There was a noisy minority of analysts thinking we were in, or imminently in, recession (see a list here). It’ll be interesting to see how those views are revised. However, as I noted, while the data was not supportive of...
By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at God’s Spies. Analyses of the recent historic Democratic loss are thick on the ground. Some provide data or forensic analysis and some prescribe, giving recipes for what to do differently. Before I delve into...
You’ve likely heard of Prospera, the private city in Honduras established under the ZEDE (Zone for Employment and Economic Development) law, which has drawn global investment for medical innovation. The current Honduran government is trying to break its contracts and...
We need raw awe aeon (Michael T) How I hunt down fake degrees and zombie universities Nature (Dr. Kevin) New insights into the Denisovans: New hominin group that interbred with modern day humans ScienceDaily (Kevin W) DNA evidence rewrites story...
Yves here. While many women are legitimately upset about the loss of abortion rights under Roe v.Wade, it’s pretty disingenuous to depict the Democrats as stauncher defenders of abortion rights. Like “fighting” for workers when the Dems presided over an...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Northern Mockingbird, 350 South Madison Avenue, Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States. * * * In Case You Might Miss… Trump vs. “the Deep State.” Boeing, post-strike. Mushroom farms and...
Yves here. It’s easy to get whiplash trying to keep one’s eye on the many fallout fronts after Trump’s decisive victory on Tuesday. One evolving spectacle is the much-needed Democratic party recriminations and hopefully the purging of the too many...
Claudia Sheinbaum, her political party, Morena, and arguably Mexico as a whole just dodged a very large bullet. Despite her landslide victory and her party’s super-majority in both legislative houses, allowing for constitutional changes, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s recent assumption...
About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the...
Yves here. While this post usefully marks how Presidential mission creep, by Presidential design and Congressional neglect, accelerated starting in the W era, IMHO it goes light on some of the early Executive power grabs, in part by focusing solely...
