...
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Saturday, June 19, 2021

Bottom Line On The Biden-Putin Summit

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 According to Robyn Dixon of the Washington Post on 6/18/21 regarding the outcome of the Buden-Putin summit in Geneva, I shall simply quote ...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Why Are Infrastructure Cost So High In The US?

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Sorry, but anybody wanting some simple answer on this one, especially an ideologically neat one, sorry, there is not one, Indeed, on this im...
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Sunday, June 13, 2021

The Zhou Enlai Paradox

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A bit over a half century ago when Henry Kissinger was organizing Richard Nixon's visit to China, he was largely interacting on this mat...

The Cornwall Paradox

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 The County of Cornwall has been in the news as the site of the G7 summit, just ended. In today's Washington Post an article "In Co...
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Friday, June 11, 2021

Global Polls

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OK, so I think the nations surveyed are biased, but I have now seen two polls with roughly similar polls.   So Pew, with a larger base and s...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Treasury Secretary Yellen Achieves A Victory

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 This is her getting the G-7 finance ministers to agree to a minimum 15% corporate tax. It is easy to sneer at this. Some of the nations inv...
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Sunday, June 6, 2021

#TangPing ("lying flat")

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China's new 'tang ping' trend aims to highlight pressures of work culture (from BBC) Young people in China exhausted by a cultur...

The War On Anthony Fauci

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 This title may seem a bit over the top, but for those not paying attention to the Trump media bubble they may not realize how completely ou...
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