Finance

1. Simon Kuper on the method of learning chaos (FT). 2. “Did the furniture carver at Crouch End break the code on human writing at […]

The Forgotten History of the Foreign Financial Crisis How the world’s oldest bank brought a city to its knees FT The weather The limits of […]

In the United States, could it be a suburb of Columbus, Ohio? Or maybe Knoxville, Tennessee, not too far from the country’s population center? Those […]

This is the subject of my latest column for Bloomberg, and here is one excerpt: What do the numbers show? A new study from the […]

As reported by Rosstat, via TradingEconomics: On an annualized basis, this is 14%. Y/Y inflation is 9.1%. The standard policy rate stands at 18%. If […]

Weekly Lewis/Mertens/Stock and Baumeister/Leiva-Leon/Sims indexes, plus Torsten Slok index. Figure 1: Lewis/Mertens/Stock Weekly Economic Index (blue), and Baumeister/Leiva-Leon/Sims Weekly Economic Conditions Index for US and […]

“We are increasing surveillance, partly to increase security, but also to prevent Swedish child soldiers who have been hired to come to Copenhagen to carry […]

1. LLM is weak, but you can fake it in various ways. There will be more of this. 2. Economics Themed Comedy Show in NYC […]

When I travel abroad, I often get recommendations on where to eat, what to do and what to read and watch from Sam Mendelsohn. Not […]

Guarded with Thailand’s ‘Anti-Monkey Unit’ fighting to keep monkeys at bay in Lopburi ABC Australia (Kevin W) What explains the differences in sexual feelings between […]