Part the First: NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease (paywall). As part of the defenestration of Columbia University, the National Institutes…
Yves here. Readers might argue that Richard Murphy’s contention, that medicine is too far outside the political discourse, does not apply to the US, where who should get and who…
This time, it’s not just Wall Street banks that should be worried about the contagion risks from a full-blown banking crisis in Mexico. So, too, should their European counterparts. Moody’s…
Yves here. Trump continues to suffer legal setbacks. The question is the degree to which he can keep defying the courts, as he has seemed determined to do with deportations.…
Yves here. This is a fascinating little study. While correlation is not causation, the finding makes a certain amount of sense. Shopping districts that have stores with character and the…
Amid widespread economic weakening, due in no small measure to destructive Trump policies such as slashing and burning of Federal agencies that provide important public and business-boosting services, and supply-chain-cracking…
Natalie Sherman BBC News Amber Walliser A few days after Donald Trump won the US presidential election, Amber Walliser stocked up, spending $2,000 (£1,538) on appliances she believed would get…
Yves here. I suspect readers will have a field day with this article. A group of Serious Economists, including some American ones (Barry Eichengreen, Simon Johnson, and Ken Rogoff) are…
Yves here. For those living in Asia and other parts of the world where big cities generally = bad to dangerously bad air, the idea of putting more stuff in…
Yves here. Below, Andrew Korybko looks at whether Russia will take the logical next steps in its war of continuing to move further West. Notice that one of the logical…