Interesting stuff

  1. Read: The rise of the unregulated “lifecoach” industry
  2. Read: Smart: “Housing activists, officials and researchers are deploying new tools to empower tenants, spotlight negligent property owners and curb evictions in U.S. cities.
  3. Read: It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”“So who were these silent conformists? Gloria Steinem, Muhammad Ali, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Noam Chomsky, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Martin Luther King, Jr., Billie Jean King, Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Berry Gordy, Amiri Baraka, Ken Kesey, Huey Newton, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol . . . Sorry, am I boring you? It was people like these, along with even older folks, like Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Pauli Murray, who were active in the culture and the politics of the nineteen-sixties. Apart from a few musicians, it is hard to name a single major figure in that decade who was a baby boomer. But the boomers, most of whom were too young then even to know what was going on, get the credit (or, just as unfairly, the blame).”
  4. Read: Inflation is back: The US hit 5.9% (annualised)
  5. Read: The thorny truth about socially responsible investing (it’s not)
  6. Watch: Container homes are a terrible idea
  7. Watch: The story of oil (and how we got climate change, 50 years after we saw it coming)
  8. Read: “Time millionaires” are enjoying life more than pursuing money. Related: The 9.9% (upper middle class) who are simultaneously harming themselves and destroying the world in their quest to “stay on top.”
  9. Read: Is the Democratic Party’s tail (woke college elites) wagging the dog (the median voter)? That would explain how they barely beat T**p. Related (and very interesting) read: Hungary’s anti-gay laws are not nearly as dangerous as the EU’s attempt to force the country to wokeness.
  10. Listen: Energy, capital and commodity markets are disrupting each other

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Author: David Zetland

I'm a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam.

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