Year-over-year growth in consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, outpaced the pre-pandemic average. Month-over-month, seasonally adjusted, growth spiked.
Read more...Famed short seller Jim Chanos discusses the ever-rising role of fraud in the US financial system and his views of China.
Read more...No.
Read more...Covid-induced labor market tighteness is giving people with a disabilty more access to jobs than evah.
Read more...The pandemic is over when we say it’s over.
Read more...Making pie crust is harder than making a Corsi-Rosenthal box.
Read more...Let’s save some lives!
Read more...At long last we understand Covid’s mechanism of infection; it remains only to fund the nasal vaccine efforts to leverage our understanding.
Read more...School closures lead to significant and persistent productivity losses, and the effects will peak in 2067. Policies aimed at improving the quality of education and adult training will be needed to offset or at least alleviate the impact of the pandemic on human capital.
Read more...Protecting all workers from Covid infection isn’t even on the table.
Read more...Bit by bit, getting a clearer picture of long Covid.
Read more...Looking at the oft superficially discussed population and consumption levers in the climate change debate.
Read more...As Covid vaccines underperform and for some groups, present risks, an article in a prominent metical ethics journal calls for mandates to end.
Read more...A new analysis finds our inflation comes first from Covid/sanctions supply shocks and second, spending by the rich, not government spending.
Read more...“The pandemic is over.” No, it’s very not.
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