Plato's Cave: Economic and Media Analysis in a Dark Time

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• Nov. 16 2025 Democrats Cave, but did they lose? Republicans Dither on Medical Costs and Epstein Files. Suing the BBC as Kabuki 16.11.2025
• The Fed Stymied, Senators find a Spine, Amazon and Google Sell Out 03.11.2025
• Gaza Peace-Really? 26.10.2025
• Economic Update: Who has some data? Magical Thinking in Policy 12.10.2025
• The faltering economy, invading Portland, and frightening comedy of the absurd by Trump and his minions 05.10.2025
• A Tariff Revenues Controversy. Governor Newsom's irony and an audience devoid of humor. More Tibits on Corruption and Predictive Guilt and Sentencing 30.08.2025
• Trumps wants to fire another economist and Scary Predictive Policing 22.08.2025
• Lies, Statistics, and the Palantir's Founders Film plans to make right-wing propaganda films--everything old is new again 15.08.2025
• Lying about and with Statistics and the Attack on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and independent news 08.08.2025
• Corruption at the FCC and Losing our [best] Minds 02.08.2025
• Harvard v Trump administration: You can't fix stupid. 25.07.2025
• The ACLU injunctions success. And "ICE, ICE, Baby!": The labor market , agriculture, and due process under attack. 18.07.2025
• How the Big Bad Bill actually effect Social Security taxes and tips: Or why in the heck am I paying more, rather than less taxes? July 11, 2025 15.07.2025
• Bond Yields: Is the sky falling? (June Episode) 15.07.2025