Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Read more...Another well-substantiated critique of CalPERS’ investment performance.
Read more...Why skeptics are correct to doubt the Biden Administration claims touting how well the economy had done under its stewardship.
Read more...Financial Conditions loosen further: credit markets blow off the Fed to make sure “higher for longer” gets entrenched? That would be funny.
Read more...Ukraine’s local authorities are undes serious budget stress despite government assurances of support
Read more...Flu vaccine upselling as yet another chapter in medicine, American-style.
Read more...Deaths of despair turn out to be more widespread than thought earlier. Yet lack of interest in this collective tragedy persists.
Read more...In “Crossings,” Ben Goldfarb explores the science of road ecology, or how roadways affect plants and animal life.
Read more...A year of health-insurance adjustments pushed down core CPI and core services CPI; inflation adjustments swing the other way next month.
Read more...The commodity price break, which worked its way down to consumers, is ending. What next?
Read more...The impenetrability of this continuously expanding Ptolemaic New Keynesian monetary paradigm is maddening.
Read more...Recession complacency means things are wobblier than they seem.
Read more...Matt Bruenig responds to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s thoughts on his recent analysis of the flaws in the methodology used to argue that offspring benefit from married parents.
Read more...Reaching not-necessarily-sound conclusions from turning a supposed lie-detecting AI on CEO earnings calls and analyst ratings.
Read more...Even though bringing up kids with two parents is generally better than one, the analyses nvestigating the pro-marriage hypothesis are lousy.
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