Yves here. This essay does a fine job of describing and kneecapping the sense of privilege and entitlement of the professional managerial class, based on a recent book by Professor…
Yves here. Please welcome seasoned finance and economics practitioner and commentator Satyajit Das, who is provided a three-part series on how major world geopolitical and economic structures are fragmenting as…
Yves here. While this analysis is helpful and I assume directionally correct, it appears to omit a key source of energy loss of renewables: that of storage costs, as in…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, I must finish up a post on how CDC is butchering variant data. Talk amongst yourselves! –lambert Contact information for plants: Readers, feel…
Until recently Washington’s closest ally/client state in South America, Colombia is now under new management. And that management has a wildly different perception of US influence in Latin America and…
The Wall Street Journal has a new story, U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle, Driven by Animosity Between Biden and Mohammed bin Salman, which is as good as you can expect from the…
Yves here. Please note that the title is in quotes because it is the translated title of a new article from a Russian military journal that Helmer has translated in…
The Thinking Man’s Guide to Hitting a Moose Outside The White House says the U.S. is strong enough to avoid a recession but Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk think it’s…
First, a diatribe against the word “narrative,” now pervasively used in commentary, particularly what purports to be political/geopolitical reporting. What is a narrative? It is a story. Until recently, “narrative”…
Lambert here: Oh, good. By Renuka Rayasam, KHN Senior Correspondent, and Colleen DeGuzman, KHN. Peggy Girshman Fellow. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. AUSTIN, Texas — After Britt Kelly’s son…