by Calculated Risk on 8/13/2025 01:19:00 PM Here is a look at the change in teen employment over time.The graph below shows the employment-population ratio for teens (16 to 19 years old) since 1948.The graph is Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA), to…
August 13, 2025 | Asset Listings We’re thrilled to announce that USELESS is available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading USELESS trading is live as of August 13, 2025. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding,…
Here is YouTube, here is Spotify. Yonatan is a very smart venture capitalist. About 34 minutes, recommended!
Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at why it is hard to avoid the rate race. Quote of the Day "We are fallible, and inconstant, and biased.…
Yves here. Given the imminent Trump-Putin summit, Russia is very much in the focus, as is the new US provocation in its Caucasus back yard via Trump’s loudly-announced plan for a 99 year lease on the Zangezur Corridor, which borders Iran.…
by Calculated Risk on 8/13/2025 09:50:00 AM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in JulyA brief excerpt: Tracking local data gives an early look at what happened the previous month and also reveals…
August 13, 2025 | Asset Listings We’re thrilled to announce that XYO is available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading XYO trading is live as of August 13, 2025. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding,…
During the pandemic, many restrictions on telemedicine were lifted, making it far easier for physicians to treat patients across state lines. That window has largely closed. Today, unless a doctor is separately licensed in a patient’s state—or the states have a…
This type of post only surfaces during a bull market, when greed tug at us the hardest, making satisfaction elusive. Ever since making my first public equity investment in 1996, I’ve been hooked, wrestling with the constant mental tug-of-war over how…
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We Don’t Have to Anthropomorphize Animals to Care About Them The Revelator Jobs and Hints of Recession Dollars & Sense CPI report: Core inflation rises by most in six months, stoking tariff-driven price concerns Yahoo! Finance Can I Eat Instant Noodles…
It’s been painful to observe the wretched state of reporting in the runup to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska this Friday. Admittedly, the Trump side gaslighted the press with talk of territory swaps, an idea which if it was voiced in…
The 7 August 2025 issue of Nature included an interesting article on The Science Fiction Science Method (paywall) by Iyad Rahwan, Azim Shariff, and Jean-François Bonnefon. The scientific method is difficult enough to understand these days, especially regarding previously important but…
new video loaded: What to Know About Trump’s Deal With A.I. ChipmakersBy Tripp Mickle, Karen Hanley, Jon Hazell and David Jouppi•August 13, 2025Nvidia and AMD will give the Trump administration a cut of chip sales to China in a deal that…
Member-only storyJonny Fry6 min read·1 day ago--Written by James Tylee Founder of Cyber.FMIn a move of historic consequence for digital finance, Washington has ended the era of regulatory ambiguity, embracing a strategy that positions America to dominate the next chapter of…
Member-only storyJamen Djedet4 min read·2 days ago--Press enter or click to view image in full sizeImage, courtesy of GrokBitcoin’s meteoric rise to $122,000 has sparked euphoria across the crypto markets. Yet, beneath this milestone lies a troubling reality: the rally may…
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeMember-only storyCRYPTO INVESTINGThe Top 5 Crypto Launchpads You Need to KnowDominalt11 min read·2 days ago--The most efficient way to make money in crypto is to get in early. And the best way…
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeMember-only storyCRYPTO INVESTINGFour altcoin projects ready to shake up the market.Dominalt9 min read·22 hours ago--Earlier today, we saw once again Bitcoin rally pretty close to its previous all-time high, and things are…
Kelly7 min read·16 hours ago--Image credit: Council of the European UnionSay “wallet” in Brussels and people think fintech. Say “DAO” and they think cult. Say “smart contract” and they think loophole.By the time the conversation starts, you’re already on the defensive.I’ve…
Member-only storyPVMihalache3 min read·5 hours ago--Hana Network is an emerging project in the SocialFi and AI agent space, focused on building a decentralized attention layer for the internet. I prepared a smooth breakdown for crypto bros!Hana Network is building an onchain…
A key reason for the global financial cycle, as outlined by Hélène Rey, is that many firms and financial institutions in developing countries borrow heavily in U.S. dollars while their revenues, assets, and cash flows are denominated in local currency. When…
Yves here. Due to having closely chronicled the 2007-2008 crisis, and then learning even more afterward by continuing to dig into what happened, yours truly has a strong point of view about what happened. In his post below, Richard Murphy correctly…
By Dr. Rob Anderson, Guest Writer As an anesthesiologist and clinical leader, I have your typical mix of responsibilities, including clinical loan, scheduling, and hospital committee work. I am also the lead recruiter of our group, which has given me a…
The author is Philip K. Howard and the subtitle is How to Revive the Spirit of America. The book is short, to the point, in the “abundance + state capacity” genre. Excerpt, noting I will not double indent: “Three major changes…
A paper (Nov. 2024) (first version Oct. 2024): Downloadable data used in the paper here [xlsx]. This paper is a rebuttal to this article (paper on different server, in case article disappears from original site). Key graph from their paper: .…
We find that decreases in Michelin stars improve consumer review ratings…The analysis of review content further shows that a loss in Michelin stars leads consumers to become less focused on value and become less demanding regarding service. Here is the paper. …
1. Bells ringing before Vespers. 2. Sensible comments on AI. 3. At least thirty-three crypto kidnappings this year? 4. University presidents arguing with each other. 5. Some reasons why DC has been getting worse, of course add Work from Home (which…
From CNN today: “Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data,” he told Fox Business. “Major decision-makers from Wall Street to D.C. rely on these…
by Calculated Risk on 8/12/2025 02:13:00 PM The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI.According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the median Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in July. The 16% trimmed-mean Consumer Price Index increased…
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The F-35 fighter jet is the most expensive weapons program in U.S. history, but one of its biggest failures isn’t in the air — it’s on the ground. The Pentagon’s Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), conceived as an ambitious plan to…
From the CPI release today: Figure 1: CPI all urban (bold blue), CPI – household furnishings and operations (tan), CPI – final demand, consumer durables (green), all in logs 2025M01=0. Source: BLS via FRED, author’s calculations. While m/m CPI headline growth…
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August 12, 2025 | News Our MiCA license is fully activated, unlocking regulated access to crypto services throughout the European Economic Area Kraken is now live in all 30 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) under our Markets in Crypto-Assets…
by Calculated Risk on 8/12/2025 12:03:00 PM The BLS reported earlier today: The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 2.5 percent over the last 12 months to an index level of 316.349 (1982-84=100). For the…
Done with Liberty Fund, I very much enjoyed chatting with him. Here is the link. Here is their episode summary: Tyler Cowen joins Mitch Daniels to explore AI’s promise, economic threats from debt and regulation, and the need for bold, intelligent…
Yves here. The horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza become more intense and wide-ranging as the pace of its extermination accelerates. Israel is also stepping up its ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. It is attacking Southern Lebanon as the Lebanese…
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by Calculated Risk on 8/12/2025 08:51:00 AM Here are a few measures of inflation:The first graph is the one Fed Chair Powell had mentioned two years ago as something to watch. Click on graph for larger image.This graph shows the YoY price…
by Calculated Risk on 8/12/2025 08:30:00 AM From the BLS: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in July, after rising 0.3 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics…
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Jellyfish force French reactor shutdowns, strain grid Euractiv So bad they’re good – why do we love terrible films? BBC (Robin K) Learning Greek – A Practical Guide Spengler (Micael T) #COVID-19/Pandemics Measles Cases by State in 2025 Visual Capitalist The…
The Trump administration’s latest escalatory threat comes just days after Rolling Stone reported on a secret drug trafficking cartel operating out of Fort Bragg. Picture this scenario: Mexico’s government is grappling with an institutional crisis. Lawlessness is on the rise as…
Yves here. This VoxEU column, originally titled Recent patterns in global risk behaviour in financial markets, seeks to measure a “safe-haven factor” for the dollar and ascertain how it has operated over time and since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff shock and…
A common theme in the vast literature on climate change is the estimation of models using historical data to make predictions many decades into the future. Although there is a large and growing number of these types of studies, researchers rarely…
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In an important bit of reporting, THE CITY documents how New York City now outstrips the entire nation in its rate of ICE arrests in city courthouses. Mind you, that means the people that ICE is nabbing were seeking to obey…
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