(Or, ” I have in my hand fifty-seven cases of individuals…”) At 3:44 into this video, this Ms. DiMartino Booth makes this assertion, claiming this is the reason we haven’t seen a recession in the data pre-election. She further argues...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary, Westchester, New York, United States. “Amazing repertoire of other species’ songs woven into this song. This mockingbird was imitating several species including cardinal,...
Rolling Stone weighed in on what those who check into Twitter or TikTok have probably already noticed: Social Media Has Little Sympathy for Murdered Health Insurance Exec. At this point, there is comparatively little new news about the killing of...
Yvew here. On one level, it should not come a surprise that individuals cling to pre-existing beliefs on politicized topics like climate change even when facts pile up against them. This propensity has been well demonstrated in the social psychology...
Yves here. This piece in so many ways exemplifies what is wrong with the media and elite punditry today. Too many of those whose economic interests or emotional affinities like with the PMC/mainstream media world view insistently seek to discredit...
Japan’s audacious bid to become a semiconductor superpower FT A pufferfish: ‘probably nature’s greatest artist’ Guardian Climate Arctic Ocean may see its 1st ‘ice-free’ day by 2027, study warns Anadolu Agency * * * EU pushes back deforestation law by...
Yves here. Below is yet another example of continuing Collective West delusion. As most regulars know well, the US and Western weapons stocks have been badly run down over the course of the Ukraine war, to the degree that some...
Here’re CDS swaps and spreads vis a vis Germany over the past year: The credit ratings have been stable for years…until today. Here’s S&P’s: Here’s the fiscal situation, as summarized by the budget balance as share of GDP. ...
As I have observed before, the explanation for why we have not yet seen a recession’s onset in the data yet could be one of the following: (1) the model based on historical correlations is no longer applicable (DGP has...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, 138 Captains Dr, West Babylon, Suffolk, New York, United States. “This bird’s song includes mimicry of Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, and possibly Tree Swallow (final phrase at 0:44).”...
