…War–era law, to essentially commandeer a more permissive iteration of the AI, or It could label Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” meaning that anyone doing business with the U.S. military would…

…government to its knees and overthrowing it. Then what? Trump’s Oil Blockade of Cuba Is Economic Violence, CEPR Near the peak of US military escalation in the Vietnam war, Martin…

…stress tests. This was done under the guise of being called, (cough-cough, clearing my throat) community banks or The Community (Bank) Hustle as the Intercept would label it. You would expect this…

…a slide projector and screen and (c) a way to label and store all the images. Online music streaming: NO. I grew up with vinyl and tapes (reel-to-reel, cassettes and…

US Household wealth regains pre-recession peak! crows this story. Steve Roth‘s chart to 2010 from Asynptosis demonstrates the drop in net worth for most of us. pgl at Econospeak adds…

…in Italy. Italy is the only periphery economy (where data is made available) where the corporate borrowing costs are higher since the peak of corporate lending rates in the Euro…

…hovering near its peak rate, 14.6% in May vs. 14.8% peak (in the chart below, the red line maps the pre-revised unemployment rates). Consumer confidence is very low, which implies…

…only down slightly from its January peak of 14.5%. Employment growth in the sector almost reached its 1980 peak growth rate of 16.5 %. In March, oil & gas extraction…

…look at employment in Construction, it peaks (as one might expect) in April of 2006. (Employment in Manufacturing in the United States peaked in June of 1979.) If we normalize…

…roughly .25% since the local peak in August 2011. But a closer look across mortgage markets shows a worrying trend for key periphery economies. The pass-through from ECB rate setting…