Category: Economy

The new Labour Party government said it had inherited a challenging financial position and warned of tax increases and spending cuts when it reveals its budget this week.

Corroborating written history with ancient DNA: The case of the Well-man described in an Old Norse saga iScience Does the Fed Still Believe in the NAIRU? J. W. Mason’s Money…

Economist Mario Draghi has held a lot of roles: Goldman Sachs executive, the European Central Bank president, and unelected prime minister of Italy. He’s now continuing his decades-long mission to remake…

By Evy Lewis. Originally published at Investigate Midwest.  In 2004, John Platt and his wife purchased 26 acres of untouched woodlands in Florida’s panhandle. As they transformed it into a…

The Case of the SS Stalingrad, the Polar Bear and the Barrels of Siberian Honey. Breaking the Fetters Climate/Environment The energy transition is powered by — wait for it — coal…

Conor here: Entirely unsurprising, especially if you read Lambert’s Oct. 24 piece “Biden Bets on “Let ‘Er Rip” with a SECOND Pandemic-Grade Virus: H5N1 (“Bird Flu”).” That dealt largely with…

Yves here. Many of our very rational readers may feel that taking climate change remediation or containment steps at the local level is too modest an action to make any…

Yves here. As Lambert might say, “BWHAHAH!” But it would have been nice if challenges of “misinformation” came earlier and often. By Sara Talpos, a contributing editor at Undark. Originally…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. For readers who don’t know what HICPAC (Healthcare Infection Control and Prevention Advisory Committee) is, we’ll get to that in Section 1 below. On Stafford…

Lambert here: Strong original reporting from DeSmog. Every so often, Saudi propaganda for Neom comes across my feed, and it’s obviously a grandiose real estate development signaling some sort of…