Yves here. This article discusses the high probability of seeing the resource curse reappear in the form of suboptimal exploitation…
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As a holiday meditation, consider that many of the things that fill people with understandable fear for our national future—polarization,…
Yves here. This is not a pretty sight, to say the least. This is not Steve Bannon speaking. The head…
The second round of the French elections, to be held on July 7, offers interesting lessons about democracy. In each…
Guyana bursts into the IMF’s top 10 countries by GDP per capita (PPP) in 2024. Most are tax havens or…
The Bloomberg consensus is 4%. This implies a trigger close to the Sahm rule (in real time): Figure 1: Real-time…
By Lambert Strether de Corrente Bird song of the day Common Loon, Redstone Lake, Ontario, Canada. “A few calls and…
The historian AJP Taylor wrote this the 1923 general election It was “the only election in British history which was…
1. Ken Opalo on the Kenya protests. 2. Cultural policy in French elections. 3. A Program of Abundance for California,…