Over the past year Milei’s government has managed to slash inflation as well as post Argentina’s largest ever annual trade surplus. But can it turn round the industrial downturn it itself unleashed?
Read more...A climate-change-driven insurance and eventual mortgage/housing price crisis is getting momentum. And unlike 2008, price recovery is unlikely
Read more...How some ideas for bolstering Europe’s position in the Trump era are not as well thought through as they ought to be.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Yanis Varoufakis on Trumponomics; DOGE not putting up the numbers on fraud; Zephyr Teachout on the real powers the Democrats have ~
Read more...Will RFK, Jr., tackle the many health-harming the practices around industrial animal farming?
Read more...Global supply chain expansion slowed to crawl speed after the 2008 crisis. But that did not translate into much reshoring.
Read more...A bug or a feature? The Trump plan to cap NIH/NSF grant indirect overheads is a gut punch to the economics of top universities.
Read more...Bird Song of the Day Patient readers, I apologize for the enormous typo. This is what I (and you) get then I deviate from my standard template. –lambert Brown Thrasher, Sippo Lake–Exploration Gateway, Stark, Ohio, United States. * * * By Lambert Strether There’s a quotation from John D. MacDonald’s Pale Grey for Guilt that […]
Read more...How the engineering ideal in biology, already taken further than is realistic, has become a foundation for the quest for eternal life.
Read more...A look at the legality of Trump tariffs. Sadly, another proof that international law does not count for much in practice.
Read more...The Fed vigorously backpedaled on further cuts, pivoting to wait-and-see, due to long-term rates signaling inflation concerns.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics ~
Read more...Many in the West now deny imperialism. But even the Economist now sees Trump’s revival of this US legacy.
Read more...“There is a legal and judicial offensive under way in Washington to accuse the former president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of having made pacts with drug traffickers.”
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