Coronavirus dashboard for year end 2022: becoming endemic, and still an important threat to seniors  – by New Deal democrat As we close out 2022, let’s look back at the overall picture for COVID. The best historical measure of actual infections is Biobot, which samples wastewater. This is because the advent of easy home testing one year ago meant that far fewer people have had “confirmed” cases this year in comparison to “actual” infections....

Economic modeling — a constructive critique If we have independent reasons to believe that the phenomena under investigation are mechanical in Mill’s sense, well and good: mathematical modeling will prove an apt mode of representation … But if we have independent reasons to believe that there is more going on in the phenomena under investigation than a mathematical model can suggest – that is, that the phenomena in question are not in fact mechanical in...

A room with a view . After almost forty years in Lund, yours truly returned to the town where he was born and bred — Malmö. Living on the top floor of this grandiose building, next to The Magistrate’s Park, and with The Opera and The Municipal Art Gallery just across the street, always convinces me that returning was a good decision … Happy New Year! Remember life is short, so dream big and make the most of your life!

Πού οφείλεται η εκρηκτική αύξηση του πληθωρισμού; ΑΠΟΨΕΙΣ Σταύρος Μαυρουδέας 20.12.2022 | 06:00 Η πληθωριστική έκρηξη που ξεκίνησε το 2021 περιορίζει δραματικά το λαϊκό εισόδημα. Ισοδυναμεί περίπου με τις μισθολογικές μειώσεις του πρώτου μνημονίου. Βέβαια στην ελληνική μπανανία ελάχιστα συζητείται πώς ξεκίνησε η αύξηση του πληθωρισμού. Η κυβέρνηση την αποδίδει σε εξωτερικούς παράγοντες (ουκρανικό), απαλλάσσοντας τον εαυτό της από ευθύνες. Η συστημική αντιπολίτευση την...

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from Peter Radford Is it just me? Or is the realm of punditry in a state of confusion? There seems to be an emerging consensus that something big is happening.  It’s just that we don’t quite know what.  The problem is that the template we are all applying is frayed if not shattered.  Consequently we are searching for the safety of explanations but finding that our questions do not elicit comfortable answers.  This is not a place we like to inhabit.  What are we to do? Let’s speculate....

Game-changer? Zoltan Pozsar thinks so. The Deep DiveZoltan Pozsar: G7 Investors Should Worry About Gold-Backed Renminbi Eclipsing Dollars, Commodity Encumbrance

Russia is a major metals producer and exporter. According to Institut Polytechnique de Paris, last year the country held a 13% market share for titanium production, 11.2% for nickel, 10.5% for platinum, 5.4% for aluminum, 4% for copper and 4.4% for cobalt. It is the world’s top producer of palladium, a rare metal used in car manufacturing, accounting for 37% of production in 2021.…Russia is not only a major producer of primary aluminum but it is also embedded in the global supply chains...

 Having posted review articles for the past couple of days I did wonder what I thought my most important post of the year was since many others seem to be working that theme at present. Somewhat randomly (meaning I did not go back and look at them all, and nor did I look at stats) I settled on this, which was published on the blog on 2 July 2022 having previously been on Byline Times:"Center-left" instead of "left"? It's simply moving the Overton window somewhat to the left after it having...