Yves here. Tom Neuburger’s latest on “What to do about Biden” raises a lot of interesting points for discussion, even if yours truly does not necessarily agree with them. The one that bothers me the most is the premise that...
The European Union’s capacity to produce 155 mm artillery ammunition may be less than half as large as public estimates by senior EU officials indicate, affecting the bloc’s ability to keep promises about supplies to Ukraine, Schemes and its partners...
Yves here. Western soi-disant experts, particularly China hawks and Silicon Valley boosters, regularly depict China as a surveillance state. Thus, they contend, reliance on Chinese technology opens all sorts of routes for Chinese snooping. This view is based on strong-form...
Dear patient readers, You got some extra links today because Lambert was not on Water Cooler duty yesterday and the Biden state of play is a rapidly moving target. * * * How a citizen scientist is trying to overhaul...
To treat the NHS’s ills, Keir Starmer’s government is talking about bringing back Tony Blair’s health secretary, Alan Milburn, who is now in the pay of corporations with interests in the UK’s healthcare sector. The UK’s new Labour government is...
Behind the dearth of elevators in the country that birthed the skyscraper are eye-watering costs. A basic four-stop elevator costs about $158,000 in New York City, compared with about $36,000 in Switzerland. A six-stop model will set you back more...
We quantify the contribution of the largest firms to South Korea’s economic performance over the period 1972-2011. Using firm-level historical data, we document a novel fact: firm concentration rose substantially during the growth miracle period. To understand whether rising concentration...
Conor here: The group behind the effort to push Biden out, “Pass the Torch, Joe,” is only described on its website as “a network of Democratic activists, organizers, and voters who came together around the belief that nothing matters as...
I was recently looking for a bad book to read – preferably in the disconnected-from-reality US foreign policy section while waiting for Anne Applebaum’s forthcoming Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. During my perusing I came...
Butterflies Can Make Epic Atlantic Ocean Voyages, Shocking Scientists Science Alert Scientists re-emerge after a year in Mars simulation project Deutsche Welle Climate/Environment Record-setting heat will continue to torment millions of Americans this weekend CNN Blazing hot surfaces are a...
