Book Review: The Surpisingly Imprecise History of Measurement
Why measurement is hard!
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Read more...The more you look at the G7 Russian oil price scheme, the worse it appears.
Read more...The US gets out of bed to go after some illegal foreign trade subsidies. Sadly this sort of thing does not happen very often.
Read more...Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.
Read more...The Montreal Protocol — designed to save the ozone layer — is also averting other global warming/climate damage.
Read more...It isn’t surprising that IMF funds to Ukraine are lost in action. What is surprising is the IMF isn’t pretending to care.
Read more...America is rotting from the top, witness the arrogance and incompetence of our elites. But are we also faling short on skilled workmen?
Read more...Preoccupied with ‘credibility’ and reputations, central banks are again driving the world into recession, financial turmoil and debt crises.
Read more...Truss’ legacy will be one of a tanking pound, soaring inflation, and a seemingly inevitably recession.
Read more...“Price gouging from Big Oil is unacceptable and that’s exactly why we need a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax.”
Read more...Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort
Read more...The UK is in sorry shape…..and is looking like the canary in the economic coal mine.
Read more...Rigid definitions of obesity can both restrict care for some and produce unwarranted alarms for others.
Read more...The Bank of England has been doing less than believed to rescue the gilts market. But stil not a good look.
Read more...Plastic damage to oceans is getting worse. But do we have adequate remedies, even if we had the will to implement them?
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