Does increasing labor fragmentation lead to greater privatization?
That’s the theme of my latest Bloomberg column, here’s an excerpt: Consider business. For decades now, big business has been on the rise in the […]
Month: August 2024
Class Traitors Casey and Calley Explain How Big Food and Big Pharma Are Making Americans Unhealthy Tucker
Reader flora recommended this Tucker Carlson interview with highly recommended sister and brother Casey and Calley Means, both of whom were well-paid, respected career tracks. […]
AWS environments were compromised with exposed .env files
Lateral movement within AWS environments In the hands of experienced hackers, leaked secrets can be very powerful and dangerous. For example, the attackers behind this […]
Should monetary policy be implemented by economists?
In a recent interview by Alex TabarrokI saw this exchange: Auren Hoffman (52:52.27) Now, your colleague, Tyler Cowen, has just made the argument that […]
EJ Antoni: “Manufacturing is in the economy”
From X, Thursday: This is more than funny: industrial production and energy use saw another major downward revision, and Jul’s print still comes in negative […]
*Hidden Victims* – Side Rebellion
The author is Cormac Ó Gráda, a famous Irish economic historian, and the subtitle is The Sicilian Casualties of the Two World Wars. This is […]
Mass layoffs and layoffs in Wisconsin
A few days ago, Eric Hovde talked about the coming mass layoffs. I couldn’t figure out what you were talking about; Here are some indicators […]
New Zealand fact of the day
In the year to June, 80,200 New Zealanders moved abroad, almost double the numbers before the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, only 24,900 returned, according to Stats […]
Links 8/18/2024 | bare capitalism
The banana apocalypse is coming. Can we stop at this? ZME Science Can Art Save the “Post-Apocalyptic” Salton Sea? Sapiens The epidemic Structure and inhibition […]
In Praise of the Strange | bare capitalism
By Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, professor of English at Central Michigan University, horror editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and founder and president of […]