Discuss.

Let us hope that none of the delegates need the services of a doctor or a pirogue while in town.

Bright Simons Writes [Bright Simons]: Is the World Bank Saving or Harming Ghana?

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Core cabal fighting crypto-crapto regulation.

He played a pivotal role in my early life.

Im forever grateful for what he did.

BREAKING: Tamir Morag of Channel 14 reports that the Israeli government has received word that the top echelon of the Israeli government and IDF will receive idictments from the ICC within the next week or so.

The individuals to be indicated include Netanyahu, Gallant, and…

The Fed may have its “favored” measure of inflation, but in a supply-shock-riven world, this is mine, not least as it proved its worth from day 1 of Covid.

And it is encouraging in March—underlying inflation remains
~3%—despite what any other measures say.

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… but not by him.

Can an informed Government supporter explain to me why his priority during an unprecedented national natural emergency should be yet another African diplomatic cocktail circuit trip ?

I increasingly despair of Jason. Here his metric is only total employment. He thus dismisses by implication all the macro benefits of the huge job US job reassortment, supported/driven by C19 unemployment benefits; good for productivity, wage equality, and ultimately, employment.

And worse, those same establishment figures who promote this act as supporting Ukraine also support the continued payment to Russia for energy by NATO of $4 for every $1 NATO sends to Ukraine in aid.

Can anyone (a US constitutional lawyer) explain why none of the SCOTUS Justices’ questions to Grumpy’s counsel at the Presidential immunity arguments hearings has probed the example of Watergate ?

Tough to watch.

But total respect to Prof. Fohlin.

Beyond signing pro forma “letters”, shockingly few economists put themselves on the line for anything. So here she gives a fine and all too rare example to the profession as a whole.

This initiative needs to be simultaneously addressed to the UK authorities, the major alternate jurisdiction for these loans.

Messianic now … ?

President Ruto says rains (deadly deluge) an answer to his prayers youtu.be/kZMkfuAYvQs?si… via YouTube

Seriously ? Now ? This guy is totally tone deaf.

By pointing to this as an “Act of God”—for which thanks—attention is diverted from the long-run misspecification of fiscal policy which is responsible for the damage done.