Update on Supervillains (maybe that’s you)
Regulatory price controls will also prevent companies from developing new drugs. A study I co-authored estimates that 135 fewer drugs will hit the market by […]
Month: July 2024
Top 30 Companies Hiring From Anywhere
Bezbod / Shutterstock.com Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on FlexJobs.com. Jobs from anywhere lets you take your work wherever you want to go. Having […]
Climate Change is Coming to Hospitals
In August 2023, time was running out for health workers along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Hospital administrators and staff had to decide how to prepare themselves, […]
Matt Yglesias on neoliberalism and economic growth
And it’s worth asking: Is it true that since 1974, the policy debate in the United States has been dominated by a “growth at all […]
Cisco Talos analyzes attack chains, network ransomware tactics
To avoid detection, ransomware actors use “defensive evasion techniques” such as disabling or modifying security software, including anti-virus programs and scoring solutions. They also try […]
Narco-pentecostalism in Brazil?
Reports that a powerful Rio drug lord known for his extremist beliefs ordered the closure of Catholic churches near his citadel have hurt worshipers and […]
Ransomware attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in a year-old backup
Security intelligence firm Group-IB reports that attackers from a newly formed ransomware group – EstateRansomware – exploited a year-old vulnerability (CVE-2023-27532) in backup software from […]
Nepotism and global politics – Econlib
I think most readers don’t spend much time thinking about nepotism. In this post, I will not try to convince you that racism is good […]
Bryan Caplan on YIMBY in the NYT
Here is one episode: Few appreciate that housing overregulation has blocked the old American way: moving to a higher-income part of the country to secure […]
Rapid inflation in June | Econbrowser
CPI m/m (headline, total) below consensus (-0.1% vs +0.1%, +0.1 vs +0.2, respectively). Figure 1: Accelerated inflation per Eeckhout (2023) T=12, a=4, for CPI (blue), […]