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Joe Costello

27 Jul 2023
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“Fight the real enemy.”

God love Sinead O’Connor

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Economy This and That

Here comes the daylight, here comes my job Uptown in the penthouse or downtown with the mob Here comes the nighttime, here comes my role Goodbye to the pavement, hello to my soul Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. Looking at the

lock-1 By Joe Costello 01 Aug 2025

Yellowstone and Complexity

Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE I always liked the term ecology opposed to environment. I suppose it comes from my youth. My first semester at the University of Arizona, I was a Wildlife Ecology major. In my first class, I

lock-1 By Joe Costello 28 Jul 2025

Leverage upon Leverage upon Leverage

Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is without exception a small variation on an established design, one that owes its distinctive character to the aforementioned brevity of the financial memory. The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over

lock-1 By Joe Costello 25 Jul 2025

Money & Energy

The “money question” passed out of American politics essentially through self-censorship. This result, quite simply, was a product of cultural intimidation. In its broader implications, however, the silencing of debate about “concentrated capital” betrayed a fatal loss of nerve on the part of those who, during Populism, dared to

lock-1 By Joe Costello 23 Jul 2025
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