By Lambert Strether. Readers, my head cold continues, as does my whinging. Ugh. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Davidson College–Main Campus, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States. “Country diary: A bird that had existed only in my imagination...
We know that correlation does not necessarily mean causation. But sometimes you gotta wonder, especially as Mr. Trump’s administration is busily dismantling the CIA. First, GW Bush ignore the PDB of August 8, 2001, on “Bin Laden determined to strike...
The gleeful thuggery that ICE deploys in its mass deportation efforts is degrading, not just to the evacuees and Americans generally. And as we’ll soon see, ICE has been playing Internet games to make its migrant-rousting seem vastly more pervasive...
Yves here. Hubert Horan below explains how the narrative/propaganda-driven strategy of Uber, as opposed to one based on creating fundamental economic value, was essentially the same as the one pursued by the Democratic party in the Harris campaign. Tony West...
An elusive California mammal has just been photographed alive for the first time SFGATE. The Spined Democrat? Delta and Japan Airlines planes collide at Seattle Airport Daily Mail. ‘Tis a mystery! The birth of naturalism Aeon The Collapse of Ego...
Are we in a trade war today? Who knows? Doesn’t really matter. It’s always a good time to review important principles. A good source is Doug Irwin’s Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy published in 1996. Below I have updated...
Yves here. This post gives a clean, elegant explanation as to why AI looks almost destined to be deployed to more and more important decisions in financial institutions, particularly on the trading side, so as to virtually insure dislocations. Recall...
Covered for difference prices as reported by TradingEconomics is jumping up to $7/dozen for January. Figure 1: PPI for eggs (black, left scale), price dozen eggs (blue, right scale), ERS forecast (light blue square), covered for difference dozen eggs (tan,...
Yves here. While many of you were busy losing your mind over Trump’s smash and grabs, the world continued to cook. Tom Neuburger, who has kept his eye on the climate change ball, chronicles how the relentless rise in temperatures...
By Lambert Strether. Readers, I awoke with an especially nasty head cold yesterday, which I am still fighting today, so this Water Cooler will end when I creep back to bed, there to drink plenty of fluids. –lambert Bird Song...
