“The deep chainsaw is coming” in the second year. After a year in power, Argentina’s faux libertarian President Javier Milei may not have burnt down the country’s central bank or dollarised Argentina’s economy, as he repeatedly promised he would do...
Grandmother, 80, is killed in freak accident in her Sleep Number bed Daily Mail A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans ScienceDaily (Kevin W) Beatrix Potter’s Quiet Rebellion Humanities (Anthony L) Kafka’s Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical...
Yves here. This post presents a complicated but revealing tale of how a potentially superior and less invasive and risky treatment for clots that cause heart attacks and strokes has gone nowhere. Its inventor believes profit incentives play a major...
So be prepared. From Feng, Han, and Li (2023): As noted in the article, machinery, electronics and optical equipment accounted for a lot of imports as a share of total US imports for these categories, so these pass-through coefficients pertain...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, South Shore of Pueblo Reservoir, Pueblo, Colorado, United States. Starts slowly, but becomes quite virtuosic. * * * In Case You Might Miss… Trump: Time’s “Person of the...
Including PPI and nowcasted PCE: Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation for core CPI (blue), chained core CPI (tan), supercore CPI (pink), services supercore (light green), PPI core (red), and PCE core (green), per Eeckhout (2023), T=12, a=4. PCE deflator for November is y/y...
Yves here. While it is welcome to see Elizabeth Warren using a quixotic bill to call attention to the fact that Corporate America is increasingly in the business of looting companies for their and shareholder fun and profit, one has...
Yves here. We are running a new piece by Andrew Korybko which is very likely to provoke informative reader discussion. Having said that, Korybko likes to paint with exceedingly bright colors and his disinclination for nuance has the unfortunate tendency...
Whale makes epic migration, astonishing scientists BBC Climate Did a Terminal Temperature Acceleration Event start in December 2024? Arctic News We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures NewScientist Water An impact-free mechanism to deliver water to terrestrial planets...
Yves here. This piece tries to sound a hopeful note about the possible upside of plastic pollution in the Antarctic that has risen to a level it threatens local marine life. But it that it has led to the formation...
