Tasmania is looking for curious, adventurous professionals to fill a wide array of unusual roles—including a “wombat walker,” who will be responsible for taking the stocky marsupials on their morning jaunts and feeding them snacks. Tasmania has posted a series of “odd jobs”...
Dear patient readers, Due to all the Biden stories, you got an extra big serving of Links. * * * Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck Futurism (Kevin W) Earth’s core has slowed so...
Yves here. Thank the persistent and very long running campaign to move the values of the US to the right for the hollowing out of the meaning of traditional political labels that Michael Hudson describes below. It can’t be said...
I will be doing a Conversation with him. In case you do not know, Christopher self-describes as: Christopher Kirchhoff is an expert in emerging technology who founded the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley office and has led teams for the President, Chairman...
Yves here. We must confess that due to so many big stories being in motion as to not give much coverage to an important element of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians: that of the escalation...
I say no, we have enough European governments with proportional representation already. Should not someone allow for the possibility of more decisive action? Estimates are suggesting that Labour won two-thirds of the seats with one-third of the vote, more or...
CPS based series adjusted to NFP way below official NFP, early benchmark. Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment from CES (blue), CES hours (red), QCEW adjusted by geometric moving average by author (light blue), Business Employment Dynamics (pink), and Philadelphia Fed...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, this willl be a short Water Cooler, partly because this is supposed to be a holiday, but also I am having a power failure. Here’s hoping the battery holds out! –lambert Bird Song...
1. Has the Minotaur labyrinth been discovered in Crete? 2. Catching a Soviet lab leak. 3. A life cycle hypothesis, from AutismCapital. 4. A Potemkin landslide? And Labour vote share declined in districts with high Muslim populations. 5. A Singaporean...
NFP at +206K vs +191K. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) employment from CES (bold blue), civilian employment (orange), industrial production (red), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold green), manufacturing and trade sales in Ch.2017$ (black), consumption in Ch.2017$ (light...
