Category Archives: Guest Post

A Fragile Institutional Foundation Means Genomic Surveillance Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

Of the open source projects that are essential to genomic surveillance, one depends on a tiny team, the other depends on a single person. What happens when one of those projects goes down?

Links 4/9/2023

The Asymmetric Federal Reserve Objective

The Fed’s objective is asymmetric, with inflation overshoots being more costly than undershoots. Using data from the Summary of Economic Projections it shows that the Bernanke Fed was too hawkish, the Yellen Fed was too dovish, and the Fed under Jerome Powell has at times been too hawkish and too dovish.

Book Review: “The Great Displacement” Is a Must-Read

“The Great Displacement” argues that mass migration triggered by climate change will fundamentally rock U.S. society.

2:00PM Water Cooler 4/7/2023

~ Today’s Water Cooler: 🌡️ We are at 371 donors. 371 donors / goal of 375 = 98.93%. So there’s still time to move the needle on that last 0.07%! ~

As US and Canada Threaten to Sue Mexico Over Energy Policies, Mexico “Nationalises” Sizable Chunk of Electrical Grid

After years of confrontation and souring relations with Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, Mexico’s AMLO government has just agreed to purchase 80% of the company’s Mexican operations.