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 Many years ago upon finishing William Greider's seminal history of the Federal Reserve, banking, and money, Secrets of the Temple, I thought to myself, “Oh man, it's all much more ridiculous than I imagined.” Years later in conversation I said to Bill, “That book
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Subscribe now Money is a mere representation. At all times money is fundamentally a matter of faith. Despite every entry on every account ledger, all money’s value requires faith. As with all matters of faith, discussions about the nature of money quickly get squishy. This in no way diminishes
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Subscribe now (Continued from Silicon Valley Bank) I gotta be honest sisters and brothers, I never thought back in ‘08 they could reflate the whole financial bubble, but they did, with a vengeance. After a couple years, the question became what would happen when the Fed tried to tighten? That
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Subscribe now I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I found myself nostalgic for 2008 this morning. Remember a lot of the big fails on a Friday were followed by weekend meetings and the bestowing of innumerous largesse before markets opened Monday
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Subscribe now Nothing better shows, well OK really there's plenty, the bankruptcy of American politics than the once again empty threat of fiscal rebels in DC to quit paying the bills. Oxymoronically, the US Treasury writes the debt ceiling or debt limit “allows the government to finance existing
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An inability to reform
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Subscribe now (Continued from Part II) * Blue - APC Tinubu - 8,794,726 (36%) * Green - PDP Atiku - 6,984,520 (29%) * Red - LP Obi - 6,101,533 (25%) * Grey - NNPP Kwankwaso - 1,496,687 (6%) Last Saturday's Nigerian election results are
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Subscribe now (Continued from part I) About ten days out, the president's guy running our effort, who I wished had a much greater role in the entire campaign, sent me to Lagos to meet the senator who was running the PDP's efforts and talk to him
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Subscribe now After the 2004 Dean campaign, Trippi would ask me to do other campaigns. I'd refuse. The only reason I participated in that campaign was because I was so disgusted and angry at the criminally stupid Iraq war. For the previous dozen years, I hadn't
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They made hypocrite judgements after the fact But the name of the game is be hit and hit back So hurry home early, hurry on home Boom-Boom Mancini’s fighting Bobby Chacon Subscribe now Historian and novelist Gore Vidal wrote several decades ago, “The late Murray Kempton once noted that
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Subscribe now The Wall Street Journal has a piece on real politics in this third decade of the 21st century, showing first and foremost we have yet to barely grapple with the environmental challenges caused by industrialism. Industrial thinking completely dominates every aspect of the processes, thinking, and structure of
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Subscribe now (Continued from Göbeklitepe I) Göbeklitepe interacted with at least a dozen other sites in the immediate area. This whole area has come to be known as “Tas Tepeler” - Turkish for stone hills. “It is a fact that both Göbeklitepe and other settlements were sites part of an