A mesmerising, almost incomprehensibly perfect spiral, engraved with a possum incisor hafted to a bone shaft, on the slate surface of an Aboriginal churinga representing the Janpanga possum totem. Stone churinga like this are complex graphical representations of the Dreamtime. 1/

Printed in Korea in 1377, 78 years before Gutenberg, this is the world's oldest known book printed with movable metal type. Known by its abbreviated name of "Jikji", only a single copy of one volume of the original 2 vol edition survives, and is held today by Bibliothèque BnF in Paris. 1/

Here’s what’s probably the strategy behind Trump’s tariffs, and it’s not as crazy as it might seem: - Trump sees China as the only real competitor to the US. He believes that if the US keeps doing business the same way it has been, it’ll eventually lose its top spot. - So, Trump

King $US is dead. Call it regicide. The killing of the goose that was laying the golden eggs. And the ramifications still escape public policy makers, analysts and market participants in general as the Sunami approaches.

does this mean it's RIP for MMT?

4. The twist in the lot that we visited in Colorado is that homeless people applying to park here need to show a local pay stub. Put another way, for the right to live out of cars in the subzero weather, those hoping to park here need to prove they are productive members of the

High concentration of income from capital with a Gini coefficient of 0.93.

Further evidence that Ivy League MBA students prefer greater income inequality and are less likely to appreciate meritocracy. docs.iza.org/dp17788.pdf

points 1-8 took place before biden resided in the white house; please continue explaining

JPMorgan scrutinizes US public debt and veers away from its CEO's frequent statements to say there is no real problem because household wealth is growing faster. Is a wealth tax the logical next step? privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/insight…

The intent is to restore buffalo on the land and challenge the link between animal and product, shares grist. buff.ly/Vuf45s8

I think that the popularity of Gramsci (or at least of citing Gramsci) comes from the intellectualization of the left's defeat. In some sense, he is a prophet of defeat.

Agamben: "la degradazione dei sistemi in cui viviamo è pensabile senza che questa assuma necessariamente la forma di una catastrofe" (the degradation of the systems in which we live can thinkably happen without necessarily taking the form of a catastrophe) quodlibet.it/giorgio-agambe…

Names of European countries in Māori

This just out from sidecar. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

"Feudalism isn’t an outmoded Dark Ages relic. Rather, it’s the natural state of play when nothing is new—when all the resources are known and predictable and the only asset is the raw power to control them." discoursemagazine.com/p/the-last-gol…

won't lower house prices fix this?

a 250 million $ trade deficit seems like a rounding error. i guess it's a mistake. so many mistakes..!

Distribution of lighthouses in Africa

i thought it was "e pluribus unum" on an expanding scale, not indentured servant imports. was i naive or did i miss something?