Finance

In 2015 I wrote that Baltimore’s incarceration is down and crime is up and, as I predicted, Baltimore entered the…

‘Catnomics’: how Japan’s feline fixation became a multi-billion dollar industry The Guardian Where Are the Economies of Scale in Home…

Yves here. Although this article makes some useful observations, it also serves as another reminder of the distorted view many…

The math doesn’t add up and the logic doesn’t make sense. That would be the epitome of the current AI…

Real consumption is surprising, but the biggest personal income transfer is surprising, as well as downward revisions (and a lower…

Yves here. Because I’ve been paying so much attention to the war in Iran, I’ve been able to watch what’s…

An Australian man mistakenly walks a fashion show thinking the beach stairs are Firstpost American patriots are planning to build…

There is a common trope among people who have secured a debt that, until the debt is cleared, they never…

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Above all, we cover Ptolemaic Egypt. Here is a partial summary of the…

Yves here. Although this post is a very long write-up on the vampire Tony Blair, I hope readers outside the…