Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores Nature On Meds? You May Be Able to Eat Grapefruit Again Someday. New York Times Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes Construction Physics California Burning Eaton Fire is at 33% containment as...
After two-thirds of Swiss voters rejected the government’s proposed e-ID system in 2021, a slightly revamped “Digital Passport Act (E-ID Act)” is back on the political agenda. In March 2021, Switzerland was the scene of a rare exercise in popular...
Yves here. The article below describes how critical services in the US, such as elevators and public water systems, are often so far behind in required maintenance that, for instance, a rising number of elevators are being left “out of...
In wondering why the LA wildfires had worse outcomes than say those in Wisconsin, Mr. Bruce Hall makes this assertion. This might be true today, but over time it isn’t. Once again, referring to data, I examine the PDSI for...
Since the election: Figure 1: EPU (blue, left scale), 7 day centered moving average (bold red, left scale), VIX (green, right scale). Source: policyuncertainty.com, CBOE via FRED, author’s calculations. Figure 2: Five year Treasury-TIPS spread, % (black, left scale), log...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I got a late start today. I’ll make it up tomorrow, I swear! –lambert Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Long Branch SP and Lake, Macon, Missouri, United States. * * *...
Mr. Bruce Hall speculates on the causes for the severity of the LA fires: I remember being in Lompoc, CA in 1968 for a month of military training. Since there wasn’t enough temporary housing on base, I rented a small...
At 10am ET, 10 year Treasury yields were at 4.8%, up from 4.7% at Friday’s close (delta 8 bps). TIPS 10 year were at 2.35% up from 2.32% (delta 3 bps). Here’re some 5 year inflation expectations data over the...
Remember Shadowstats? Well, there’s always a John Williams. Here’s Tucker in EpochTimes (reprinted in ZeroHedge): …U.S. inflation has been accelerating since September 2021. It is now running 3 percent in real time, or 50 percent above the target. This continued...
We warned from the outset that Russia might well win the war in Ukraine and lose the peace. In fact, the odds are rising that there will be no peace, particularly of the sort that Vladimir Putin has said he...
