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Now that would be exciting! Haven't had one of those in my 57 years.

Rapid modernization in the last remaining second and third world countries is going to mean birth rates simply grind to a halt within about 20 years tops. We're not going to get anywhere near 2080 before we start shrinking in total population size.

Tom Murphy agrees with you. The UN projections have a kink which is not really justified. If you continue the current trends instead population will peak as soon as 10 years out, depending on some other assumptions.

No spending comes from taxes. Tax money is destroyed. All spending is done by issuing new money. That is the correct answer to the OP's question.

I just mean the quote in your sig is misattributed.

The New Deal has been deliberately dismantled over the last 40 years. They call it Socialism, I would call it Social Democracy.

Upton Sinclair not Sinclair Lewis.

Fingerprints have not been shown (cannot be shown?) to be unique. Compounding this problem is that, at least sometimes (I remember a UK case where the police were trying to frame a fellow policewoman), fingerprints are examined for similarities only. Differences are ignored.

Huawei is worker owned so they will take a very different view of labour 'costs' than most Capitalist enterprises.

You're at 5 Insightful so I'm going to push back a little.

The vaccines were ~90% effective at 'preventing serious illness' from the original strains. That has declined. They were mumble-mumble % effective at preventing transmission. That has probably not improved.

Since the latter is what eradicates viruses, vaccinating everyone is not going to be adequate.

From page 41 of the NGFS report:

There are a number of reasons to suggest that these are underestimates of the
potential risks. Although some studies capture non-linearities in biophysical
processes as temperatures increase, few fully capture the potential risks of
tipping points accelerating global warming. Studies that have assessed the
potential impacts from tipping points on policy responses find that emissions
prices should be up to eight times higher.

The article has fewer details than the summary. Is it my browser settings?

Not seeing the BoJ in the list of parties. A proper digital currency essentially allows anyone to have a reserve account at the central bank. That would cut all these other operations out of the loop.

Since that does not seem to be what is being proposed it looks to me like the banks are trying to forestall such from happening.

"The people" never had power nor were they meant to. The constitution was designed to keep power in the hands of the landowners, not the king's and certainly not ordinary folk's.

Libertarianism was sold with the myths you describe but it is a corporate mindfuck intended to persuade people to allow corporations to usurp power from the (nominally democratic) government. The end being a new Feudalism. Hans-Herman Hoppe is quite open about this. If you are not a lord you will be a serf.

That is what it is to a small set of wealthy people who've hijacked the ideology.

A small set of wealthy people invented the ideology: FEE

The Atlantic Council is a Public Relations / propaganda / disinformation outfit.

The whole point of this study is that this particular prognostication (The Limits to Growth model) is found to be right so far, with 50 years of data to compare. This is not good news.

The 80s showed us we can do anything? That kind of delusion is going to be the end of us.

There is no plausible explanation as to why this anti parasite drug would have any effect on viruses.

There's this.

I can't really judge its plausibility, but it made it into a serious journal.