The latest on the seemingly never-ending Kentucky Retirement Systems case, Mayberry v. KKR.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World’s Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
Harvard’s Greg Mankiw is taken to task by Serious Economist Peter Bofinger for some major howlers in Mankiw’s textbooks.
Shutting Off Comments
Comments are off until futher notice.
The Clams of Poland’s Municipal Water Plants (and Other Biosensors)
Biosensors can be defined as systems that detect chemicals using living organisms, or as machines. Whole-animal biosensors can detect Covid.
The Top 10 Weather and Climate Events of a Record-Setting Year
In an all-around bizarre and largely unpleasant calendar year, extreme weather and climate-related changes contributed to the woes of 2020.
Economist Dennis Snower Says Economics Nears a New Paradigm
A perhaps too-upbeat take on the possibilty of big changes in the economics profession.
Epidemiological and Economic Consequences of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Another look at Covid containment strategies.
A Festive Message on Behalf of DiEM25 for 2021: “Because Things Are the Way They Are, Things Will Not Remain the Way They Are.” B. Brecht
Is Brecht our guide to 2021?
2021 Will Be Volatile
Richard Murphy’s 2021 forecast.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/31/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m being extremely lazy in the run-up to New Year’s. See you next week! –lambert. Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 Not exactly holiday material, but it has to be done. Drops across the board, which I assume is entirely a holiday-driven reporting issue. At reader request, I’ve […]
Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
