Links 8/6/2024 | bare capitalism
Operation Beluga — or how a Soviet icebreaker played music to thousands of whales trapped in the ice to save them from starvation ZMEScience (Dr. […]
Month: August 2024
Houston France markets everything
Houston First, the city’s tourism department, revealed that it is paying $90,000 a year for three years – meaning the city will invest a whopping […]
The Long-Term Effects of Preventing Affirmative Action in US Higher Education
This paper estimates the long-term impact of affirmative action bans on men and women from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups (URM) in the United States. […]
New Apache OFBiz vulnerabilities patched by old bugs are being exploited
It is unclear how many businesses use Apache OFBiz as many organizations may use it internally, but based on public data known users include large […]
Weekly Business Cycle Indicators – Data through 7/27
From Lewis, Mertens, Stock NY Fed WEI, and Baumeister, Leiva-Leon, Sims Economic Conditions Index: Figure 1: WEI (blue), WECI and 2% (tan), in %. Source: […]
Drafts Can Reduce Skin in Multi-Citizen Games
In the past 5 weeks, I have written two articles about the Hoover Institution’s online publication draft. Defining Ideas. The former filed a case against […]
Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Wins Ransom Records – Krebs on security
The ransomware team has been called The Dark Angels He made headlines last week when it emerged that the crime group had just received a […]
It was then, this is now, the German system
It was then, this is now, the German program – The Marginal REVOLUTION Thank you! You have been successfully added to the Marginal Revolution mailing […]
Fed Funds Path as of Noon ET
From CME: Figure 1: Effective Fed funds (bold black), as of 7/26 (teal), as of 8/2 (red), and as of 8/5 noon ET (blue), at […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/5/2024 | bare capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day The students are very happy with the mockingbirds and I will continue to make them. […]