Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Figure 1: GDP per capita (blue), lagged 4 years (orange), in 2017$, SAAR. Source: BEA via FRED. Yes, by 18.6% in output terms. What about cumulative change from beginning of...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Blue Mockingbird, Presa Gutiérrez, Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico. Lots of summery insects, too. * * * In Case You Might Miss… (1) Kamala’s idpol keeps rolling. (3) Covid and class. (2)...
For party of winner, 50-50 as of noon ET today (PredictIt): There was a gap as of midnight this AM. Over the past 90 days: A woman as next president was 50 cents as of midnight: Kamala Harris as next...
As the Daily Mail-ish headline suggests, the political and military situation in Israel and environs has become overly dynamic, in a bad way. We’ll try to be spare given that the members of the Axis of Resistance are almost certainly...
Yves here. While this post provides useful detail about the Crowdstrike 404, I must confess to not understanding the headline claim about liability shields. And the post does not explain that either. Delta is suing Crowdstrike with top litigator David...
Yves here. KLG suggests that important local effects of climate change could persuade skeptics. His introduction: Anthropogenic Climate Change/Global Warming (AGW) is still denied, by the usual suspects with axes to grind and also by the general population who are...
Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact (press release) University of Bristol Killer Whales Sink Yacht in Med: ‘Knew What they Were Doing’ Daily Beast When private equity buys a hospital, assets shrink, new research finds WaPo...
Yves here. Even though we have sometimes linked to reports on the long-standing conflict in Sudan and the resulting starvation, as this post suggests at the top, the media has given it short shrift despite the horrific and rising human...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, I feel I’ve been neglecting Covid in favor of electoral politics (“the tyranny of the urgent”). I will add more political news in short order. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Blue Mockingbird,...
Yves here. For those of less than advanced years, it might seem a bit parochial to spend a lot of time discussing Medicare. But aside from the fact that it is a large and popular program, its evolution is also...
