Based on just announced preliminary results, it looks like the US will have experiences negative GDP growth for the first two quarters of 2...

 Finally we have something sort of hopeful happen in the war in Ukraine that might help alleviate problems it has generated for much of the ...

 I have just read an obituary in today's Washington Post of Pat Michaels, who died a week ago of unreported causes at age 72. He was lon...

 While recovering from a bout of Covid-19 (getting there), I have found myself listening to a lot of music by Soviet/Russian composer, Dmitr...

 Peter Dorman had a post on this topic here a while back.  The inflation fallacy says that inflation doesn't affect real income, since a...

 Yes, I posted on this awhile ago, but at that time it was a maybe. Now he is in the air on his way, although, of course, to Israel and the ...

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 I have finished reading to my two younger grandsons the two Alice books by Lewis Carroll. I read the edition with commentary by the late ma...

At Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 1858 Now, as to the Dred Scott decision; for upon that he [Douglas] makes his last point at me. He boldly...

 Vladimir who? I appreciate that most readers have never heard of this individual. But this is the sign of a major new shift in the situatio...

 

 Maybe. It is now reported that "talks are to resume," although most observers are not optimistic. But then today there is a repor...

 On his Marginal Revolution blog, Tyler Cowen describes the recent "purge" in the trucking industry. The pandemic shift in demand ...

 Probably the most famous characteristic of chaotic dynamics is the phenomenon known formally as sensitive dependence on initial conditions,...

 Robert (Bob) Haveman died on June 18, aged 85.  He had been at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1970, when I first met him, where ...