The Collateral Damage to Children’s Education During Lockdown
High-quality before and after tests in the Netherlands suggest at-home lockdown education was a complete bust for primary school kids.
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Jobs Picture Emerges of Weird Recovery to Historically Awful Level
Jobs not galore. And the target keeps moving.
Read more...How Twitter Affected the 2016 Presidential Election
Quelle surprise! Twitter helped Clinton in 2016. So why the hysterical censorship in 2020?
Read more...Residential Evictions Bearing Down on Many Tenants
Winter is coming, and unless something major changes, with it, evictions.
Read more...CalPERS: Poster Child of Private Equity Cargo Cultism
CalPERS’ zealous defense of private equity looks pathological. So we hazard a diagnosis.
Read more...How To Break the Covid Doom Loop
Are repetitive short lockdowns a viable way to tame Covid-19?
Read more...An Indictment of the “Standard Model” for Pension and Endowment Investing
A lucid and daming explanation of why public pension funds and other instutitional investors regularly fall short of popular indexes.
Read more...Low Labour Shortages Can Help Explain Sluggish Wage Growth
Real-time indicators based on qualitative survey data provided an overly optimistic picture of labour market conditions and wage growth in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
Read more...‘A Definite and Sustained Increase’: Europe Leads Record Single-Day Worldwide Covid-19 Infection Surge
Europe reported nearly 100,000 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday—more than in the U.S., India, and Brazil, the world’s Covid-19 case leaders
Read more...The US Excess Mortality Rate from COVID-19 Is Substantially Worse than Europe’s
Debunking yet another defense of the US’ abject Covid-19 performance.
Read more...Corralling the Facts on Herd Immunity
learing up some confusion on herd immunity, a key topic in Covid-19 policy debates.
Read more...Ilargi: Why Trump Will Win
A contrarian reading on Trump’s prospects.
Read more...CalPERS Cooks Its Books: Grossly Understated Investment Consultant Meketa’s Expenses in Annual Financials; Made a Criminal False Account by Burying the Cost
CalPERS violates accounting rules by hiding outside consulting costs in internal investment overheads. None of the possible reasons are good.
Read more...CalPERS’ Bad Numbers: CEO Marcie Frost’s Multi-Hundred Thousand /Year Advisor Randle Communications Missing from Board Reports
A remarkable series of accidents led to the CalPERS board not being told how much CEO Marcie Frost’s advisor Randle Communications costs.
Read more...What Rent Drop? Listed Prices Aren’t Budging Where COVID-19 Hit Hardest
New York City disproves popular beliefs about flight from cities and rent declines.
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