Yves here. Rob Urie was so gracious as to provide an overview to his piece on how the US cooked its own goose with its embrace of neoliberalism. Not that a happy ending is likely for the rest of the...
The fierce battle over the ‘Holy Grail’ of shipwrecks BBC (Kevin W) ‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers AAAS (Dr. Kevin) Measures to prevent golf cart–related injuries are urgently needed CMAJ (Dr. Kevin) CDC conducting...
Europe is hardly the safest place for financial assets these days, as Russia and Venezuela can attest. It may now be Argentina’s turn to have its assets frozen or even stripped. As readers may recall, a few months ago Argentina’s...
Yves here. Simon Watkins is a hard-core neocon, so his posts need to be taken with an ample dose of salt. Nevertheless, he raises an option for Israel in attacking Iran that I have not seen mentioned before, that of...
The CEPR-EABCN is one arbiter of business cycle chronologies in the Euro Area. The latest announcement is from April 17, 2024. What do more recent indicators suggest (a partial survey)? GDP and employment: Industrial production and the unemployment rate: With...
From FoxNews. Here’s a picture of indicators followed by the NBER’s BCDC over the past year. Note that August numbers are mostly up. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) employment from CES (blue), civilian employment (orange), industrial production (red), personal income...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, while photographing today, I was stepping back to get my subject properly framed when I felt my foot strike emptiness. Then I fell backwards onto a concrete walkway. While falling, I cradled the camera...
By Dan Falk, a science journalist based in Toronto. His books include “The Science of Shakespeare” and “In Search of Time.” Orignally puhlished at Undark. It’s not clear who first said that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,”...
Hooray, Hooray for Badger Day!! JStor Daily Quantum computing and the financial system: opportunities and risks Bank of International Settlements Climate …MILTON STRENGTHENING OVER THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO… …STORM SURGE AND HURRICANE WATCHES ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF FLORIDA… and...
As Israel — with US support — continues its rampage across the Middle East, Türkiye is assessing the shifting landscape and weighing costs and opportunities, including economic and security concerns, ties with NATO on one hand and BRICS countries on...
