Yves here. The ruling Polish leadership is apparently worried that Musk will soon turn his attention to Poland’s upcoming May elections after he roughs up and perhaps even routs the already weak UK prime minister Kier Starmer. I know the...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Theodore Roosevelt National Park – Upper Talkington Trail, Billings, North Dakota, United States. * * * * * * Contact information for plants: Readers, feel free to contact...
Yves here. This piece sets out the plight of what next for Democrats in class warfare terms, which is a useful frame. I am not even sure, however, that many who are in positions of influence relative to the party...
Yves here. As much as the effort may seem futile, it still is important to keep confronting the Israeli genocide in Gaza, even if that consists only of publicizing its ongoing horrors. If nothing else, as Yanis Varoufakis explains below,...
Yves here. We are posting below on an overview of the massive Pacific Palisades and environs fires. Even though there have been quite a few climate-change-related disasters, such as more frequent and extensive wildfires and more intense and locationally unexpected...
How Multitasking Drains Your Brain MIT Press Calfornia Burning Space satellites track astonishing expansion of deadly California wildfires FOX. The video: Watch the latest video at foxnews.com In maps: Thousands of acres on fire in LA BBC * * *...
Yves here. This post does a good job, at a high level, of confirming what everyone knows: that having health or homeowner’s insurance amounts to the insurer having an option as to when and how much to pay on a...
From Rhodium Group (h/t Stephen Nagy): Some alternative estimates from BOFIT (November): The lower bound on the BOFIT alternatives is about equal to Gao Shanwen’s guess about GDP growth. This entry was posted on January 8, 2025...
Five year breakeven up, dollar up. Figure 1: Five year Treasury breakeven (black, left scale), 5 year expected inflation (light blue, left scale), both %; nominal trade weighted dollar index (dark red, right scale), and DXY (red), both in logs,...
