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St. Louis and the NY Feds have new nowcasts. Figure 1: GDP (bold black), Survey of Professional Forecasts Average forecast for August (tan), GDPNow for […]
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New Ivanti CSA bug under active exploit
In January, after a series of attacks that exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure, CISA took the unusual step of […]
Michigan Consumer Sentiment Up, Expectations of Lower Income
Figure 1: University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment (blue, left scale), Conference Board of Consumer Confidence (tan, left scale), both deflated and normalized by standard deviation […]
My TedXBillings Talk – Schneier on Security
About Bruce Schneier I am a public interest professional, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I have been writing about security issues […]
Is the American dream alive?
Free media debate. “Tyler Cowen, Katherine Mangu-Ward, David Leonhardt, and Bhaskar Sunkara criticize the state of the economy.” Here’s a video, for Free Press subscribers […]
On Pigouvian taxes: A reply to Scott Sumner
Responding to two blog posts by me again Kevin Corcoran in skepticism about Pigouvian taxes, Scott Sumner gives the example of a density tax in […]
Friday various links
1. “I can’t tell you why Brazilians can’t afford cheap and safe sunglasses.” From an economist. 2. Brutalist KFC. 3. “These results strongly suggest that […]
A new cryptomining campaign infects WebLogic servers with the Hadooken malware
Hadooken hosts cryptominer and ransomware links One of the features stored within Hadooken is a cryptocurrency mining system that is distributed across three different areas […]
The Political Economy of Concentration: Expertise and Comparative Advantage
In our previous post, we introduced EconLog readers to the possibility of using Mother again Mother is coming back. This post continues that discussion. As […]
The First Year of Georgia’s Medicaid Workforce Is Wrapped in Red Tape
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