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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yet the notion that things will be calmer now is for the birds. Trump is an unstable bully who just happens to be in charge of the world’s most important economy. He is likely to lash out as things get worse – as they will.

All of which brings us back to Reeves. What Britain wants out of a trade deal is clear. It would like to be exempt from Trump’s across-the-board 10% tariff imposed on all countries, and to see a cut – preferably to zero – in the 25% levy on car exports to the US. The US wants easier access for its food exports, including chlorine-washed chicken, something the UK considers a red line.

This would be a tricky negotiation at the best of times but the brutal truth is that nobody can predict what Trump will do or say from one moment to the next. There will be other casualties of his wrecking-ball approach. The UK could be one of them.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-12-31T21:44:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What we are celebrating when we commemorate the centennial of The Waste Land is less the singular achievement of a particular poet than the moment when the aforementioned aesthetic norms improbably broke through to a popular audience and became the idiom in which art was produced, received, discussed, interpreted, judged, and—one wants to say—lived. That is perhaps why it has been difficult not to detect in the many centennials this year an undercurrent of melancholy and nostalgia, a mixture of memory and desire. Since 1989, it has become increasingly clear that the high Modernist period was a historical exception and the current era is the historical rule. Although the time-travel simulation of anniversary rituals allows readers to taste a little of the excitement of reading these works when they were first published, it comes with the uneasy recognition that the culture of the current era doesn’t measure up. One simply cannot celebrate 1922 today with a good conscience: to continue to venerate works of art produced 100 years ago, works that explicitly aimed to “make it new,” for succeeding in their aims, is to violate the precise terms of that veneration, which could be satisfied only by making it new—without any reference whatsoever to this now canonical desideratum. This vicious circle delimits a cultural space no less constricting than the Sybil’s ampulla; unfortunately, with the current intensely apocalyptic sense of the future, readers are well-positioned to empathize with the predicament of a person for whom the only remaining novel experience is death.

Yet what if the error that gives birth to this dead end and the numerous terminological absurdities—high Modernism, postmodernism, neo-Modernism, late Modernism, long and short centuries, the end of history, the contemporary—that are heir to it is to conceive of Modernism as a period in the first place? What if the thing erroneously called the “Modernist period” were instead a tendency that has periodically recurred throughout human history, in different times and places, further back than the Renaissance, further back even than fourth-century B.C. Greece, when Diogenes paid his call on the Oracle of Delphi? What if Modernism is the name for what happens to a culture whenever social, economic, political, and ecological conditions create a collapse in the general confidence in the sign and a segment of the society bands together to debauch the currency of the symbolic order by creating artifacts to match the times?

Not one Modernism but many Modernisms: all of them quotations of one another and all of them contemporaneous insofar as each produces the shimmering illusion of the new. The 100th anniversary of the annus mirabilis of 1922 offers not only the occasion to praise The Waste Land, but also the occasion to bury it, knowing that, if history is any guide, the corpse surrendered to the gardens of the past will inevitably sprout and bloom once more in the future. When April comes, we'll dig it up again.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The war over currency is but one front—along with traditionalism, nationalism, and energy—on the spectrum of current global conflicts. “You have to control three things: borders, currency, and military and national identity,” Steve Bannon said in 2017, speaking of his goals for the traditionalist fascist international. 260 The increasing confluence of anti-Fed zeal with private intelligence collection presents an unprecedented risk of capture for democracies. At the same time, recent interest rate increases by the Fed have likely done more to pop the crypto bubble and disprove theories about bitcoin as an inflation hedge or store of value than any regulation ever could. 261
But if January 6 or Putin’s war in Ukraine have taught us anything, it’s that even bad ideas likely to end in disaster still have their appeal, and much harm can be wrought in their pursuit. The reactionary quest to restore “hard money” is just as attractive today as it was in 1933, and we should expect that those committed to the cause will try everything in their power—including microtargeted ads, disinformation, insurrection, launching futile wars, capture of the opposition, and purchasing entire social networks 262 —to achieve their goal. The time has come to affirm our commitment to democracy over fascism and make serious, informed decisions about the future of money—in the full light of democratic oversight—before any more decisions are made for us through government capture, covert action, or violence.]]></description>
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    <title>Chartbook #163: Warfare without the state - New Keynesian shock therapy for Ukraine's home front.</title>
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    <title>Mini-budget scrapped: A simple guide to why plan was dropped - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-18T13:16:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Bank of England boss tells investors pensions help must end - BBC News</title>
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    <title>EU Ambassadors Annual Conference 2022: Opening speech by High Representative Josep Borrell | EEAS Website</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-11T11:13:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-ambassadors-annual-conference-2022-opening-speech-high-representative-josep-borrell_en</link>
    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our prosperity has been based on cheap energy coming from Russia. Russian gas – cheap and supposedly affordable, secure, and stable. It has been proved not [to be] the case. And the access to the big China market, for exports and imports, for technological transfers, for investments, for having cheap goods. I think that the Chinese workers with their low salaries have done much better and much more to contain inflation than all the Central Banks together.  

So, our prosperity was based on China and Russia – energy and market. Clearly, today, we have to find new ways for energy from inside the European Union, as much as we can, because we should not change one dependency for another. The best energy is the one that you produce at home. That will produce a strong restructuring of our economy – that is for sure. People are not aware of that but the fact that Russia and China are no longer the ones that [they] were for our economic development will require a strong restructuring of our economy.  

The access to China is becoming more and more difficult. The adjustment will be tough, and this will create political problems.  

On the other hand, we delegated our security to the United States. While the cooperation with the Biden Administration is excellent, and the transatlantic relationship has never been as good as it is today – [including] our cooperation with the United States and my friend Tony [Anthony] Blinken [US Secretary of State]: we are in a fantastic relationship and cooperating a lot; who knows what will happen two years from now, or even in November? What would have happened if, instead of [Joe] Biden, it would have been [Donald] Trump or someone like him in the White House? What would have been the answer of the United States to the war in Ukraine? What would have been our answer in a different situation? 

These are some questions that we have to ask ourselves. And the answer for me is clear: we need to shoulder more responsibilities ourselves. We have to take a bigger part of our responsibility in securing security. 

You - the United States - take care of our security. You - China and Russia – provided the basis of our prosperity. This is a world that is no longer there. 

Inside our countries, there is a radical shift, and the radical right is increasing in our democracies, democratically – it is the choice of the people, it is not an imposition from any power. It is the people who go and vote here and there. I am not going to blame anyone, but you have in mind what I am talking about. The radical right is increasing their grasp in European politics.   

So, we have a difficult cocktail – internal and external – and the old recipes do not work anymore. We have mounting security challenges and our internal cohesion is under threat. ]]></description>
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    <title>Out of control and rising: why bitcoin has Nigeria’s government in a panic | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian</title>
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    <title>Liz Truss says she wants ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech | Liz Truss | The Guardian</title>
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    <title>Adam Tooze: Is the British Economy Heading Toward Crisis?</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-04T09:57:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/30/british-economy-liz-truss-budget-currency-pound/</link>
    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AT: Yeah. This is among the more remarkable aspects of the current moment, actually, the alienation between the Tory party, which you would think of as, you know, the bastion of business interest in British politics, and the economic experts of the city of London.

It points to this deep structural break that goes back to 2016 and to the Brexit referendum. It was a Conservative government that called the referendum under David Cameron expecting to win for Remain. So the Tory party, the mainstream of the Tory party was Remain, because it’s clearly better for British business to be in the EU. And around the prime minister, there was a mobilization of both global and national expert opinion in favor of staying within the EU. And, of course, it was the Brexiteers that won. And ever since, the Brexit wing of the Tory party have been in this sort of boisterous refusal of economic gravity.

The striking thing about Truss and Kwarteng is you wouldn’t necessarily think of them as simply populist, because they’re kind of elite conservatives. So it’s really strange. It’s not so much populism, I think—it’s kind of a kind of cosplay Thatcherism. And the city’s just calling their bluff and saying, “Look, we’re not kidding around. This is not a pantomime. If you do this, it will not actually add up. And we cannot at that level, you know, we can’t hold the pound, and we can’t hold the U.S. Treasury paper at the kind of interest rates you’re offering. Wake up, smell the coffee, get real.”]]></description>
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    <title>Government is undercutting UK institutions, says former Bank governor - BBC News</title>
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    <title>This is Truss and Kwarteng’s crisis, not yours – but you’re already a lot poorer because of them | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Even after all the Tories’ efforts to wreck standards in public life, one assumes consequences will follow. At the very least, I can’t see how Kwarteng can stick around to deliver the next budget, due in a few weeks. But there are more profound issues here. Truss got into power with almost zero scrutiny from the political-media class. Countless MPs swallowed their scruples and backed a woman they knew was wrong but assumed would win. The Conservative membership showed all the interrogative skill of a flock of sheep, and much of the press focused more on her Instagram profile than her policies.

The checks and balances that stood between us and this national humiliation failed. And for what? The Saga-going classes, on whom the Tories depend for their core vote, will find their foreign holidays are now vastly more expensive. The hard-pressed, heavily mortgaged families who read the Mail have just been landed in further debt by the woman their newspaper chose to be prime minister. And the BBC, which duly puts on the Institute for Economic Affairs and the rest on its news programmes, stands once again guilty of pretending corporately funded know-nothings are “economic experts”. This is not just a moment of reckoning for the people in charge of our democracy: it is a moment to recognise just how dangerously corroded our democratic institutions are.

That’s not what the Tories, the rightwing press and the lobotomised thinktanks want. They’re already pushing for spending cuts by November, and for the next two years to be about austerity, dismantling the NHS and squeezing those on social security. If Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are suckered into this as the “sound money” politics they promised this week, that turns the next election into the party of the small state versus the party of the even smaller state.

A country in which you can’t see a GP for months and your mum can’t get an operation for years, where the beaches have been covered with sewage and the trains don’t work, is not one that can stand another round of spending cuts. And an economy that relies on imports and debt to get by needs investment and redistribution, not more of the same old policy slop. Even the winners in the UK today live a worse life than their counterparts in Europe. They drive their Audis over potholed roads to drop their kids off at overcrowded schools, then go home to wonder how they’ll pay their groceries and energy bills.

This is their crisis, not ours. You didn’t benefit from these big tax cuts, the Tory donors did. Truss can reverse her stupid, cynical budget, resign, and force a general election – and Labour should demand she does so.]]></description>
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    <title>The Complete Argument Against Crypto</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-19T16:34:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/complete.html</link>
    <dc:creator>petej</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Speculative investment tokens present as almost indistinguishable from multilevel marketing schemes16 (MLM) in which early participants are encouraged to recruit into the scheme to recover their losses and create exit liquidity for a massively negative-sum game that can only ever pay out a tiny fraction of early insiders. Thus the scheme requires the construction of a socially corrosive culture of “hodl”ing these hot potato investments under the veneer of either phony populism17, predatory inclusion and appeals to wealth generation for marginalized individuals, or the creation of a self-organizing high control group18 which artificially creates demand and maintains an environment where inflows into the scheme are synthetically warped to exceed outflows.

These speculative tokens have no future. They are indistinguishable from digital multilevel marketing schemes and differ only in that they wrap themselves in impenetrable technical and financial obscurantism19, libertarian politics20, techno-solutionism21, and empty appeals to the inevitability of some imagined hyper financialized future which can never be realized because of the internal contradictions the technologies are built on22. This all serves as a cover for post hoc rationalization of investing in this toxic asset class built purely on the theory of the greater fool and for cartels of insiders to enrich themselves by defrauding the public at a mass scale using historically-banned financial scams and opaque market making23.

The ideas and implications of widespread public crypto use are all terrible and are making the world a worse place29. These are not problems that can be fixed with newer or shinier future software technology. These are intractable problems baked into the design of every possible permissionless blockchain network that attempts to be a solution for private money or an investment.

The theoretical upsides of every crypto project are entirely illusory30, it is a solution in search of a problem and its very foundations are predicated on logical contradictions and software architectural flaws that cannot be resolved. And conversely, the downsides of all of crypto’s externalities are massive and become more pronounced every day it is allowed to continue to exist. It is a project that from a purely utilitarian perspective can never not create more net suffering than good by its very design. Crypto is like an evil genie that only fulfills neoliberal grifters’ darkest wishes, and this genie needs to be put back in the bottle because it is an abomination.

There is no golden path possible with crypto. Every future where it succeeds can only lead to one of various anarcho-capitalist or techno-feudalistic hells. A complete rejection of the entirety of the cryptocurrency project is the only intellectually defensible position left.]]></description>
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    <title>What happens when a major economy can’t pay its debts in dollars? Russia is about to show us | Adam Tooze | The Guardian</title>
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