Regional COVID charts ~ DNC outbids Biden on climate (!) ~ Biden and Harris ~ Biden electoral map ~ Sanders and the telephone ~ Trump landslide? ~ Trump losing small-town America!? ~ Gorsuch on Title VII ~ Georgia voting debacle ~ Cheese ~ Oil tankers ~ Masks ~ Blood ~ Cats and “dateability”
Read more...Local markets, not supermarkets, are a key part of reviving city centres as the UK emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
Read more...CalPERS latches on to new, really bad investment ideas.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why people should be wearing masks. And yes, he provides a model.
Read more...More evidence that private equity underperforms on a risk-adjusted basis.
Read more...EPA issues cancellation order to attempt to overrrule Ninth Circuit dicamba opinion; plaintiffs’ lawyers file emergency motion.
Read more...Even before COVID-19, the world was facing a care crisis, a problem that is only worsening.
Read more...Yves here. As various analyses have shown, in many places, governments implemented lockdowns after citizens had started restricting their activities to avoid contracting Covid-19. It’s useful to see economists address the question of what the cost of doing nothing or very little would have been. By Adam Brzezinski, DPhil (PhD) candidate in Economics, University of […]
Read more...Wellie, the latest jobless claims data wan’t horrific, merely very bad
Read more...NY and CA cross on COVID chart ~ Biden slips cogs ~ Stacey Abrams waits by the phone ~ Trump rallly registration includes COVID disclaimer ~ GDP collapse animated, imports, rail ~ Protests everywhere on cross-country drive ~ Defunding the police ~ 90-year-old gamer ~ MMT ~ Quarantine reading
Read more...Amnesty International has yesterday launched a resource on global misuse of tear gas, in the US and elsewhere:
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