Yves here. I hate to be a curmudgeon, but people’s private practices are and should remain their own business. And I take a dimmer view of companies trying to promote particular types of behavior, even when they sound benign, like...
After campaigning on not wanting to start or escalate kinetic wars, Trump looks to be trying to compensate for US military weakness (as in inability to seriously beat up anyone bigger than an insurgency) by launching a massive, multi-front economic...
What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World Lit Hub Why Does February (Usually) Have 28 Days? Conversable Economist Climate/Environment After wildfires, what distance are extra precautions a good idea to protect against smoke, soot,...
Conor here: Richard Murphy highlights a problem across most of the “rules-based order” world. What do readers think? If you look at the upward flow of wealth in recent decades, perhaps politicians are plenty skilled to accomplish their true goal....
to you know what (apologies to Abrahams and the Zuckers). In one day, US taxes roughly $2.4 trn worth of goods (2023 amounts). Biggest one year tax increase in dollar terms since… ever, at $364 bn (if Trump goes through...
The Most Important Corporate Subsidy Battle of 2025 Boondoggle Climate/Environment Records show Big Sugar lobbyists are working on plans for an Everglades-area mine Seeking Rents Threats and killings increase in the area where agribusiness expands in the Amazon rainforest Brasil...
Germans will go to the polls in less than a month after the collapse of the hapless government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The German economy is in an awful state with no reason for hope on the horizon. There are...
Conor here: The 2026 and 2028 to see who can deliver more for the oligarchs for Congress and the presidency are underway. Democrats of course don’t have any problem with Trump’s “anti-union offensive” or putting out a big bucket that...
Should’a bought that EV! Joseph Brusuelas notes tariffs should show up in gas prices in the Midwest pretty quick. Source: Brusuelas (2025). Current price is about $3/gallon. Source: EIA. If the current price of petroleum (WTI) is $73.51. An increase...
I was pondering whether the US is a large country insofar as tariffs on avocados are concerned. Since 90% of consumption is from Mexico, one might think the US is a large country; on the other hand, elasticities matter. This...
