Yves here. Welcome Satyajit Das as he continues his in-depth examination of what it would take to reach a much-ballyhooed green energy future. Many of you were keen about his…
Yves here. While climate change skeptics might try tired “a single robin does not make a spring” sort of arguments, we’ve seen an awful lot of robins. The latest could…
Yves here. One of my conservative friends gets extremely agitated on the topic of a gas stove ban. She fulminates that the stereotypical CNN/MSNBC watcher who supports this restriction eats…
Yves here. Evidence is mounting that the US and other advanced economies are failing to provide adequate levels of what have come to be considered essential services, like reliable power,…
Is the yield curve lying? FT Unanswered questions about stolen body parts eroding public faith in Harvard, crisis PR experts say Boston Globe Fed publishes master account list Banking Dive…
Yves here. Given how significant clever marketing labels and propaganda have become, I am very leery of implicit Big Promise labels like Digital You and digital twin. It strongly connotes…
Yves here. Depressing, but not entirely surprising. Military Keynesianism is making arming Ukraine less costly than it seems due to its impact on GDP growth. But this beneficial-only-in-the-eyes-of-economists spending does…
Turkey’s central bank is set to announce its decision on interest rates Thursday. It will be a crucial test: will the country’s economic policy shift to more conventional methods to…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers will recall that I’ve been muttering for some time that masks (and respirators) should become fashion items. Recently: The way we live now, in…
Peruvian troops’ “training alongside US forces will help to improve their capabilities and strengthen the operational performance of [Peruvian] Special Forces, boosting their interoperability with NATO systems and doctrine.” As…