1. “But SpaghettiOs stood alone as the most convenient of convenience foods.” 2. Meta-science reforms at NIH? Here is the Substack link. 3. “…we find that those who are political outliers in their community are significantly less likely to get...
Yves here. Helmer’s latest post gives a new chapter in the unhappiness of the Russian general staff and influential military bloggers with Putin’s measured pace in prosecuting the war in Ukraine. Perhaps I am begin parochial, but I find the...
The surprising link between drug trafficking and bird conservation Sequencer Study challenges popular idea that Easter islanders committed ‘ecocide’ Phys.org Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano keeping scientists up at night CNN Climate/Environment ‘Catastrophic flooding’ in Upper Midwest prompts...
Remember my warnings about the FDAs takeover of lab developed tests? …Lab developed tests have never been FDA regulated except briefly during the pandemic emergency when such regulation led to catastrophic consequences. Catastrophic consequences that had been predicted in advanced by...
Yves here. With so much news and so many hours in the day, I must confess to having missed when UK prime minister Rishi Sunak started advocating for freeports, years before he became head of the government, and has recently...
By John P. Ruehl, an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C., and a world affairs correspondent for the Independent Media Institute. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to several other foreign affairs publications. His book,...
That is the new book by Nick Lloyd, it will be making my best non-fiction of the year list. Reviews are very strong, and you can either pre-order and wait, or order it from the UK, or buy it in...
S. Ren in Bloomberg: “It’s getting flatter, prompting worries over an ‘asset famine’ and a prolonged recession.” Whatever the reason, an inverted yield curve has a bad rap. In normal times, notes with longer maturities offer higher rates to compensate...
TC: “Is the Stiglitz-Shapiro 1984 efficiency wage model actually a model of sticky wages, or not? Is either the real or nominal wage sticky in that model?” Claude: The Stiglitz-Shapiro efficiency wage model from 1984 is not primarily a model of sticky wages,...
The DWD released the May preliminary employment numbers on Thursday (h/t James): Figure 1: Wisconsin nonfarm payroll employment (black), Philadelphia Fed early benchmark series (teal), Wisconsin May Economic Outlook forecast (red), all in 000’s, s.a. Source: DWD, Philadelphia Fed, WI...
