High and low splits, and other stories (from my email)
This is all from an anonymous reader, not me, but I won’t back down: “Hello Tyler, I enjoyed your post – I’m tired of this […]
Trump Prediction Market Meltdown: COB 1 August 2024
From PredictIt Presidential Election Winner, 54 Dem / 48 Rep: Source link
Eight-year-old DNS “Sitting Ducks” vulnerability exploited to hijack web domains with impunity
DNS hacks usually fall into obvious types, such as DNS poisoning (manipulating DNS records to redirect users), domain hijacking (adding malicious subdomains to a DNS […]
US Trades Cyber Criminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap – Krebs on Security
Twenty-four prisoners were released today in an international prisoner swap between Russia and the West. Among the 8 repatriated Russians were several convicted hackers. In […]
Teaching Economics – Econlib
In his excellent post titled “Fixing the Economy, Try it Teaching Economists,” Alex Salter does a good survey of some of the best books for […]
CrowdStrike failure: the beginning of the end of software without guarantees?
Humans still have something to say in the age of AI Besides the failure of CrowdStrike and the systemic problems affecting the tech industry, the […]
“Yellen Condemns Trump’s Conflict on Dollar Hurting US Manufacturing”
That’s the subject of an article by Christopher Condon, in Bloomberg a few days ago. What is the evidence? Figure 1 shows the trade-weighted dollar-denominated […]
Tax Rates, Children, and the Independent
One of the many difficulties that comes with trying to use polling data to measure “public opinion” (whatever that means) is that you can get […]
Mark Skousen on free trade (from my email)
Why do most economic historians ignore the benefits of the largest free trade area in history: within the US! Thanks to the “quiet” commerce clause […]
Will the public nature of ransom payments change the CISO’s strategy around payments?
“Manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sectors have been the top targets of ransomware attacks, with the energy industry experiencing a 500% year-over-year increase as critical infrastructure […]