A year of health-insurance adjustments pushed down core CPI and core services CPI; inflation adjustments swing the other way next month.
Thursday, January 1, 2026
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2023
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September Producer Prices Confirm Tailwind of Falling Commodity Prices Has Ended
The commodity price break, which worked its way down to consumers, is ending. What next?
UK Palestine Groups To Defy Suella Braverman’s Crackdown
Quelle surprise! The UK Home Office is trying to use pro-Palestine protests as an excuse to suppress speech.
Your Devices Spy Even More on You: Barometric Readings and Google’s Passkey Default
Some sightings on the “your smartphone is a spy” front.
With Whales in Trouble, Conservationists, Fishers, and Others Team Up to Protect Them
A California program aims to help the fishing industry and marine wildlife adjust to warming oceans. Whales as a case study.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/11/2023
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Beware Climate Finance Charade
Finance has increased, not reduced, greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the industry is bizarrely touted as part of the solution.
Why Don’t Americans Trust Scientists? Or Do They? And Why This Matters
A paper on trust in scientists with respect to climate change overeggs its data in its Abstract. Hhhm.
The Silence of the Bears – Russia Is Reorienting Towards the Arabs
Russia, which has tried to be even-handed in the Middle East, now looks to be moving into the pro-Arab camp.
In the Footsteps of Ptolemy: The ‘Science of Monetary Policy’ and the Inflation of 2021-2023
The impenetrability of this continuously expanding Ptolemaic New Keynesian monetary paradigm is maddening.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/10/2023
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Exxon, Apple and Other Corporate Giants Will Have to Disclose All Their Emissions Under California’s New Climate Laws – That Will Have a Global Impact
An assessment of new California emissions disclosure legislation.
