Category: Economy

Yves here. This article by Andrew Bacevich on Ukraine is revealing, and not in a good way. True, Bacevich does challenge the wild-eyed claims about a loss in Ukraine having…

Yves here. The modest headline claim about oil prices and inflation seems reasonable, if nothing else due to lead and lag effects, as well as the ability of businesses and…

A mesmerizing look at nature’s eight-legged wonders National Geographic Climate Coral Triangle communities find solutions as underwater world faces deep climate challenges Channel News Asia Sea life bounced back fast…

Lambert here: Not even a hearing on single payer, apparently. It’s not just that the health care system is “dysfunctional”; our ruling and governing classes are dysfunctional, utterly, at all…

‘We’re exhausted’: Cat feeders hope more can be done to stop stray dog attacks Channel News Asia Don’t feed the bears! But birds OK, new Tahoe research shows AP Signals…

Yves here. Yours truly, like many other proprietors of sites that publish original content, is plagued by site scrapers, as in bots that purloin our posts by reproducing them without…

Yves here. Qui tacet consentire videtur, or “he who is silent is understood to agree” can apply in political as well as legal contexts. Here, Peter Dorman contends that progressives…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Reader Query Once More: Periodically we’ve posted threads of recommendations for vendors (doctors, dentists, restaurants, retail, gyms, performance venues) that are what I might call…

A dwarf planet beyond Neptune has a mysterious ring that astronomers can’t explain Space.com Why giant prehistoric animals got smaller BBC Fed rolls out 2023 stress-test scenarios, with wrinkle for…

Another G-7 economy took a big step toward adopting a central bank digital currency (CBDC). At the same time, the first largish economy to have launched a CBDC, Nigeria, descends…