By Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Intel’s story is a textbook case of how chasing short-term gains can lead to long-term disaster. Once...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, I’ll have more on Politics shortly. Stay tuned! –lambert Bird Song of the Day I looked for another species of songbird that mimics, and came up with the Thrasher. Brown Thrasher, Location, Finger...
Heritage Foundation’s EJ Antoni writes on X (August 2): Over the last year, native-born Americans have LOST 1.2 million jobs while foreign-born employment has increased 1.3 million; we’re just swapping out American workers at this point, not growing the...
Core PPI 0.0% m/m vs +0.2% consensus (+2.4% y/y vs. +2.7% consensus). Here’s a picture of instantaneous core measures. Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (blue), chained core CPI (tan), supercore CPI (pink), PPI core (red), and PCE core (green),...
Yves here. While Richard Wolff makes important observations about how both the purported left and right have abandoned ordinary citizens and cater to the interests of the wealthy, and that the collective mood is both sour and increasingly outraged, I...
Yves here. I welcome reader comments as to how all-in environmentally friendly new construction can be. Nevertheless, a noteworthy feature of this new green complex is that it was built as affordable housing. By Samantha Maldonado. Originally published at THE...
Yves here. This post below despite being generally not bad for a Western update on the state of play in the Middle East still contains some nail-on-the-chalkboard tropes, such as Yemen and Iraq forces opposed to the US being proxies...
“We see ATM blasts all over the world, but the intensity that we experience in Germany is really in a league of its own.” In Europe, people don’t tend to rob banks anymore — the risks are simply too high...
Pigeon left cannabis at a cafe in Stockholm Omni via machine translation (Micael T) Wrestling with bulls, meat-only diets and sex bans: How the ancient Olympians prepared PhysOrg (Chuck L) The Prisoners Who Gave Their Captors the Bird Now I...
If you’re wondering about a recession by the time the election rolls around… Source: Pearce, Martin, Recession Monitor – Still no sign of a recession, Oxford Economics, 6 August 2024. I’m not sure about the exact ensemble of models used,...
