By Alex Hollingsworth, Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, Krzysztof Karbownik, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at Emory University, Melissa A. Thomasson, Professor of Economics at Miami University, and Anthony Wray, and Associate Professor at University Of Southern Denmark....
We’re Bringing the Woolly Mammoth Back to Life Newsweek (Furzy Mouse). ‘Frog saunas’ could save species from deadly fungal disease, study finds Guardian Private equity has become hazardous terrain for investors and Private equity firms slash use of risky debt...
In back-to-back weeks Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended first the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathering in Astana and then the NATO summit in Washington DC. The contrast was stark. Erdoğa made clear Türkiye’s opposition to escalation with Russia and US...
Yves here. In this interview with Nima of Dialogue Works, Michael Hudson discusses the SCO Conference as taking up the gauntlet thrown down at the just-finished NATO summit. Here NATO engaged in yet another expansion by naming China as a...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The iconic image (CNN, AP’s Evan Vucci), helpfully annotated to show how composition makes for an iconic image: And speaking of iconic images, if your first thought is “Trump (nearly) died for us”: (Notice, in...
Lambert here: I wish “resilience” weren’t one of those words. But it is. Like “you do you.” By David Introcaso, Ph.D., a health care research and policy consultant.. Originally published at Undark. Building climate resilience — an ability to adapt...
Yves here. Hopefully readers will chew over some of the interesting data about supply chains and different measures of activity, such as shipment distances, weight and value. Perhaps I am reading too much into this post, but I am bothered...
Yves here. The caliber of American nursing home cares is yet another American disgrace. Admittedly a big part of the problem is the number of elderly people who need care and can’t get it at home or in the home...
Archaeologists Find a Marble Statue in an Ancient Roman Sewer New York Times (Robin K) Night Owls Had More Brainpower in Large UK Survey Bloomberg. Furzy cites: Older adults who self-identified as “evening people” scored better on cognitive tests than...
In a recent SF Fed Economic Letter, Sylvain Leduc, Huiyu Li, and Zheng Liu answered the question: “Are Markups Driving the Ups and Downs of Inflation?” If one defines inflation as a broad, economy-wide increase in prices, the answer is...
