

In June, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense announced that the value of equipment transferred to Ukraine, originally valued at $6 billion, was “corrected” to $3 billion. The prior month, the Pentagon had made a similar correction. Initially, the...
Pentagon Corrects “Accounting Error.” As Always, the First Casualty of War is the Truth

Climate change tools
This article was originally published April, 2023 in The Astronomy Cafe. Over the years I have collected a number of online tools that help me keep climate change in perspective. Here are some of my favorites! Flooding risk areas. Dark blue and black are extreme risk...
Climate change tools

Are GOP Presidential Contenders Prepared to Take On the Fed?
As the GOP’s presidential hopefuls formulate their national economic agendas, one question looms large: What are they going to do about the Federal Reserve? America’s central bank has gone off the rails. Its monetary mischief in the wake of COVID-19 caused the...
Are GOP Presidential Contenders Prepared to Take On the Fed?

How the WFH movement is changing office values
US office capital value will be 17% below 2021 values by 2030. Source: Oxford Economics/MSCI Having just passed the three-year anniversary of the Covid lockdowns, it is a good moment to take stock of the impact of the pandemic on US office space. Overall, the shift to...
How the WFH movement is changing office values

The Debt Deal
O FRABJOUS DAY! CALLOOH, CALLAY! The debt limit deal takes an enormous load off my mind; weeks of worrying about what we’d do when the economy crashed, and we lose everything and live on the street near a soup kitchen. But now apparently the ship will not sink, and as...
The Debt Deal