Month: September 2024

I was thinking about the unrealized gains tax after Taylor Swift’s endorsement today and I think I see a new problem that is different from […]

As I sit here writing this, I’m in the record/cocktail lounge drinking a negroni. One of the owners, who makes the best cocktails west of […]

1. Facts about Oregon: “Only 13% of people with PWUD knew that all drugs are prohibited.” 2. Ghana has returned to positive gdp growth (Bloomberg). […]

The full title of the paper is “Full discovery of directional selection fulfills ancient DNA’s promise to explain human adaptation.” It really has great authors, […]

Yves here. We have not written much about the BRICS project for a different currency because it seems to be very flexible, without the idea […]

Small Hippos and Elephants Once Roamed Cyprus, Until Humans Arrived Scientific Notices (Chuck L) Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Is Amazingly Scientifically Accurate, Mirroring Complex Atmospheric […]

Yves here. Although this post by Thomas Neuburger heavily quotes the interview of former Lt. Colonel Larry Wilkerson of Andrew Napolitano, I don’t see the […]

Next in JEL: Deep learning provides powerful ways to extract structured information from large-scale, unstructured and graphical data sets. For example, economists may wish to […]

Between 2004 and 2021, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the industrial price of energy tripled in nominal terms, or doubled compared to consumer prices. With […]