quicklime

You may find this whole site interesting, it returns often to various angles on the pitfalls of QE and of the economic trends that led up to it.

Dr. Tim Morgan | Surplus Energy Economics

What I’ve linked there is his summary or introduction page, but all of his semi weekly economics blog posts are very engaging.

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well said!

Remember when this same moment came in 2016 and everybody was pretty sure there would be a real public reckoning and introspection in and around the DNC… like maybe even public soul searching and apologies. And then the successor chosen for outgoing chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schulz turned out to be Tom Perez. More or less slamming the door on learning anything, and doubling down on punching down and punching left.

upvoting for well articulated nuance

I don’t know what your definition of “working” is here, but he’s been conning, grifting, and cheating in real estate all his life for sure.

Surely the GOP could come up with a younger, more vigorous candidate who could lie at least sixty times per hour. That’s gotta be like some kind of basic minimum.

Yes! And businessmen are always the best people to run a government because governments and all their services should be run for maximum profit and no other purpose!

We’ll find someone, I’m sure.

Could we make it Uranus?

He’s not worth the fuel cost :\

I can’t afford fast food anymore. This article must be about the vanishing middle class and above.

pretty sure the other replies missed the satire

and that’s just the psych side. It’s blatantly obvious that in terms of physical health he has one and a half feet in the grave.

I don’t understand who’s downvoting this article, except for maybe those who didn’t read it and are only downvoting the headline.

If anyone’s downvoting it after actually reading the whole piece, I wonder what they found objectionable about it.

Remember, though, that it is currently profitable to reform hydrogen out of methane, at the same time as it’s not profitable to contain and sell ‘byproduct’ hydrogen. There are sure to be reasons why, and they might be fairly durable reasons that don’t change much even as the demand for hydrogen increases. I’m no expert on this so I won’t speculate too much on what those reasons might be – maybe factors related to scale and logistics?

I’m pretty sure the basic thermodynamics of it are against truly green hydrogen production ever becoming cheaper than the dirty business of producing it by reforming methane from natural gas, unless basically all fossil fuel subsidies are someday cancelled – or else after the energy cost of energy gets so high (in other words, the energy return on energy invested falls so low) that it’s no longer practical to extract fossil fuel from the ground regardless of price or any other economic factor; – but by that point in the future, that same scarcity will have permanently crashed the world economy thus humanity will already be in forced deindustrialization. I could go on…

Turns out Kennedy too was more of a turd than most people suspected at the time. Not in the same league with your list, but still a real mess once you know enough about him.

Please forgive my trifling quibble, but isn’t that the Intermountain West (which is rarely if ever described broadly as progressive), not the Pacific Northwest – since you were east of the Cascade range?

Every single day I get a yucky feeling when I remember that people are still using his garbage website/app/platform.