Poland’s Ruling Liberals Appear To Be Plotting A Major Escalation Against Russia | naked capitalism
Warsaw needs to justify the 4.8 percent of GDP being spent on war racket, but how far do some Cold War warriors want to go?
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Links 9/19/2026 | naked capitalism
Our rocky daily links: Caffeine pollution, Ansar Allah hits Riyadh, China oil price rise, Japan interest rate hike, Colorado River crisis, Iran mass mobilization, France fuel shortages blockades, Merz out? EU climate ins...
Global Shipping Costs Explode as Hormuz Disruptions Hit Key Trade Routes | naked capitalism
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 | naked capitalism
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 | naked capitalism
Yes, reading is good for you, AI is full of nonsensical promises and nonsense language, but collective action works and Amish have answers.
Trump Adds His Newly Appointed Fed Chair to His Enemies List | naked capitalism
Trump's venomous attack against a Fed rate hike Mr. Market demanded provides yet more evidence of his escalating grandiosity and paranoia.
The New York Fed DSGE Model Forecast—September 2026
A look at the economic forecasts generated by the New York Fed’s dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model and its change since June 2026.
Will the Trump-Xi summit make limited progress on AI?
Expectations for the upcoming September 24 summit meeting in Washington between Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Donald Trump are not high. That is not to say that the outcome will be insignificant, but no great change...
Links 9/18/2026 | naked capitalism
Our finely-tuned links: DOGE is back, public robotoilets, warfare on the moon, drug dealers on Google Maps, and the 'largest theft of labor in history.'
Nice Timing: US Removes Venezuela from List of Countries Failing to Combat Drug Trafficking Two Weeks After Historic Oil "Deal" | naked capitalism
Smoke and mirrors on a Trumpian scale.
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Rob Urie: Hack-Bots Gone Wild – Agentic AI Does What it Was Created to Do (and Revisiting the Fake Bond Market Panic) | naked capitalism
Some badly-needed sanity-checks on much-hyped stories: the agentic AI breakout and the (nowhere to be found) bond market freakout.
Money Creation Does Not Cause Inflation | naked capitalism
An apparently needed debunking of well-disproven theories that assert that money supply growth generates inflation.