Yves here. While this Richard Murphy post correctly fingers the considerable cost of the limited liability regime, omnipresent in modern commerce, he doesn’t suggest a way out. And that’s because the existence of very large enterprises depends on it. No...
Yves here. This article from THE CITY illustrates in miniature the mess of US border policy. Biden substantially liberalized entry rules via executive order, producing a migrant wave that was so large that blue and Democrat-loyal cities like New York...
Father and daughter dance on their walk pic.twitter.com/3VGiv1m79q — Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) August 20, 2024 An Intoxicating 500-Year-Old Mystery Atlantic (Anthony L) Teen Builds His Own Nuclear Fusion Reactor At College Interesting Engineering M&Ms on checkerboard trick your brain ZMEScience...
Yves here. I know this idea may seem sound on some level, but I suspect most people would rather eat bugs than eat food made from bacteria that ate up plastic If nothing else, it has taken decades to work...
What would a President Kamala Harris’ foreign policy look like? She’s already signaled that Israel policy will remain unchanged. How about Russia? For more insight there we can take a look at Philip Gordon, currently serving as Harris’s national security...
I’ve been using one for a few months now, since I had to replace a kaput computer in Stockholm on short notice. Mostly it is fine. But why do they make it so hard to use the “@” sign? You...
from NABE economic policy survey: Source: NABE. I note the 10/60 tariff proposal of Mr. Trump has low support. Source link...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Thrashers 4EVA! California Thrasher, Placerita Canyon Nature Center, Los Angeles, California, United States. Additional species: Spotted Towhee, Pipilo maculatus, Bewick’s Wren. The flight of the honey buzzard: A European Honey...
Not from the Onion, but rather from the Daily Signal, mouthpiece of the Heritage Foundation: The Treasury Department under President Joe Biden has refused to hand over documents showing how officials decided to alter the definition of a recession after the first...
From Saraiva/Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. economists expect the government’s preliminary benchmark revisions on Wednesday to show payrolls growth in the year through March was at least 600,000 weaker than currently estimated — about 50,000...
