Economy

Social scientists use both controlled and natural experiments to estimate the impact of various sorts of public policies. One problem...

Yves here. This post is an interesting artifact of the persistence of reticence to criticize Israel for its open policy...

   At the Money: Stock Picking vs. Value Investing  with Jeremy Schwartz, Wisdom Tree. (February 7, 2024) How much...

Canada is delaying the expansion of its MAID (Medical Aid in Dying) program as they cannot find enough doctors willing...

We’ve all heard the adage “don’t sweat the small stuff.” (And if by some chance you’ve never heard it before,...

Yves here. Tom Ferguson, with Jie Chen, Paul Jorgensen, and now Matthias Lalisse, has built and maintained massive election databases...

ASIA:   Japan’s economy likely returned to growth in the October-December period, helped by a slight pick-up in foreign demand,...

There are many ways to privately improve public health. Such responses make use of local knowledge, entrepreneurship, and civil society...

    Back in the bad old days of mainframes, “Time-sharing” was how computing power and database storage were provided...

    Our story so far: In 2022, I signed up with Moment Motors to get in their queue for...