“Do External Yield Curves Predict US Economic Recession and GDP Growth?”
Yes! From Rashed Ahmed and Menzie Chinn, just published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. This paper was discussed earlier in this post; […]
A critical PyTorch flaw puts sensitive AI data at risk
Impure RPC function calls The vulnerability is located in PyTorch’s distributed Remote Procedure Call (RPC) component, torch.distributed.rpc. The component facilitates inter-process communication between the various […]
South Africa and its history
Almost three years earlier, the sombre Paul Kruger had warned that Britain would find conquering the Boer regions no easy task. In the sense that […]
The New York Times downplays the impact of source code leaks
Secondary threats Disclosure of source code stored in repositories like this could reveal vulnerabilities that attackers could use to launch additional attacks, security experts warn. […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/10/2024 | bare capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Sedge Warbler, ‘your’ Denmark. “Habitat: Swamp.” Virtuousic! ****** Patient readers, I’ve had a major editorial […]
“Why the Recession Hasn’t Happened”
That’s the headline of a Timiraos/WSJ article three days ago: Often in a recession recovery, households are more careful with spending and are more likely […]
More Firms (Doesn’t) Mean Better Competition
Mike Munger recently wrote about the misunderstanding of economic competition that many legislators and regulators seem to hold – the idea that improving competition means […]
Different links for Monday
1. The department of economics in Genoa has a diesel-electric submarine. 2. “In other words, most of the strange cosmic objects are still perfectly consistent […]
7 Great Ideas to Make Money Online
The Internet has opened many doors for those seeking financial independence. Making money online has become a way of life for many people. And since […]
The Russian Endgame in Ukraine and European Resistance to “Right Wing” Development: An Experiment in Thought
As many of you are well aware by now, the so-called European right wing has made significant, if not surprising, gains in the European parliamentary […]