Yves here. With Hair Furore pre-inauguration furor getting more intense, perhaps another break from reguar programming is in order. However, to be a stickler, “forgotten farming technique” is clearly a misnomer since the central figure in this article remembered it!...
Yves here. Trump’s success in creating the appearance that he will break a lot of china means there’s a lot of alarm about high profile threatened changes, from ones that have some odds of happening (the appointment of Pete Hegseth...
Yves here. KLG probes what MAHA seems to mean in the public’s mind and in practice, and starts with a key text: Good Energy by Casey Means. Sadly, it’s a document only for the American affluenza, with its food recommendations,...
World’s oldest 3D map discovered ScienceDaily (Kevin W) Babies born on Mars could diverge from Earthlings within a couple of generations ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin) Lifetime risk and projected burden of dementia Nature Medicine (guurst). Eeek. Climate/Environment PFAS: The astronomical cost...
Yves here. For your delectation, yet another piece from diehard neocon Simon Watkins. If nothing else, he’s a useful of indictor of a hawkish flavor or orthodox thinking. And he sometimes has good information tidbits. This piece starts with the...
Heritage Foundation’s EJ Antoni has been describing the gap between the establishment NFP series and the CPS employment series as the basis for evidence of mismeasurement of employment by the CES. Goldman Sachs notes today (Peng, “Revised Immigration Estimates Will...
From Rappaport, Swanson, Duehren, in NYT yesterday, an interestingly monochromatic picture of the incoming economics team. Notes: Clockwise from top left: Bessent (to Treasury; Yale; Key Square Group), Luttnick (to Commerce: Haverford; Cantor Fitzgerald), Hassett (to NEC; Swarthmore, Penn; AEI),...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Wannagan Creek Cabin area, Billings, North Dakota, United States. * * * In Case You Might Miss… Trump transition confirmation process. DOGE as procurement capture? Tiktok users flee...
The Western press and puditocracy have done a brilliant job of enforcing the Bush and now default US position, “You’re with us or you’re against us.” So it seems necessary to state that I am not against BRICS; I am...
Yves here. We’ll take some of the fun out of using this article as a reader critical thinking exercise by pointing out the obvious up front. This piece is garbage in, garbage out. Or perhaps more accurately, (not surprising for...
