The largest tank battle in WWII took place around Kursk, not far from where the current Ukrainian incursion is. Source: Militaryland, accessed 8/9/2024. This map corresponds to the blue rectangle in the below map for Kursk in 1943. Source: Wikipedia,...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Readers have been so happy with the mockingbirds I’m going to keep doing them. Now entering Day Five of Week Three! Do readers have another favorite bird? Or shall I...
That’s the title of an article by Heritage’s EJ Antoni: In the last quarter of 2023, these monthly job reports showed an increase of nonfarm payrolls by 637,000—robust growth, to be sure. But a much larger survey of businesses indicates...
When I was briefly in Venezuala, my client’s joint venture partner described a politician as someone who would get in front of a mob and call it a parade. I first thought to use it to describe how the US,...
Yves here. Richard Murphy works from some recent examples of financial market panic to contend that most secondary market trading is societally unproductive. It therefore amounts to rentierism and should be curbed. There is a large body of evidence supporting...
‘World’s oldest calendar’ discovered carved into ancient monument Space.com Global stocks claw back bulk of losses from Monday’s rout FT Climate Federal infrastructure funding is fueling a push to remove dams and restore river habitat AP Carbon Market Faces Upheaval...
“Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States… that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election.” But it was only clear for four days. Almost two weeks after holding still-disputed general...
Yves here. In case you have not done so, please circulate the revelation that TSA has been engaging in a staggering amount of costly, terrorist-level harassment of former Congressmember and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard. Matt Taibbi gave a long-form account...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Thanks to Federalism, what I intended to be a single post became a bit sprawling, because mask ban legislation is being passed in multiple local and state jurisdictions. So I will split what was supposed...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, I am struggling to finish my long delayed-by-events post on mask bans, so this is an open thread. –lambert P.S. However, as a conversation starter, when digging into the oppo on Walz’s military...
