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.
“My friends, whoever has experienced disaster understands that when a wave of trouble breaks over mortal men, they are inclined to be afraid of everything, and then, when good fortune blows their way once more, they start believing that this same good luck will keep on blowing them success forever.
FT headlines this morning: "Morgan Stanley and Cliffwater limit private credit withdrawals" "Investment fund questions valuations in Blue Owl’s private credit portfolio" "Partners Group sounds alarm on private credit default rates" And "Goldman executive says private markets clients ‘glad’ about Iran war
"Woe unto you hypocrites! You travel sea and land to make one convert, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." The bankruptcy of the American political class happened slowly, then all at once. Today, one of our always far
As I walk through this wicked world Looking for light in the darkness of insanity I ask myself is all hope lost? Is there only pain, hatred, and misery? As I walk on through troubled times My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes Where are the strong? Who are the trusted?
Just step sideways from this place today Don't let it beat ya Don't let it whip ya Just step right round this futurist world today The world’s definitely turning faster these days. Jesse Jackson left the building. The whites in Chicago always disliked him, for
L’affaire Epstein continues to roil the political world. The NYT has an article titled, or is it entitled, “The Epstein Files and the Hidden World of an Unaccountable Elite.” Now, that’s rich. The entirely unaccountable NYT, vice unmatched, pointing fingers at their readers. They should provide a list
De heathen back dey, on de wall SUBSCRIBE I don’t usually recommend reading the NYT, but there’s a good piece about the Security State in the Age of Nixon, though despite Bob Dole’s tear-filled requiem, there never really was an Age of Nixon. The piece concerns
After years trying to define the politics of technology, I recently came upon a one sentence definition by Simone Weil, “The detail of the individual destiny of the machine-worker fades into insignificance before the science, the tremendous natural forces and the collective labor which are incorporated in the machines
Over the last half-century, it’s become clear that not just the American system, but modern republicanism that spread across the globe from America’s founding is failing. A new book by Helene Landemore, Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule offers incredibly valuable thinking on how we
Sinead had some animal spirits, but it's a term more associated with economics, capitalism to be exact. John Maynard Keynes wrote about animal spirits in his 1936 book, The General Theory of Money, Interest, and Employment. Keynes knew a lot about money, unlike say money innovator Satoshi Nakamoto,
Monday night at operations control I sat facing rows of monitor mountains Mind control Life control Operation Mind Control It is no accident American politics and just as clearly global politics offer little insight for our times. Contemporary politics are archaic, maybe at best anachronistic, not of the era. Less
SUBSCRIBE ‘Cet esprit de mensonge et d’ erreur—De la chute des rois funeste avantcoureur’ (This spirit of lies and error—a fatal herald of the fall of kings), which Racine spoke about, is today no longer the monopoly of sovereigns. It embraces all classes of the population; it takes