Yves here. While the exhortation to have all doctors receive some nutrition training sounds all well and good, perhaps the advocates should take a look at what passes for nutrition science and get back to me. There is painfully little...
Yves here. This post provides a tidy kneecapping of big Pharma whinging about being subjected to price restrictions. The even shorter version of what follows is that drug prices and health care generally are not market goods. People will pay...
Yves here. Yours truly hates to sound like a broken record, but the de-dollarization enthusiasts are way ahead of the state of play and near-term prospects. Yes, dollar primacy is on its way out due to the US size relative...
Yves here. Yours truly has been under-reporting in Links the number and severity of bad climate change effect stories, since if I did merely a pretty good job, they would eat up all of Links. On top of record heat...
Previous counts put Trump fiscal promises at (at least) $4 trillion over ten years, compared to Harris $1.7 trillion (or Economist $3 trillion vs $1.4 trillion). Now, let’s place Trump tax cuts at a cost of $11 trillion…From “Trump Dangles...
Are you teaching international economics next spring? Or just want to learn more about the field? Consider adopting/purchasing this new textbook, by myself and Douglas Irwin (available around December 2024, from Cambridge University Press). Endorsements from Avinash Dixit, Barry Eichengreen,...
PBoC and financial regulators act, but even with fiscal measures underway, are unlikely to drastically change the path of the economy. As summarized by Bloomberg: To me, it’s curious it took so long, then followed by a flurry of activity...
Bird Song of the Day Sage Thrasher, Elko, Nevada, United States. “Songs from a bird perched on the tops of short juniper trees.” * * * In Case You Might Miss… The state of the electoral college. Trump turning populist...
As many commentators have noted, Israel’s exploding pager/walkie-talkie attacks, followed by air strikes on a Hezbollah command post and then broadly across Lebanon are a gambit to try to get Lebanon to respond in a manner that would get the...
