EJ Antoni today: “I think Trump is really holding a grudge, and rightly so” noted Antoni, “I’m not sure that there’s anything Trump can do to work with this institution . I think what he really needs to do is...
January Conference Board confidence index comes in at 104.1 vs. 105.7 Bloomberg consensus, down from 109.5 in December. A 5.4 point decline is about 1 standard deviation (2021M07-2024M12). More interestingly, expectations (as opposed to current situation) is also down. Source:...
Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Lake Wales; Bok Sanctuary, Florida, United States. From 1963! * * * In Case You Might Miss… Trump strategy. Andreessen predicts AI-driven wage crash (and that’s a good thing). Ortberg soothes the analysts....
Yves here. This post recaps in detail the many climate/weather disasters of 2024, including a very high level of unprecedented heat across broad swathes of the world. Oh, and the peak year for big-ticket disasters was 2023. By Jeff Masters....
What’s in a simple name change? It seems like potentially quite a lot. Mexico is one of the countries most exposed to the potential economic and political fallout from Donald J Trump’s second-term as president. Its economy is almost totally...
Peeing Is Socially Contagious In Chimps 404media General Dwight D. Eisenhower had the foresight to realize that Holocaust denial would occur. Eisenhower said, “Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere...
Yves here. Trump’s anti-immigration push may be hoist, or at least impeded, by a Republican favorite, the states’ rights petard. Among other examples, Trump seems perfectly content to let states play the lead on abortion rights. And while immigration is...
Yves here. Rajiv Sethi makes the point that successfully bullying Colombia with tariff threats over deportation flights is the sort of show of crude power in a very uneven situation that looks likely to generate resistance, particularly from bigger players....
Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Elkinsville Rd. and Kirk’s Ford Rd. , Brown, Indiana, United States. Grab a cup of coffee for nineteen minutes of thrashing! * * * In Case You Might Miss… Trump’s first week. Democrats...
Lambert here: Everything’s going according to plan. By Amy Maxmen, public health local editor and correspondent, was a senior reporter at Nature covering health inequities, global health, infectious diseases, and genomics. She’s also written for The New York Times, The...
