UNEXPECTEDLY:
● Fawlty Towers DVD Sales Soar After Woke Cancellation.
Earlier: Buy Physical Media.
UPDATE: The List of Movies and TV Blacklisted By the Woke Taliban… So Far.
China’s Consumers Increasing the Price of Provoking the Dragon
Australia’s governments, businesses and media have accorded inadequate attention to the power of the Chinese consumer when picking fights with Beijing.
System of blind spots (review) Ann Pettifor, Times Literary Supplement. An entertaining look at several books on financial fraud.
The Macroeconomics Of Degrowth Steve Keen, Econintersect
Making a Planet Worth Saving Biill McKibben, The New Yorker. Of 350.org. Another view of NGOs
‘Resilient’ subprime borrowers spread cheer in US debt markets FT. That’s nice.
The Looming Bank Collapse The Atlantic. Real economy chickens coming home to roost in the financial economy? The chicken in question, however, is the CLO. See Yves here in May 2020 when the FT ran the same story: She was dubious.
Court to consider high-stakes tobacco fightFlorida Politics (Alex).
An Internet of Trouble lies ahead as root certificates begin to expire en masse, warns security researcher The Register. “Some IoT devices such as security systems or lighting systems do make secure internet connections to enable remote control and reporting, but have no visual user interface, which could leave users perplexed as to why they no longer work.” Oh.
Yeast of our worries: Marmite supplies hit by Covid-19 beer brewing slowdownGuardian
BORIS JOHNSON SAYS ATTACKING STATUES IS ‘LYING ABOUT OUR HISTORY.’
As they say on Airstrip One, “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future.”