By Lambert Strether of Corrente. With “Rumble in the Jungle” in the headline, I had hoped to present the terrific When We Were Kings: It’s 1974, Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George...
Melanie Schienle Professor of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Institute of Statistics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) andScientist, Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies (HITS) IJF Editor’s Invited Speaker: Collaborative Now- and Forecasting of Respiratory Diseases in Real Time Source link...
From NOAA: Source: NOAA. If you thought global Land & Ocean would look different… Source: NOAA. Source link...
With Q1 3rd release, along with GDP+, we have the following picture (in levels): FIgure 1: GDP reported (bold black), GDO (blue), GDP+ (tan), final sales (light blue), CBO June projection (red), and GDPNow (27 June), all in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR....
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Readers, there will be a Live Blog for The Debate, opening at 8:30PM EDT (and the link won’t work before then). Enjoy! –lambert And reades, patient readers, I had a bit of a technical debacle,...
This is perhaps my favorite food hall. Dating from 1896, the basic building is notable, the displays are lovely and suitably Nordic, and for lunch you can try a wide variety of cuisines, including excellent Mexican food, a rarity in...
. How America became a great pizza country almost everywhere (NYT). 2. What are the prospects for nuclear fusion? 3. Waymo ditches the waitlist. 4. China is returning to a greater focus on coal (FT). And Denmark will levy a...
Yves here. This is a wonderfully acid piece on what The Economist has always amounted to. Enjoy! By Satyajit Das, a former banker and author of numerous works on derivatives and several general titles: Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and...
Yves here. Jomo’s post summarizes a new study which lends yet more support to the view that inserting insurers into heathcare raises cost without improving results. And as an aside, it can worsen patient outcomes by denying and delaying care,...
At the Money: Keeping It Simple The Big Picture The great wealth transfer is coming (but are advisers prepared?) FT Climate AI’s appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030 The Register. The deck: “Believe it or not,...
