ECONOMY

Via the excellent Bryan Caplan. The post Who Americans spend their time with, by age appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link...

We will be on a lighter publication schedule through next Monday, December 2. We may be a post light today, Wednesday, depending on news flow, and will have only three posts ex Water Cooler on Thursday and Friday. I hope...

Yves here. This post discusses the widespread assumption that if Trump moves forward with his plan to impose across-the-board tariffs on America’s three biggest trade partners, that will be inflationary and the Fed will be forced to respond via increasing...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Antietam National Battlefield, Washington, Maryland, United States. “Male Northern Mockingbird singing from roadside Eastern Red Cedar. This birds plumage was brownish rather than black — therefore the age...

Yves here. This article delivers a damning finding, that Medicare Advantage grotesquely fails to deliver on its claim of being cheaper to the Federal government than traditional Medicare. Of course, intuitively that seems probable given the insertion of profit-driven insurers...

The USMCA trade agreement, now in its fifth year of existence and up for renegotiation in 2026, is already looking frail. Yesterday (Nov 25), US President-Elect Donald Trump announced that on his first day back in office he would use...

Trump is so desperate to show progress on the immigration front that’s he’s prepared to harm US consumers and the economy in a big way to do so. As many of you have heard via lead story coverage, Trump has...

A Mysterious Noise in The Ocean Sounds Like Leviathans Talking Science Alert (Chuck L) Mathematical modeling reveals the explosive secret of the squirting cucumber PhysOrg. Chuck L: “IgNobel Prize candidate?” ‘99% of people don’t know deodorant can kill’ BBC (Robin...

Yves here. COP29 was such a disappointment that climate activists seem at a loss as to what to do next. Paul Rogers’ forecasts that it will likely take another decade of worsening weather and the fires and floods they generate...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers who have been following our HICPAC coverage (here, here, here, here, and here) know that “HICPAC” stands for Healthcare Infection Control and Prevention Advisory Committee. CDC’s Daniel Jernigan and John Howard describe HICPAC’s purpose...