Yves here. Some positive news on the climate change front. Rural areas can get a boost by co-locating solar generation with agriculture. By Tina Casey, who has been writing about…
Yves here. KLG volunteered that a good intro could be: “What scientists say and what the people hear are sometimes different things.” And the misunderstanding lies primarily with the scientists.…
Yves here. James Galbraith politely and methodically questions some of the economic logic used to claim that the Western sanctions have done serious, lasting damage to Russia. As we and…
Yves here. This post makes a point with respect to commercial real estate (and private equity lending) that is not sufficiently well appreciated. While particular banks may has significant commercial…
Patient readers, I am having horrid connectivity problems. Normally, my connectivity is triply redundant (hot spot, phone, iPad). I am on the road, and it is all failing for my…
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is one of the few large European banks that continues to conduct business more or less as usual in Russia. But as the profits from its…
Yves here. This post illustrates not just what is wrong with health care in the US, but social services generally: far too much complexity, lots of gaps, and arbitrary-seeming results.…
Yves here. This is a useful and compact recap of why and how quickly the Saudis have cooled on the US and why the US is no longer in a…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente I whinge about the day’s ghastly connectivity problems in Water Cooler; the upshot is that since I must press Submit in the window of opportunity…
Puma’s Secret Garden: Study Reveals Sly Strategy of Nurturing Nature To Lure Prey SciTech Daily What color were Neandertals? John Hawks Easter After-Action Report Easter is God reminding us of…