Tallying the Costs to Israel of Its Failed Iran Regime Change Operation
An early estimate of the economic costs to Israel of the Iran war show that recovery will be difficult if not impossible.
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A Possible Connection Between Mental Illness and Diet
On the mounting evidence that a ketogenic diet considerably can alleviate some debilitating mental health ailments, such as schizophrenia.
Read more...What if MAGA Has a Point About Science?
On the fallen legitimacy of science in the US, and what might be done about that.
Read more...Kennedy’s HHS Sent Congress ‘Junk Science’ To Defend Vaccine Changes, Experts Say
More on RFK, Jr. making shit up but attempting to wrap it in the mantle of science.
Read more...Rob Urie: Why Retaliation Rhymes with Negotiation, US – Russia Edition
On not-well-known elements of the US-Ukraine-Russia conflict, the fecklessness of the left, and the abject stupidity of Western leaders
Read more...“Is All Economic Growth Good?”
It can’t be said too often: what most economists call growth is too often what we here call groaf.
Read more...Golden Dome Dangers: How Trump’s Scheme Threatens to Make the US Less Safe
Why Trump’s Golden Dome is set to backfire, except for the grift, which is presumably the real point.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Lessons from Japan’s Massive Debt Hangover
While there are things the debt-addled West can learn from Japan, the dirty secret is they were in some key ways in better shape than we are.
Read more...MAHA Influencers, the Future of Public Health, and Longings for Immortality
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Report has dropped! The original document included phantom (hallucinated?) references, but those have been fixed apparently. Or maybe not. A graduate student who wrote a review with the same defects would get a flat “F”, but this does not seem to matter. Could AI (Algorithmic Intelligence) have had anything […]
Read more...Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Yet Another Rescue Coming
In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financiers.
Read more...Little Lost Lambda: How Any Randomized Controlled Trial or Opinion Poll Could Be Misleading
How an analytical simplification, of omitting lambda, a measure of inconsistency, can serious distort randomized clinical trial results.
Read more...James Galbraith: Wage Stagnation and Populism – A Comment on David Brooks and Noah Smith
David Brooks and Noah Smith defend neoliberal globalization by trying to ‘splain decades of worker wage stagnation.
Read more...Decades On, SSRIs Remain Mired in Mystery and Debate
Experts worry MAHA could wage a war on SSRIs. But some researchers have long questioned the drugs’ efficacy.
Read more...New SEC Chief on Board with Letting Retail Chumps Invest in Private Equity Even as Pros Like Kuwait Sovereign Wealth Fund Sound Red Alert
The SEC, in its munificence, is planning to allow more retail investors to be fleeced by private equity.
Read more...Ideology-Driven, Inflationary Trump Tax and Tariff Policies Losing War With Bond and Currency Markets
ump’s trade, tariffs and tax schemes are already starting to come apart. And he seems to have no Plan B.
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