Operation Beluga — or how a Soviet ice breaker played music to thousands of ice-trapped whales to save them from starving ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin) Solid knitting: a different spin on 3D printing that can make furniture out of yarn ZMEScience...
Yves here. This is far from the first time that outdoor temperatures have played a big role in the treatment of exposed workers. In the US, cotton farming slaves were treated as assets: sold, traded, even used as collateral for...
From the Lewis, Mertens, Stock NY Fed WEI, and the Baumeister, Leiva-Leon, Sims Economic Conditions Index: Figure 1: WEI (blue), WECI plus 2% (tan), in %. Source: NY Fed via FRED, Baumeister et al. For (certain to be revised) series...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Since we seem to be in an apocalyptic mode just now, here are some headlines from last week: Fireflies are fading from Maine’s night skies Portland Press-Herald The number of monarch butterflies and other Wisconsin...
From CME: Figure 1: Effective Fed funds (bold black), from futures as of 7/26 (teal), as of 8/2 (red), and of 8/5 noon ET (light blue), in %. Source: Fed, CME, author’s calculations. Note the ten year Treasury yield also...
Via Scott Sumner. The post That was then, this is now, German edition appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link...
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 Week Three! Long-tailed Mockingbird, Road to Ronquillo at -14.80588, -74.78986, Ica, Peru. “Birds singing...
By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. “You could conclude this is another sell signal. This was a far higher level of selling activity than we were expecting”: Edward Jones Investments. Q2 was the seventh...
About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the...
