Yves here. Bill Haskell at Angry Bear provided the service of summarizing an important Wall Street Journal story on the shortcomings in Medicare Advantage plans. I was remiss in not covering this article at the time and appreciate Haskell making...
Yves here. Many readers will find this post to be unduly generous about the odds that Trump might change course from America’s full spectrum belligerence under Biden. The fact that his appointments so far are hawks and his loudest anti-war...
Yves here. It appears there is a teeny bit of good news on the environment front, if you consider “less bad than promised” to be positive. Trump has promised that he would lower US energy prices via much more ambitious...
Core up, but supercore down: 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. Source: BLS, BEA, Pawel Skrzypczynski, and author’s...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, Brewer park, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States. Beautiful: Last night’s radar from the Netherlands. An explosion of birds heading to England! I would guess Redwing. https://t.co/eOcXbrDFFo — Jean Roberts...
Yves here. Apologies for not having my own post in this slot. I lost power for over an hour, and with a feeble old battery in my computer, I decided to work on something I could get done. But it...
Yves here. This is an elegant and persuasive analysis that shows how foreign aid donations reflect donor state self-interest. It would be nice, but also a lot to ask, to see how US aid correlates with our military presence in...
First-of-Its-Kind Glowing Sea Creature Discovered in Ocean’s ‘Midnight Zone’ Gizmodo Why Hunting Coyotes May Actually Increase Their Numbers ScienceBlog (Dr. Kevin) The Air Force once almost nuked the Moon Task & Purpose (Kevin W) First amber find on the Antarctic...
For the EU, fake crises like the Russia threat and Trump abandoning NATO mean more giveaways to (mostly US) weapons companies. They mean more neoliberalism through more social spending cuts and privatizations due to lack of funds and more war...
Yves here. Hopefully readers can look past the author John Ruehl feeling the need to praise Western “democracies” or here, republics, and work in digs about China, Russia, and other apparent sinners in an otherwise very useful and extensive historical...
