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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Two days into the week and I’ve got to do a pantry clear-out on Politics! –lambert Nightingale duet (the Macaulay Library’s classification system is really obsessive and excellent). Thanksgiving data.…
Yves here. I’ve sometimes had readers take me to task for pointing out that 1. the EU has the much stronger hand in the Brexit negotiations and 2. the EU has, with only a very…
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Greg Fleming, Rockefeller Capital Management, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including the podcast extras on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, Bloomberg, and…
Consider all of these deals: The spinout of Blackrock from Merrill Lynch; the purchase of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America; the sale of the Miami Marlins baseball team; the conversion of the Rockefeller Family…
What dinosaur eggs reveal about ancient parenting styles National Geographic Wells Fargo’s struggle to escape the dog house isn’t over yet FT New Energy Giants Are Renewable Companies: Iberdrola, Enel, NextEra, Orsted Bloomberg The futuristic…
America’s slow motion public pension crisis illustrates how the US has become a “can’t do” nation, one that would rather pretend that real problems don’t exist or at best pretend that bandaid-on-gunshot-wound-level solutions will work.…
Yves here. Not surprisingly, young workers have been hit even harder than the population as a whole by Covid. The Economic Policy Institute filled in the picture for the US as of October: Across the…
The rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus meant that by mid-March 2020 the government had stopped outdoor sports from being played in England. Since then, football has resumed behind closed doors with no fans in…
A key issue for central banks is understanding exactly how their monetary policy works. Monetary policy affects firms’ investment through both an interest rate channel and a balance sheet channel. First, through the interest rate…
Antitrust in the digital economy: Views of leading economists on the market dominance of technology giants In October 2020, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the technology…