Finance

Yves here. It is worth pointing out that the bond and stock markets have broken with Trump’s election win. Granted, one could argue that some […]

Market like crazy (especially small caps),1. Freddie Mac (FMCC) and Fannie Mae (FNMA) recently gained 35% and 30% respectively on 2024 election issues 2. Commodities, […]

1. Edwin Frank, Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. Excellent short versions of various classic novels, including Machado de Assis, Mann’s Magic Mountain, […]

Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean The Great Failure: What the Pandemic Reveals About Whom America Protects and Whom it Leaves has many criticisms of how […]

Yves here. I hate to sound like a stickler about the Common Dreams post generated below. Trying to find differences between genodicers can sound like […]

We are witnessing a strange event that is not only affecting America but is currently looking very cruel in this country. (Before the fall of […]

The dollar rose to its highest level in two years and Wall Street was poised for big gains as Donald Trump’s historic victory in the […]

10 micro-exercises as effective as a 20 minute walk The Telegraph I tried to train my color vision. Here’s what happened to Sequencer Mag Climate/Environment […]

Yves here. I’m overdue for a post on the latest BRICS and why they like to underestimate the obstacles that member countries need to overcome […]

That’s the main topic of a labor market paper by Sahil Chinoy of Harvard University. Here is the abstract: We study political filtering in the […]