With elections next month, independents, especially women, are swinging to the G.O.P. despite Democrats’ focus on abortion rights. Disapproval of President Biden seems to be hurting his party.
By Zsolt Darvas, Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Senior Research Fellow at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Marie Le Mouel, Affiliate Fellow at Bruegel, Simone Tagliapietra, Senior fellow at Bruegel…
Yves here. It’s not very nice to engage in an economic death watch of sorts, particularly when the underlying disease looks likely to spread. But who will go critical first?…
Yves here. Your humble blogger must confess to not knowing much about the demise of the Soviet Union, in part because the US intelligence services and therefore the press and…
Polls show voters liked direct payments from President Biden’s 2021 economic rescue bill. But they have become fodder for Republican inflation attacks.
Lambert here: Cf. Psalm 23; who are these “enemies”? By Etienne Le Rossignol, a Research Fellow at London Business School, and Sara Lowes, Assistant Professor of Economics University of California,…
What a difference 25 years can make. The world today is a markedly different place from the world that existed at MarketWatch’s inception in October 1997. JPMorgan Chase & Co.…
Yves here. This is a helpful and extensive recap of many of the instances of Covid-19 cases in animals and a discussion of some of the propagation channels beyond domesticated…
Yves here. With yet more debt ceiling fights baked in, and the Republicans regularly using them to have a go at cutting Social Security benefits, it’s important to push back…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Velvet-fronted Nuthatch, Wayanad, Kerala, India. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?”…