The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.
shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.
about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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坎布里奇—俄罗斯入侵乌克兰,又与西方大搞核对峙,让关于核武器的争论再度兴盛。去年,联合国禁止核武器条约完全生效,世界上九个拥核国家没有一个名列86个签署国。这些国家如何证明拥有可能摧毁全人类的武器是合理的?
这是一个切题的问题,但必须与另一个问题一起考虑:如果美国签署该条约并摧毁自己的武器库,它是否仍然能够阻止俄罗斯在欧洲的进一步侵略?如果答案是否定的,那么还必须考虑核战争是否不可避免。
这不是一个新问题。 1960 年,英国科学家和小说家 斯诺(C.P. Snow)认为十年内爆发核战争是“数学上的确定性”。这可能有些夸张,但许多人认为,如果战争在一个世纪内发生,斯诺的预测就算得到印证。在 1980 年代,海伦·卡尔迪科特(Helen Caldicott)等核冻结运动者呼应斯诺的观点,警告说核武器的积累“将使核战争成为数学上的确定性”。
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