Some people, including three of the Supreme Court judges, are calling it an attempted “coup”. Unsurprisingly, Washington’s fingerprints are all over this. On Tuesday, Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico’s first ever female president, and she already has her...
Yves here. This piece is intriguing. It finds, using Twitter as the basis for its investigation, that “conservatives” are more persistent in news-sharing to counter the platform trying to dampen propagation. If you read the techniques Twitter deployed to try...
My guess for private NFP: Figure 1: Private NFP (bold black), nowcast (blue), +/- 1 std error band (gray), Bloomberg consensus (red +). Source: BLS, Bloomberg, author’s calculations. The nowcast is +176K, vs +125K Bloomberg consensus. The nowcast is based...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Extremely patient readers, I’m afraid brunch got utterly out of control. So this is quite skeletal, although I will add in as much as I can, as fast as I can! In the meantime, talk...
ADP surprised on the upside (143K vs 124K consensus): Not sure what this means, but ADP is outstripping the official series, which is itself above the preliminary benchmark. Figure 1: Private nonfarm payroll employment from CES (blue), preliminary benchmark (light...
Yves here. As you can see from Tom Neuburger’s snippets below, his discussion with Richard Eskow went well beyond the Ukraine conflict. I did not cross post his underlying Putin, Ukraine and War post because it intended for another audience...
Yves here. Below is some additional information that may help readers better assess the background to Iran’s missile strikes on Israel and their impact. Readers may recall that immediately before Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassim Nasrallah and other senior...
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. This post givens some depressing examples draconian new anti-homeless ordinances and laws instituted in the wake of the Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling, which allows for homelessness to be criminalized. Some churches are defying these rules even though...
Yves here. This post does provide useful information about the positions of each campaign on health care and does point out that Team Trump has been in handwave mode about what they intend to do. However, it depicts Trump actions...
