The media’s role in selling the next military adventure should never be underestimated, even in this media-skeptic age. The more prestigious the media, the bigger the role. Over the past month or so, the New York Times has published no...
What Would Becky Buy? Los Angeles Review of Books. Anthony L: “I think I lost my faith when they started bringing acoustic guitars into the Mass.” Operation Nietzsche Commonweal Magazine (Anthony L) Superfast diamond-laced computer chips now much closer to...
Yves here. If you harbored doubts as to whether Health insurers are evil, this should settle it. External appeals would stop a lot of these bad practices stone cold dead but very few states have it (New York does, with...
A year ago, Laurent Ferrara and I documented the explanatory power of the term spread for recessions across countries. Here’re the 10yr-3mo spreads in November 2023, and Q/Q GDP growth rates for 2024Q3. Figure 1: 10 year-3 month term spreads...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente My answer to the question in the headline: I don’t know. But I do think it’s an interesting question, and this post explains how I came to ask it. (To clarify terms, not always used...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, this is a travel day for me and hence an Open Thread. Talk amongst yourselves! –lambert Bird Song of the Day At IM Doc’s suggestion– Gray Catbird, Indian Springs Wildlife Management Area; along...
EPU through yesterday, and VIX as of 2pm today: Figure 1: EPU (blue, left scale) and 7 day centered moving average (red, left scale), and VIX (green, right scale). 1/6 observation for VIX is as of 2pm ET. Source: policyuncertainty.com...
Axolotls have incredible regeneration powers, yet they’re critically endangered Earth.com World’s Oldest Person Dies in Japan at 116 The Japan News Carbon in our bodies likely left galaxy and came back on cosmic ‘conveyer belt’ Phys.org Soaring demand for weight-loss...
Yves here. This piece is a useful addition to understanding the practical effects of the war in Ukraine, as in who gained economically. The study determined that the sanctions were a big backfire in terms of one of the expressed...
Conor here: While access to abortion gets the lions share of attention from the Dem-leaning Resistance crowd, the lack of rural health care in general, including maternal care, gets far less attention. The following piece from KFF Health News focuses...
