Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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Subscribe now The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the
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Subscribe now "This is not like the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ,” Gensler (SEC Chair) said. "There's just a handful of lending platforms and a handful of so-called exchanges which commingle. It's [a] toxic combination where they take people's money, they
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Subscribe now Delphi was the most sacred city of Ancient Greece. The Greeks considered Delphi the center of the earth. It is spectacularly situated half-way up a mountain, looking down a narrow valley widening into the Gulf of Corinth. Directly behind, rising a thousand feet, tower steep granite cliffs colored
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Subscribe now Massive amounts of money, resources, and blood circle the drain in Ukraine. It would serve well to understand the Russia of today, most importantly how Putin rose to the top. It's always fraught with problems to begin history at a specific point, but to in anyway
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Subscribe now Mycenae is a historic and legendary city of Greece. Inhabited since 5000 BC, its glory years spanned 1600 to 1100 BC. This late Bronze Age Mycenaean civilization stretched across the Greek mainland. It's influence on the Greek civilization that followed, between 800 and 400 BC, mostly
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Subscribe now Last year, Caleb Scharf authored a book, The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm, perfectly illustrating an important contemporary conundrum: specialized technologies quickly derived from new scientific insights lack much of the underlying science's larger understandings. This creates significant
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Subscribe now You hear a lot about financial market volatility, but not enough about political volatility. Take for example the UK, who are about to have their third Prime Minister in two months, add financial volatility to the middle of the mix. Good thing new PM Sunak is ex-Goldman and
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Subscribe now A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was looking to get out of the election campaign game. I had just ran a Congressional race and it left a very bad taste about the future. It was a quick run, mostly consisting of spending a
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Subscribe now "It has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression,... that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is in the constitution of the Federal Judiciary--an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day,
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Subscribe now Two recent pieces report the leverage troubles pressing the financial world. This situation is brought about largely in reaction to the leverage crisis of 2008, where nothing was really done beyond central banks dumping a whole bunch of money into the system to paper-over, (that’s an anachronism!
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Subscribe now Some people, not nearly enough, are offended by the gerontocracy running America. Me, I've become a better American over the years, learning to ignore who's wielding the pike and who's getting stuck. Occasionally, I'm still entertained. Take for example the
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Subscribe now “Nearly every age and stage of culture has at some time or other sought with profound irritation to free itself from the Greeks, because in their presence everything one has achieved oneself, though apparently quite original and sincerely admired, suddenly seemed to lose life and color and shriveled