Yves here. ZOMG, I could kick myself for not noticing the key fact Wolf discusses here, that even at current interest rates, the US still has negative real interest rates,…
Yves here. There’s been some debate on the “greedflation” thesis, that companies are increasing prices because they can, as opposed because they need to. The food industry offers some support…
‘No Mow May’ encourages homeowners to help bees by letting their lawns grow NBC. Let’s make it year-round! Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees Nature. See also. PwC…
China continues to pull off big commercial and diplomatic coups in the US’ direct neighbourhood — this time with Ecuador, whose government is so closely aligned with the US that…
Yves here. While there is a lot to recommend this article, particularly the discussion of the dangers of crypto, it bothers me when people who should know better go full-bore…
Yves here. On the one hand, if you read the business press, you encounter enough discussion of the role of pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, to work out that they…
Yves here. It is remarkable the degree to which the US has been able to hide its reliance on mercenaries and other contractors. Vanity Fair published a telling piece about…
Bank failures, job cuts and a stalled out stock market – is the world’s largest economy in trouble?
Alligator Mating Season is Underway in Florida—and Is Causing Havoc Field and Stream Exploring a Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna Ecology & Evolution (Sub-Boreal). Citizen science! Warehouses Outperform in Cloudy…
Yves here. Tonight we see mainstream media confirming a favored conservative hobbyhorse, that of uncontrolled immigration at the US-Mexico border. For instance, the lead story at BBC is US border…