Category Archives: Economic fundamentals

The Oil & Gas Inflation Trap That No One Wants To Talk About

So much for concerns about climate change. The Biden Administration is doing what it can to lower oil and gas prices.

Why Elon Musk Isn’t Superman

Why Elon Musk, despite having built significant operating companies, is still mainly in the bezzle business.

US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well

Despite promoters’ claims, infrastructure projects often aren’t great public successes.

This Reddit Lament Sums Up Wonderfully What Lots of Home Buyers Will Grapple with as Housing Market “Normalizes” and Work from Home Fizzles

As Covid-exodus home purchases peters out, over-eager buyers are waking up with hangovers.

IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean

The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling

How Uber keeps pumping hot air into a financially flaccid business.

The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far

Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.

Globalization, Specialization, and the Division of Labour

A new angle on why workers lose out as globalization increases.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Six: With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics

Uber continues to hemorrhage cash and rack up impressive negative operating margins, yet the press eats up its accounting misdirection.

China’s Industrial Slowdown Could Kill The Commodity Rally

Many commentators have fixated on levitating US securities markets, ignoring softening growth in Asia that is now hitting commodity prices

If the Food Supply Chain Collapses Will the Public Finally See Through Brexit?

So is a long expected Brexit disaster finally about to happen, now that Brits believe the disruptions are past?

Central Banks Must Address Pandemic Challenges

Central banks in developing countries must use monetary policy to enhance fiscal space and support relief, recovery and transformation.

Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers

Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench