by Calculated Risk on 10/29/2020 08:52:00 AM

Echoes of the past are spooking investors.

Dear patient readers, If you are reading this version of Links, that means I lost power!!! Sorry! Please amuse yourselves in the meantime. Scientists Are Freaking Out Over The First-Ever Footage of This Bizarre Squid Science Alert (David L) Weirdly, Monkeys Keep Domesticating Themselves. Huh. Popular Mechanics (resilc) American Honeybees Just Can’t Get a Break […]

We’ve all heard how U.S. leadership failed its citizens with its pandemic response. We had the playbooks, we had the money, we had the experts. We just … didn’t use them. How America Helped Defeat the Coronavirus*(Just not in the U.S.) Source: NYT

And it won’t come back even if and when he’s gone.

Yves here. The failed US effort to oust the government in Bolivia comes on the heels of other regime changes efforts not going according to plan. However, too many college tuitions depend on these machinations at least being attempted, so don’t expect anything to change soon. By Medea Benjamin, the cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and the author of several […]

The subtitle of this new paper is “Evidence From Washington State Administrative Records,” and the authors are Jennifer Wu, Chenoa Yorgason, Hanna Folsz, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jesse Yoder, and Andrew B. Hall.  Here is the abstract: A commonly expressed concern about vote-by-mail in the United States is that mail-in […]

Authored by Chris Farrell via The Gatestone Institute, Obama administration officials committed crimes against the constitution. They engaged in a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. Will they really get away with it? Forty government officials were indicted or jailed as a result of Watergate. White House staffers H.R. Haldeman and […]

Russia’s armed forces have benefited from a decade of investment, resulting in widespread modernization efforts and an increased defense-industrial base.  From hypersonic weapons to fifth-generation fighter jets to drones to advanced main battle tanks to new service weapons, Russia has been busy upgrading its military as geopolitical tensions soar.  Some of these new weapons were […]

Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via The Epoch Times, A collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family mysteriously vanished from an envelope sent to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the host said on Wednesday night. Carlson’s team allegedly received the documents from a source on Monday. At the time, Carlson was on the West Coast […]

Fall enrollment has plunged, some colleges are shuttering operations, revenues across the entire higher education industry are collapsing, and the shift from physical to virtual education due to the virus pandemic could prick the next bubble: the student housing debt market.  Our warning about the coming implosion of the higher education industry (see here from 2014), as a whole, has […]

Authored by Major Danny Sjursen (ret.) via AntiWar.com, Who needs dystopian novelists or absurd satirists when otherwise banal bureaucrats of the U.S. national security state do the job for them? It’s an old story with a new tech-savvy twist. The late great Joseph Heller knew a thing or two about war’s foundational farce. He joined the army […]

Proof continues to emerge that nurses, who are usually the first line of help in any hospital setting, are bearing the worst brunt of the Covid epidemic amongst healthcare workers. More than 33% of all healthcare workers that have been hospitalized with Covid-19 between March and May turned out to be in nursing-related positions, a […]

The issue of diversity in economic discourse has occupied a prominent place over the past few years. The AEA has had long running initiatives to broaden the diversity of individuals in the economics professions, along gender, racial and ethnic lines, but it’s fair to say they have become much more visible as the debate has […]

Authored by Wendy McElroy via The Mises Institute, On September 22, President Trump signed the Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The order speaks of “race or sex stereotyping,” which is defined as the act of “ascribing character traits, values, moral and ethical codes, privileges, status, or beliefs to a race or sex, […]

An asteroid measuring 300 meters across is gaining speed as it tacks towards Earth – and could be on a collision path with the planet by 2068, experts at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy revealed on Tuesday.  Astronomers at UH warned, the asteroid, named 99942 Apophis, or has been dubbed by some as the “God of […]

By John Hirschauer, via Real Clear Education, A recent survey of nearly 20,000 undergraduates at 55 major American colleges and universities suggests that students at the University of Chicago enjoy the most robust free-speech rights – and not just on paper, but in practice. The 2020 College Free Speech Rankings is a joint venture of […]

by Calculated Risk on 10/28/2020 09:03:00 PM

Submitted by NewsSquawk ECB policy announcement due Thursday 29th October; rate decision at 1245GMT/0745CDT, press conference 1330GMT/0830CDT The upcoming meeting takes place against a backdrop of a resurgence in COVID-19 which has led to the reimposition of various lockdown measures in the EZ Policymakers are likely to wait until December to unveil any further easing […]

Desmond Meade (right) and Angel Sanchez (left) speak at voting rights event after Florida voters gave people with felony convictions back their right to vote, with Amendment 4. Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Angel Sanchez was 17 years old and in prison when he learned that Florida banned anyone with a felony […]

by Calculated Risk on 10/28/2020 06:58:00 PM