As of earlier tody, 4/29/20,. according to "Our World in Data" ourworldindata.org/coronavirus, there are currently nine nations th...

Not only is the current level of testing for the coronavirus insufficient, the tests themselves are flawed.  Read this summary by infectiou...

More than a century later, we still do not  know the origin of the Spanish flu, with at least three currently scientifically supported origi...

Republican rule in the US is a horror show.  We get incoherent ramblings from our president on injecting bleach into our veins , calls for t...

I am putting this up because I have been hearing seeing people making claims about this that do not agree with what I have just seen at Stat...

A half century ago today was the first Earth Day, which I paerticipated in while at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Although I did not...

Yes, earlier this afternoon, very briefly, western Canadian oil was selling for $ -0.15.  At least I saw a report of this.  The price may ha...

Yesterday morning, after reading the Sunday New York Times, I posted two pieces on EconoSpeak within a few minutes of each other.  One was a...

I posted the above chart four days ago in " From Social Distance to Social Justice " to illustrate Arthur Dahlberg's argume...

Seen in today's New York Times in Print :

The Times today ran a truly execrable article warning us that, once the virus has passed, we will suffer dire consequences from the runup o...

Yes, Trump is out to cut the roughly half a billion $ US contribution to the $6 billion budget of the World Hea viruslth Organization (WHO)....

I have previously posted on the highly swingy politicsal nature of southwestern Wisconsin, symbolized by the town there at the mouth of the ...

In the last two weeks of March and the first week of April, 2020 16.5 million new claims for unemployment were filed in the U.S. After the n...

The St. Louis FED has an economics blog : The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption in economic activity across the g...