Yves here. Richard Murphy provides a useful, layperson-friendly explanation of why political bromides that treat national budgets like household ones are all wet. Please circulate widely. By Richard Murphy, part-time Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School, director...
Yves here. This post is one of the few comparatively sane ones about what the left should do in light of Donald Trump’s fast and aggressive moves to implement plutocrat-friendly policies and roll back social programs and policies that aid...
Now that December numbers (released by DWD today) destroy the thesis that half of year-to-date cumulative employment is accounted for by government jobs? Here’s Michael Lucas’ graph running up through November, from this article: Source: Lucas (2024). Here is my...
Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Finger Lakes National Forest; Dunn Road, Tompkins, New York, United States. * * * In Case You Might Miss… Trump readies Schedule F assault. Energy in the executive. George R.R. Martin back in...
Yves here. A fashionista colleague has been telling me for some time that luxury brands have been in the crapper for some time, confirmed by occasional stories at the Financial Times about the sorry state of big name luxury brandmesiters...
Yves here. This important post fills out the picture of how extensive censorship became under the Biden Administration. I hope you’ll circulate his piece widely, since it demonstrates the campaign went well beyond social media and included disappearing disfavored content...
“Supergiant” sea bug named after Darth Vader found in South China Sea CBS Do Insects Feel Pain? The New Yorker Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt Smithsonian James Galbraith...
Yves here. It’s always perilous to take issue with some of the theories advanced in a book second-hand, as in a review. However, one of the contentions that Tom Neuburger recaps from the Alfred McCoy book, To Govern the Globe,...
In “The Evers Economy Is a Soviet Dream”, Michael Lucas writes: Believe it or not, the data show that a huge share of the “new jobs” Evers is so excited about have been government jobs––50%, in fact! He deploys this...
Patient readers, I’m still trying to get my arms around the Trump Transition, and so for the next day or so that will be the main focus here. After that, I will return to our various pandemics with renewed éclat....
