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Dead fish are popping up all along the Hudson River New York Post (David L). Eeew. Nagaland dog meat: Animal rights groups hail ban as ‘major turning point’ BBC (David L) Take a Flight Over…
Yves here. We’ve been pointing out since virtually the inception of this website, that for many and perhaps most companies, the case for outsourcing and offshoring was weak, particularly if you took risks seriously, assuming…
By Thomas Neuburger. Produced by DownWithTyranny! Thanks to Trump’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 outbreak, the U.S. is on the verge of becoming the Typhoid Mary of major industrial nations Donald Trump’s resignation is a topic…
The many proposals for the COVID-19 recovery also include calls for green stimulus packages. Such packages are thought to both restart the economy as well as help it transition to a cleaner, more sustainable path…
Differences in regulated pharmaceutical prices within the European Economic Area create arbitrage opportunities that pharmacy retailers can access through parallel imports. For prescription drugs under patent, parallel trade affects the sharing of profits among an…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Our five problem states, with New York for comparison:…
Succinct Summations for the week ending July 3rd, 2020. Positives: 1. Second half begins on positive note, with Markets gaining for the week.2. Nonfarm payrolls rose 4.8M m/o/m, above expectations.3. Unemployment rate fell to 11.1%…
Kaushik Basu's time as World Bank chief economist inspired him to think radically about how to change the way the global economy works. He tells Tim Phillips about why public ownership and profit-sharing may be…
Yves here. We are on a holiday schedule through Monday. I nevertheless am busy with eldercare matters (interviewing new agencies, gah) which is why no original posts today. Hope your holiday is fun or at…
So, I am getting a little bored with the Orange monster. We haven’t really had snow in a while, and there is only so much beach driving one can do. (If I lived in Arizona,…