Category Archives: Dubious statistics

Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery

Inflation hawks are winning. A ‘beggar thyself’ race to raise interest rates has begun. But this response slows economic growth.

Covid Sightings: Omicron Reinfections, Brain Effects, Shabby US Performance, Western Australia Border Controls

There’s enough new Covid news as to merit some focus on the bigger developments…so have at it!

A Facet of Late-State Capitalist Failure: Operational Breakage

Are seemingly increasing operational failures a sign of a bigger pathology?

Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There

A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet

Covid Situation Continuing to Develop Not Necessarily to the Officialdom’s Advantage

The new Covid news isn’t better than the old Covid news, and some is actually disconcerting.

Bad as QE Was, Unwinding It Rapidly Could Be Worse

Getting out of super low interest rates and unwinding QE is proving to be easier said than done.

McKinsey: Net-Zero By 2050 Needs $9.2 Trillion Annual Investment

McKinsey gives a not surprisingly big estimate for the cost of energy transition. But it’s unlikely to have considered radical conservation.

EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

Not surprisingly, it’s easier to move goalposts and designate gas and nuclear power as sustainable than get serious about cutting consumption

How 5G Puts Airplanes at Risk – An Electrical Engineer Explains

More on the 5G rollout controversy.

Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”

The Covid spin-doctoring machine is staring to emit smoke.

Patient, Beware: Some States Still Pushing Ineffective Covid Antibody Treatments

We warned from Omicron’s onset that most monoclonal antibodies would be ineffective, yet lots of MDs have not gotten the memo.

More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”

A lot of the misunderstanding of Omicron is actively cultivated.

The Fed Sets Out to Kill the Economy to Save It

The Fed is trying to solve an economic problem that is largely outside its reach.

More Omicron: Diabetics Appear Even More Vulnerable as Diabetic Ketoacidosis Strikes

A wee update on the state of Omicron.

Life Insurer: Deaths Among Working Age Americans Up 40% Under Covid

Experts dispute the idea that Covid is sparing the non-elderly.