A New Era of Endless Labor Shortages? A Critical Analysis of McKinsey’s New Report
A McKinsey report focusing on an extremely high job vacancy ratio in recent years cherry-picks data about the state of the U.S. labor market.
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Biden: Strategic Projections of Confidence
The effort to shore up Biden’s flagging Presidential candidacy is a case study of the role of confidence and commitment in campaigns.
Read more...Survey Trolls, Opt-In Polls, and the New Era of Survey Science
As polling methods evolve, it can be hard to distinguish solid survey findings from those that dissolve under scrutiny.
Read more...Layoffs, Retirement, and Post-Pandemic Inflation
Finally, a look at how Covid-related early retirement has contributed to our recent inflation.
Read more...“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Some updates on long Covid make for an indictment of US public health. Not that that should come as a surprise.
Read more...Research on Earth’s Raging Heat of 2023-24 Is Picking Up
La Niña will most likely quell a stretch of global record heat, but human-produced greenhouse gases loom as large as ever.
Read more...Battles Brew Over Radioactive Wastewater Discharge from Shuttered Nuclear Plants
New York State is trying to bar radioactive wastewater releases from out-of-service nuclear plants, as proponents insist they are safe.
Read more...Status of Banks’ Unrealized Losses in Q1: Worsened After Brief Rate-Cut-Mania Relief
US banks are still sitting on losses, with Fed relief nowhere in sight.
Read more...Remember Headlines 2 Weeks Ago, Labor Market “Suddenly” Weakens as Unemployment Claims “Spike”: It Just Got Unwound
A wee unpacking of unemployment data to show how Fed rate cut cheerleaders are still ahead of themselves
Read more...Gresham’s Law Comes for Science
Science publication has become so corrupted that entire journals have been shut down over running fake research. How did we get here?
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Rich Are Different!
A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.
Read more...An Iowa Farm County Seeks Answers Amid Cancer Rates 50% Higher than National Average
More evidence on cancer clusters in the Corn Belt, and the difficulty of rallying official interest and help.
Read more...Why the IEA is Wrong About Peak Oil Demand
Why peak oil, like Godot, keeps not arriving.
Read more...Oh Deary, Where Did My Rate Cuts Go? Fed’s Wait-and-See Now Entrenched? And Suddenly Lots of Talk About “Rate Hikes”
What Fed chair Powell said about rate hikes, no rate cuts, rate cuts, and the QT slowdown while getting rid of MBS entirely
Read more...Standard Chartered Says Peak Oil Demand Is Not Imminent
The much predicted peak oil is running behind schedule, to the detriment of the planet.
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