More Than 4,000 Moth Species Flit Across Texas. One Scientist Photographed 550 in His Yard. Texas Monthly Girl discovers dinosaur footprints on beach walk BBC Demystifying Sovereign Wealth Funds JSTOR Daily Climate From growth fetish to post-growth Democracy Collaborative Public...
Yves here. With homelessness a rising problem all over the US due to the seemingly neverending rise of home prices in excess of wage increase, this Montana program is a welcome development. Even if this initiative might be difficult to...
Yves here. This post describes a failure of US regulation and a hazard to public safety. It also confirms the consequences of subsidizing gas and fuel prices with no thought of the long-term consequences. Properly pricing oil and LNG production...
Prices are up relative to January 2021, but not relative to January 2024: Figure 1: CPI – food at home (blue), ERS forecast as of January (red triangle), ERS forecast as of July (light blue square), Chained CPI – food...
Preliminary NFP count is down 6.5K (on 3 million), unemployment rate up 0.1 ppts. Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment (blue, left scale), early benchmark (pink, left scale), both in 000’s, s.a., and unemployment rate, % (black, right scale). Source: BLS,...
Michigan 67.8 vs 66.7. Big jump in expectations 72.1 vs. 68.5 (as opposed to current situation). Figure 1: University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Consumer Confidence (tan), Shapiro, Sudhof and Wilson (2020) Daily News Sentiment Index (green). all...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, it’s been a very long week in the real world and I’m tired. So, this Water Cooler isn’t exactly an Open Thread, but it is short. And now I’m going to find a...
Yves here. It’s disturbing but not surprising to learn that yet another billionaire is exerting outside policy influence, here on reproductive rights. And it is also disturbing to see what suckers Americans are for public relations. I’m old enough to...
The sheer volume of critical coverage of China’s proposed digital ID system in Western media stands in stark contrast to the near-total absence of coverage, critical or otherwise, of digital ID systems being developed by Western governments. China is in...
Stonehenge’s enigmatic centre stone was hauled 800 kilometres from Scotland Nature 40 Years Of Summer Solstice At Stonehenge: From Anarchy To State Repression To ‘Managed Open Access’ Eurasia Review Rolling stones (excerpt) Times Literary Supplement. The deck: “Was Stonehenge a...
