Yves here. Tom Neuburger describes how Elizabeth Warren, who swore fealty to capitalism, found her tender faith to be misplaced. As most of you know, the Trump Administration is shuttering…
By Matthias Kaldorf, Research Economist Deutsche Bundesbank, and Matthias Rottner, an economist at the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements. Originally published at VoxEU. Climate policies…
The caliber of discourse has degenerated at Naked Capitalism in the wake of Trump taking office and his multi-front attack on government operations and legal agreements, from trade pacts to…
In the old days of the econoblogosphere, there were regular and often intense exchanges about what the decent-sized community of finance practitioners, economists, journalists, and other experts trying to understand…
Yves here. It’s important to keep shredding defenses of the Musk wrecking ball operation. If he really care about cost reduction, the Pentagon and related military spending would be top…
By Lambert Strether Ruling on a late Friday request by 19 mostly Democrat State Attorney’s General in State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, Judge Paul Engelmayer of the…
Lambert here: If Bird Flu achieves human-to-human transmission, we won’t be having an origins controversy: We will have done it to ourselves as the outcome of an enormous experiment on…
Yves here. The need for and extent of Medicaid is a yet another symptom of how the US medical system is profit and not patient health driven. Here in Thailand,…
Yves here. With Trump news consuming the air supply, it seemed useful to look at some of the wobbles among what passes for leadership across the pond. Pretty much no…
By Lambert Strether. Readers, my head cold seems to be on the downslope, oh joy. Anyohw, I started on-time today, then thought I would have my feeds one last look……