Yves here. Despite Tulsi Gabbard having loudly and consistently opposed US “regime change wars” and taking political risk to do so (like meeting with Assad), Tom Neuburger reminds us that she’s a hawk on other issues, like supporting Israel. He...
Yves here. Some things can’t be said often enough. In this case, the topic is what caused the inflation that is still stinging many Americans. It’s become a favorite hobbyhorse that the admittedly hefty Biden stimulus is the perp. But...
Yves here. KLG discusses how sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild’s latest book on the deep shame of working class people who have lost productive and decent-paying jobs explains why many voters turned to Trump, as opposed to Democrats determined to shame...
Lessons From Lucy Sapiens Aztec Death Whistle Was Designed to Haunt the Mind, Brain Scans Confirm ZME Science Private equity: vampire capital Michael Roberts’ Blog Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth Ars Technica Climate/Environment Massive...
Including HICP and nowcasted PCE deflator. Figure 1: Instantaneous inflation per Eeckhout (2023) for CPI (blue), chained CPI (red), HICP (green), PCE deflater (bold black), PCE market-facing deflator (pink). Chained CPI and HICP seasonally adjusted by author using X-13. PCE...
Today, we are pleased to present a guest contribution written by Joshua Aizenman (University of Southern California) and Jamel Saadaoui (Université Paris 8-Vincennes). This post is based on the paper of the same title. The outcome of the 2024 US presidential election...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Granville Schools Land Lab, Licking, Ohio, United States * * * Patient readers, matters occurrent have proved unexpectedly time-consuming, so this is an open thread. I will be...
Yes, seven years. That is how long beneficiaries of the Kentucky Retirement Systems have been trying to get damages from the sellers of customized hedge funds of funds, KKR, Blackstone, and PAAMCO, as well as as their principals, such as...
Yves here. Pentagon-affiliated researchers were warning in the early 2000s of mass climate migrations, such as out of to-be-largely flooded areas like Bangladesh, and how that would be geopolitically destabilizing. Below is a comparatively minor aspect of that phenomenon, of...
Online age verification threatens to trap everyone, not just minors, in its web, as the Australian government recently admitted. As readers may recall (while perhaps also recoiling), Spain is in the process of developing a licence to w*nk online. In July,...
