Some are gloomy, but the overall economic picture remains bright.
Nov. 3, 2023, 6:30 a.m. ET Nov. 3, 2023, 6:30 a.m. ET Many employers are still struggling to find available workers, but the labor market is loosening. At the same…
Can Humanities Survive the Budget Cuts?
The state auditor of Mississippi recently released an eight-page report suggesting that the state should invest more in college degree programs that could “improve the value they provide to both…
The Youngest Senior
When residents at Sun City Center, a sprawling retirement community in West Central Florida, struggle with their electronics, many of them now know who to call on: Maria Hodge, one…
What It’s Like to Run the New York City Marathon Route
The New York City Marathon is not where world records are set. Those blazing times are clocked on flat and fast courses in Chicago, Berlin and London. Runners there can…
Why Run the New York City Marathon When You Can Drive It?
An eighteen-wheeler sat motionless at the intersection of 26th Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, completely blocking traffic in all directions. As motorists blasted their horns in an orchestra of…
Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Grown Up Criminal, Not an Impulsive Man-Child
Sam Bankman-Fried, crypto’s Icarus, was convicted of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy on Thursday night after a trial that generated 10 million pages of documents and only a few…
‘Worse Than People Can Imagine’: Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Breeds Chaos in States | naked capitalism
Yves here. The new Medicaid cutbacks are yet another implementation of Lambert’s second rule of neoliberalism: “Die faster.” Rates of disability have been marching steadily higher over the decades, even…
Did People Die from Covid Because of the Power of Populist Politics? | naked capitalism
Yves here. Richard Murphy discusses a BMJ paper on why droplet dogma remained (and remains) firmly entrenched despite growing and then overwhelming evidence that it was transmitted by aerosols. And…
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Wild Rise and Abrupt Crash
There comes a moment in the development of a new technology when the hype is so common it passes for common sense. Lawyers, accountants and regulators are nowhere to be…
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Found Guilty of 7 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy
Sam Bankman-Fried, the tousle-haired mogul who founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was convicted on Thursday of seven charges of fraud and conspiracy after a monthlong trial that laid bare the…