and worse it would provide 1 meal a day to those 42 million... not solving their hunger but keeping them from death or organ deterioration from starvation at best. A good solution would cost... twice as much? add medicine?

858 million are hungry in the world they say, and I believe them. Really things like massive canals, energy farms and other big projects would make lasting dent in world hunger. The cost might be trillion or over but that's being realistic at least. We could have tariffs on all well-off countries, that might be a solution that works. tariffs on stock and etf trades the world over, that might be another solution.

utter nonsense, there is no way $7.25 for each of the 828 million living in hunger would help in any meaningful way. there is no credible plan in that price range. The World Food Program you make a claim about said it would cost $40 billion per YEAR, that I believe.

The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.

I was thinking the same thing. It must have a whole raft of licensing fees on it. If the price keeps enough people out of the market for it then these will turn out to be some of the most valuable minifigs of all time. I wonder what it costs if you buy the same pieces (less the figures) via parts orders.

Are you expressing a mood? What if we tested your mood and it turned out to be just your own projection?

When will they use AI to figure out how to recirculate the water and even get energy from the heat generated?

What if we the people demanded Cost Of Living Adjustments because we reject Paul Volcker's irrational hate for them?

Can we completely detach asset markets from the real economy so the greedy rich have a sandbox to play in while the rest of us live in the real world unaffected by their panics?

For "occasionally", do you mean "most of the time"? Who's regulating derivative markets, and do they create well-intentioned unintended consequences because regulators don't really understand what's happening?

If Zoltan Poszar is right that "shadow banking begins where M2 ends", by how much does privately-created money dwarf public money?

Don't pilots usually train and certify on just one type of aircraft? In other words, Airbus pilots don't fly Boeing, etc. If all the MD11 planes end up permanently mothballed by the two main operators of them (FedEx and UPS), what happens to the pilots who are trained to fly them? Will they have an opportunity to train on another aircraft type, or will they end up without a job? Are there other planes sufficiently similar to the MD11 that their training won't be too lengthy? Wikipedia mentions it last flew for passenger service in 2008, but doesn't mention it having been developed into anything else.

Of course it doesn't seem like this is a great time to be a pilot, given the ATC issues we're facing in this country - but that's a different issue.

Can I recommend Perry Mehrling's "Economics of Money and Banking" to explain how banks create money out of thin air ("the alchemy of banking") and the Fed easily has the power to backstop all that private money creation in a panic?

https://www.coursera.org/learn...

See what eating meat does to you?

If you look at a Sankey diagram of US energy production and consumption, will you too see that residential electricity usage is less than 15% of total electricity demand? So does data center usage only represent a 5% increase in demand, which given the 10% electricity generation surplus shown on eia.gov's energy facts explained page, is totally doable given current production?

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/si...

https://www.eia.gov/energyexpl...

So is this panic over electricity supply wildly overblown, a pure hallucination meant to push emotional scarcity buttons in you so utility commissions can administer higher rates and the public will go along meekly?

Do the bottom 90% even have enough money that the rich want it, or can they make ten times tbat amount just by investing in the fictitious goods of stock markets, while we get a basic income to satisfy our basic physical needs?

When the Fed prints money to buy sinking assets, does any taxpayer get debited? In 2020 when the Fed increased base, high-powered money by 40%, and inflation only briefly touched 9%, does that show printing money is a net gain?