oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this???
In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now
DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING
The interception of a russian Shahed drone with small arms by the crew-member of a Ukrainian #Yak-52 trainer plane. Snoopy type fighting is effective if done right
has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...
New piece! The End of Natural Population Growth Won’t End Canada's Housing Shortage
Deaths may soon outnumber births, but Canada is still on track to add millions of residents and millions more homes will be needed.
Read here: www.missingmiddleini...
"Strip away the Latin and the instrument is a forward sale of a standing commodity, the direct ancestor of the contract a desk would write today to go long or short a harvest a season before the harvest exists."
As we confront Hormuz and El Niño, my essay on the origins of averages and derivatives:
Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️
Sky Marchini
Long before futures or reinsurance, antiquity had its ways of pricing the weather, and one of them still hides in a word every analyst uses.
open.substack.com
NEW Economist/YouGov Jun 5-8: The economy
Only 29% of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of how Donald Trump is handling the economy, while a record-high 63% disapprove
That's a net approval of -34 for Trump on the economy, his lowest in either term
yougov.com/en-us/articl...
Ending low-interest loans to multimillionaires is small, but probably one of the best pure policy victories from Eby.
It annoys me that the journalists lets all the quotes in this piece talk about "low-income" seniors without ever mentioning assets.
The Federal Reserve voted unanimously to leave interest rates unchanged at Kevin Warsh's first meeting at the helm. Policymakers now expect to RAISE rates at least once this year.
Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
#EconSky
The Federal Open Market Committee approved the following statement for release by a 12 – 0 vote: The Committee decided to maintain the target range for
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Sven-Erik Volberg
The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...