Month: November 2024

From TradingEconomics on 10/25: The University of Michigan consumer sentiment in the US was revised up to 70.5 in October 2024 from 68.9, marking the […]

1. “Using spatial regression discontinuities and dynamic designs, we find that areas with a high housing history are very poor and rural today.” From the […]

From the team that brought you Hayek v. Keynes has an immigrant rap battle with “George Borjas,” “Garett Jones” and “Stephen Miller” in the group […]

Video shows a baby kangaroo outside in Colorado CNN (Dr. Kevin) US authorities capture and kill Instagram-squirrel BBC (furzy) 🙁 The Saga of a Famous […]

Workers missed an average of 19.4 days due to illness in 2023, according to Techniker Krankenkasse, the country’s largest public health insurance provider. Preliminary figures […]

October employment and September monthly GDP, for a set of variables tracked by the NBER’s BCDC: Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) activity from CES (blue), […]

That’s the subject of my latest column for Bloomberg, as the Cathedral reopens in December. The government wants to charge tourists five euros, but the […]

I recently read a novel by Herman Melville entitled “The Confidence-Man”. (At least I thought it was a novel when I picked it up, though […]