Yves here. Richard Murphy makes a critical point about the focus of media, that its notion of what amounts to news has become more divorced than ever from the concerns…
Yves here. Below, Wolf Richter demonstrates how fabulously overvalued Tesla stock is. Yours truly is not a stock jockey, but even allowing for that, I have difficulty thinking of any…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, more on the day’s fireworks shortly. The New Year starts with a bang! –lambert Bird Song of the Day In honor of the…
Perception is everything in politics, and a lot of Americans perceive us as not feeling their pain or caring too much about other things.
Yves here. We sometimes run articles by Simon Watkins because they epitomize a sadly-common hard-core neocon school of thought in policy circles. Unfortunately, given the number of hawks that Trump…
Yves here. Many readers will likely take issue with the use of India’s biolabs as the focus of an article worrying about their proliferation. If you want to look at…
Yves here. Even over this normally quiet holiday period, the Musk-oligarch and now Trump fight with MAGA over H-1B visas continued at a fierce pitch in the social media sphere.…
Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and one of them is Lambert’s long-running and invaluable tenure at Naked Capitalism. He is retiring from Naked Capitalism to pursue…
Yves here. KLG focuses today on an important topic: the world rise in cancers among younger people. Note that the key papers he discusses, one published in 2022, the other…
Yves here. Rajiv Sethi reviews and raises questions about a recent survey of political views and self-censorship among teaching faculty at 55 universities. Not surprisingly, quite a few report believing…