A meant-to-be-heartening story of post-flooding recovery efforts in Appalachia: is this the coming new normal in climate-change-exposed areas?
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Where Did U.S. Public Health Go Wrong?
How good coordination of public health with private medical practice never came together in the US and got worse in recent decades.
“Might the US Be About to Fall Off an Economic Cliff?”
The respected Atlanta Fed NowCast is scary bad, as in economic shoes about to drop in a big way bad.
Checking In on the Democrats’ Search for the “Good Billionaires”
What role is elite reconciliation under Trump playing in the Democrats’ silence on the looting of country? And in the meantime, where shall the rest of us turn?
“SOTU” Reactions: Business Press Turning on Trump as Tariffs Whack Markets, Look Set to Increase Inflation, Approval Falls and Even Republicans Getting Restive
Despite the Republican applause during Trump’s State of the Union speech, the business press is sounding alarms.
Capitalism in Decay
A compact assessment of where capitalism is taking us.
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse
Our first warfare-focused Coffee Break: the U.S. nuclear football, the President’s sole power to use it, and public indifference towards it
New York Fed’s Measure of “Inflation Persistence” Nixes Friday’s Idea that YoY PCE Inflation Cooled, Using Same Data
Inflation Whack-A-Mole: price pressures shifted from housing to non-housing services and core goods.
Coca Cola: Made in Mexico, Apparently
As the world’s largest soft drinks manufacturer faces a consumer boycott in one of its largest global markets, its marketers come up with a cunning plan. But will it work?
The GENIUS Act: Setting the Stage for a Federal Bailout When Stablecoins Become Insolvent
Why the GENIUS Act does not live up to its pretenses of making stablecoins safe, thus setting the stage for a Federal bailout.
Twilight of the Woke, or How to Historicize with a Hammer
A review of Musa al Gharbi’s “We Have Never Been Woke” which chronicles the class and cultural hypocrisy of a new elite.
Fifteen Songs About Airplanes and Flight
One last aggregation…..
Coffee Break: Across the Pond
Our first UK/Europe-focused Coffee Break, which examines Europe’s self-inflected energy cost uncompetitiveness
