Finance

At the winners party, 50-50 starting at noon ET today (PredictIt): There has been a gap since midnight this AM. In the last 90 days: […]

Nationalism is the support of one’s national interests, often to the detriment of the interests of other nations. Defense and nationalism often go hand in […]

The attack affected the online services of all major Russian banks, national payment systems, social networks and messengers, government services, and a host of other […]

Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollinators without contact (press release) University of Bristol Killer Whales Sink Yacht in Med: ‘I Didn’t Know What […]

We also show that statistical and productivity factors do not represent convincing drivers of real interest rates in the long run. That’s from a new […]

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I: In order to get the needed workers, the weapons manufacturers started paying their workers higher wages. This […]

1. Don’t Expect Too Much From World’s End is a great movie. Romanian, weird, funny. 2. Dual Beveridge curve? 3. How good is stretch pricing? […]

Yves here. For those under advanced age, it may seem pointless to spend too much time discussing Medicare. But apart from the fact that it […]

Economic education has serious problems. Doctoral programs produce mathematicians and mathematicians with little experience price theory. At the graduate level, social regulation (“market failure!”) and […]

Jeffrey Clemens points us to some of the nurses who organized the NYTimes editorial about the possibly stolen election in Venezuela. The episode begins logically […]