Event research of sorts
Big, sudden swings in election chances are not uncommon in American politics, although it seems we’ve had one recently. Here are some results, as reported […]
Singapore, Inc.
In a recent interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Former Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair discussed the principles of Lee Kuan Yew—the father of modern […]
Facing the NATO Military Summit in Washington
Yves here. While NATO plans to escalate the conflicts of the Collective West to the point where they are too wide to win, it is […]
Immigration policy, and should you love your country?
There is a long debate – centuries in fact – about whether you should consider your national (or regional) interest, or whether you should think […]
OpenSSH regreSSHion vulnerability puts millions of servers at risk
When first reported in 2006, this was described as a race condition that could lead to a denial of service (process crash) with possible arbitrary […]
Latest Wisconsin Macro Indicators | Econbrowser
Last week we got the GDP and wages and salaries for Q1, as well as the employment and coincident indicators for May. With this data, […]
Monday Diverse Links – Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Ronan McGovern in Finland and the two Baltics. 2. Was housing overbuilt in Nevada? 3. How much of the universe is intellectually readable? 4. […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/1/2024 | bare capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Very patient readers, I spent the day recovering from a bout of food poisoning I got last night (which was […]
The deep-rooted, continuing legacy of slavery in free labor markets
To engage with the larger literature on the economic consequences of slavery, we use antebellum census data to examine demographic differences at the frontier for […]
Puppies Behind Bars and the Question of the Role of Prisons
The media is in the “If it bleeds, it leads” business. As a result, many pressing social problems and promising initiatives get short shrift. Incarcerated […]