Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Links 9/2/2025

UK Consumer Study Sounds Alarm About Security Risks of Mobile Wallets

As the problem of digital bank fraud grows, one issue that will become increasingly heated is who should pay for it.

Trump’s Appellate Court Tariff Loss: It Isn’t Over Until the Fat Lady Sings

Trump is likely to win his retaliatory tariff battle at the Supreme Court and even if not, he’s too fond of this bludgeon to give it up.

The Destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

A detalied history of the two incarnations of Yugoslavia and how the state unraveled.

Coffee Break: Gavin Newsom Weaponizes ‘Dark Woke’ Cringe Against Trump

California Governor Gavin Newsom is using a cringe-worthy “dark woke” approach to counter President Trump on social media that is getting positive poll results.

Links 9/1/2025

Farcical Visions of Competitiveness in the EU

What will stop these maniacs first? A popular revolt putting them in padded cells or Russian strikes?  

Book Review: This Is Your Brain On Nature

In “Nature and the Mind,” Marc Berman uses neuroscience to show how interacting with nature benefits mental health.

Fed Governor Lisa Cook v. Trump: “That Mortgage Document Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says”

More on the holes in the Trump allegations that Fed governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud.

Links 8/31/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Necromancy (1972) Run Time: 1H 24M

Necromancy is a movie about a young woman’s encounter with a coven of witches.

Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day

Are protests alone enough to confront the billionaires?

Links 8/30/2025

Michael Hudson: How Lenders Sought and Got Power in the Roman Era and Helped Legitimate Later Rentierism

Michael Hudson recaps the long history of limits on lenders’ rights for the benefit of society and how the Roman era was an inflection point

Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland

Case studies of Armenia, Vietnam and Poland as countries that re-emerged after conquest. What set them apart?