Yves here. To be clear, I added to Rajiv Sethi’s headline to make the core issue explicit. JD Vance at least once described long form how universities needed to be…
One way to get through our political turmoil is to read but not listen. Trump Derangement Syndrome, something I am not willing to fully understand, is definitely aggravated by listening. …
Russian officials, now including Putin himself, have responded negatively to the US-Ukraine ceasefire proposal, which is hardly a surprise, since Russian officials have been saying “No ceasefire” every time the…
Yours truly, like many Americans, tends to tune out Federal budget funding cliffhangers as largely theatrics. This is not one of those times. The currently proposed continuing resolution, which the…
While the programmability features of CBDCs have generated considerable alarm, it’s a very different story for the stablecoins that the US government seeks to regulate with its “GENIUS” act. The…
Yves here. The article below documents, using donation sources and policy actions, how despite the notion that the retirement of Mitch McConnell would allow for meaningful changes in US priorities.…
Yves here. Oddly, this useful post entirely omitted the words “monopoly” and “oligopoly”. Is there some weird code of omerta in Europe about their use? We’ve been able to see…
Mr. Market falling out of bed due significantly to the Trump tariff whiplash has freed the business media to go with both barrels after Trump economic policies. Some headlines in…
Yves here. Richard Murphy sets forth the extent to which disability in the UK is due to poor mental health, as in a lot. Jonathan Haidt has argued that the…
Yves here. This article provides some vignettes about the way Trump tariffs, both the (probable) fact of their imposition and the whipsawing over them is wreaking havoc with successful small…