Yves here. Tom Neuburger describes how Elizabeth Warren, who swore fealty to capitalism, found her tender faith to be misplaced. As most of you know, the Trump Administration is shuttering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, her brainchild that Obama allowed...
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S&P Global Market Intelligence has put up monthly GDP through December. Here’s a picture of NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee indicators along with monthly GDP. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll incl benchmark revision employment from CES (bold blue), implied NFP from preliminary...
By Lambert Strether. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Mewnans Lake SF–East Trail (Pithlachocco Trail), Alachua, Florida, United States. I wish that Macaulay Library listed sounds imitated with the mimidae. I thought this bird was a little dull at...
The Michigan survey of Consumers revealed that Republican respondents expected one year inflation to be zero as of January 2025. From Torsten Slok: Source: Slok (2025). While I’ve commented on the atavistic attributes of Republican sentiment as measured by the...
The caliber of discourse has degenerated at Naked Capitalism in the wake of Trump taking office and his multi-front attack on government operations and legal agreements, from trade pacts to requirements for firing Federal employees. I am disabling comments on...
By Matthias Kaldorf, Research Economist Deutsche Bundesbank, and Matthias Rottner, an economist at the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements. Originally published at VoxEU. Climate policies could affect financial stability if they lead to large changes...
In the old days of the econoblogosphere, there were regular and often intense exchanges about what the decent-sized community of finance practitioners, economists, journalists, and other experts trying to understand what was going on, since alarmingly top officials were clearly...
Scientists Discover “Zombie” Fungus That Seizes Control of Spiders, Suggest It Be Used for Human Medicine The Byte Climate Top American banks exit net zero alliance: What does this mean for their European peers? EuroNews NOAA told to search grant...
Amid all the chaos of the early days of the Trump administration a small piece of news popped up. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which is a partner to just about all of our tech overlords, is hiring Daniel...
