Buyers’ Strike? Mortgage Applications Drop 8% Below 2019, as Home Buyers Get Second Thoughts about “Raging Mania”
Falling mortgage applications and rising home inventories signal a coming housing market pullback.
Read more...Falling mortgage applications and rising home inventories signal a coming housing market pullback.
Read more...The Covid infection rates in the UK, despite higher vaccination rates than America, are a danger in and of itself and a warning to the US.
Read more...As it turns out, bribing people to get vaccinated with lottery tickets isn’t a comprehensive approach.
Read more...Covid and other major political challenges show that devising policies isn’t the hard part: it’s getting the public to go along.
Read more...Inflation may have you freaked out, but there are bigger threats on the horizon.
Read more...Vaccine enthusiasm has blinded people who should know better to Covid downside risks. And as Taleb warned, tails are fat.
Read more...New York State and J & J Agree on an opioids settlement, which should increase pressure for a global, multi-state settlement with the opioids industry.
Read more...Sierra Leone so far has had some Covid success despite low vaccination rates, and it illustrates the challenges poor countries face.
Read more...How the ralllying cry of “Follow the science” is looking more and more like sloganeernig as opposed to best practice.
Read more...The Covid pandemic has created a hinge moment of change, in which governments and citizens have demonstrated their ability to undertake reforms which would have been impossible before the pandemic.
Read more...The pandemic is largely to be over in the Global North, at least among the vaccinated…or so it seems.
Read more...If you can’t afford a fancy air purifier, here is a low-cost DIY alternative.
Read more...The increasingly dominant Delta variant: Vaccines and transmissibility (especially through children) during “Vaccine Summer.”
Read more...This column finds a significant increase in drug prescriptions and hospitalizations following mass layoffs, driven primarily by mental and cardiovascular conditions
Read more...Romanov-like efficiency…
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