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The RAND Corporation, one of the more influential US think tanks that help craft US foreign policy, is out with a new paper arguing that it’s time the US use a divide and rule strategy with Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic. Years of sanctions, threats, and general belligerence from Washington helped organize the wedding of China and Russia’s complementary economies, and that’s increasingly evident in the Arctic where the two are cooperating on development, trade routes, and oil and gas projects. Here’s RAND now sounding the alarm: What might be done to limit China-Russia cooperation in this geopolitically important…

A decent portion of the members of the actual or wannabe capitalist classes have realized they are on the losing end of class warfare and are identifying more and more with the great unwashed public. The most obvious sign is the extent to which alleged Brian Thompson killer Luigi Mangione is getting support on social media, despite efforts by platform-minders to tamp that down. Another instance is the overwhelming rejection by presumed generally business-friendly Wall Street Journal readers of an article last week, A New Risk for Employers: Losing Millions of Migrants With Temporary Work Permits Keep in mind that…

ProPublica is a nonprofit news company that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive the biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For years, the home oxygen industry has failed in many ways the more than 1 million Americans who suffer from breathing difficulties. As ProPublica has revealed, Lincare, the nation’s largest respiratory distributor, has a decades-long history of ripping off Medicare and seniors. Philips Respironics hid serious problems with its sleep apnea device, leading to devastating consequences, including reports of deaths. Other major respiratory companies have paid millions of dollars in fraud settlements. But as this Congress draws…

Supporters of the policy outnumber detractors by nearly 3 to 1, according to new data from the Inman Intel Index survey. According to Intel, agents at large brokerage firms were found to be more tolerant of criticism. This report is available exclusively to subscribers of Inman Intel, Inman’s data and research division, providing deep insight and market intelligence into the residential real estate and proptech businesses. Subscribe now. Compass CEO Robert Refkin is trying to convince the industry to plan a path forward without clear cooperation, which helped make the industry’s largest trade group a target of the Justice Department.…

Whether you’re refining your business model, mastering new technology, or finding a strategy to take advantage of the next market boom, Inman Connect New York prepares you to take a bold step. The next chapter is about to begin. Please join us. Join us and thousands of other real estate leaders from January 22-24, 2025. In recent years, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has been plagued by a series of missteps and scandals that have left members questioning the organization’s leadership and integrity. From resolving disastrous lawsuits and costly settlement agreements to enforcing poorly thought-out policies and rules, the…

Yves here. This article shows that the robustness, or lack thereof, of the elderly is starting to get official attention. The authors constructed a frailty index, using data from the Health and Retirement Study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. which frustratingly the authors do not indicate precisely what the information consists of: is it all objective measures or does it include self-reporting? Has there been an attempt to validate any self-assessments?. Their description: Frailty indices aggregate information across a range of indicators (e.g. medical conditions, ability to perform certain activities) and are scored from 0 (low) to 1…

Whether you’re refining your business model, mastering new technology, or finding a strategy to take advantage of the next market boom, Inman Connect New York prepares you to take a bold step. The next chapter is about to begin. Please join us. Join us and thousands of other real estate leaders from January 22-24, 2025. The settlement of the lawsuit filed by the National Association of Realtors has been completed, and the future is likely to be smooth sailing. Let’s think again. In addition to the Justice Department’s intervention, an appeal has also been filed, and we are far from…

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Tyler Cowen recently asked o1 Pro the following question. What is the biggest problem with economist Scott Sumner’s idea that the Fed subsidize the NGDP futures market? Based on theoretical macroeconomics, agency problems, finance theory, etc. Please answer. Below is part of the response. One of the most serious challenges to the proposal to subsidize the NGDP (nominal gross domestic product) futures market to the Federal Reserve is its inherent vulnerability to market manipulation and perverse incentives. Although this idea of ​​using the NGDP futures market as a direct feedback loop to monetary policy is theoretically elegant, it…

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