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U.S. Financial system Transitions to Slower Progress as Inflation Weighs on Customers WSJ. The URL reveals how the editors rewrote the headline: us-employers-labor-costs-inflation-q2-2022. On “transitions,” commentary:
However, these dwelling paycheck to paycheck, by definition, are destroyed by dropping their paycheck. They’ll undergo probably the most from the Fed’s “unconditional” concentrate on inflation, recession or not. (Be aware, the Fed has two obligations, not one as he says.) Those on the backside go first. pic.twitter.com/Av1LrJ9GTu
— Claudia Sahm (@Claudia_Sahm) July 29, 2022
GDP Report Could Have Confirmed a Decline, however It’s Not a Recession MorningStar
Indicators of Softening Barry Ritholtz, The Massive Image.
The Final Days of Sound Finance Phenomenal World
Local weather
Drought Threatens Main Rivers within the U.S. and Europe Maritime Govt and Rhine degree in Germany falls once more, vessels solely part-loaded Hellenic Delivery Information
China?
A Taiwanese contrarian on China’s rhetoric, thread:
A brief thread on China’s #rhetoric on @SpeakerPelosi‘s rumored plan to go to Taiwan. Thus far Beijing’s wording has been far beneath the edge of the sorts of phrases & phrases that China traditionally used for signaling impending struggle/brinkmanship. /1
— Wen-Ti Sung (@wentisung) July 27, 2022
Any person who is aware of Mandarin may need a go.
Debate deepens over Wuhan moist market’s position in kickstarting the pandemic Nationwide Geographic. Not a photo-essay, a overview.
Would a nuclear-armed Taiwan deter China? Australian Strategic Coverage Institute. From 2020, a cheerful thought that’s nonetheless germane!
The Koreas
Minimal Wage and How South Korea Averted Japanization The Blue Roof
#COVID19
Oz:
COVID-19: Time to place folks forward of politics Perception. Australian Medical Affiliation. Austrialian visits New York: “[T[t was striking how much more sophisticated their response was than ours” [bangs head on desk].
Three myths about COVID-19 — and the most important problem that lies forward ABC Australia (KatieBird). “As an immunologist with 4 many years of analysis on antibodies underneath my belt, I at all times felt like I had a fairly good deal with on COVID-19. However after I caught the virus in Could, my hubris shortly was humility. COVID-19 left me with a critical coronary heart complication that happens in 2 per cent of contaminated folks, with the danger not diminished by immunisation or prior an infection.” The myths: “Fable #1: It’s only a chilly now so let’s get it over with”; “Fable #2: Being absolutely immunised stops an infection”; “Fable #3: Variant-specific vaccines are the reply.” Tons and plenty of charts. Effectively price a learn.
Hope, denial and Covid-19 The Saturday Paper
Queensland information greater than 18,000 COVID-19 circumstances after software program concern ABC Australia (Skippy).
* * * Why these two East Vancouver residents are distributing 1000’s of N95 masks without spending a dime CBC (MR). Being Canadian, the 2 residents characterize BC’s masks coverage as “neglectful.” What “neglectful” means is that Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC’s Provincial Well being Officer, is a malevolent droplet goon.Los Angeles County avoids new masks rule as COVID stabilizes LA Occasions. I feel I’ve seen this film earlier than….
Life expectancy in Japan sees first decline in 10 years amid pandemic Japan Occasions
Pandemic Evokes A New Crop Of Farmers Texas Observer. Being a peasant shouldn’t be within the least romantic.
Monkeypox
America Ought to Have Been Capable of Deal with Monkeypox Katherine Wu, The Atlantic. The deck: “Has COVID taught us nothing?”
Scientific options and novel displays of human monkeypox in a central London centre through the 2022 outbreak: descriptive case collection BMJ. n = 197. Conclusions: “These findings verify the continued unprecedented group transmission of monkeypox virus amongst homosexual, bisexual, and different males who’ve intercourse with males seen within the UK and plenty of different non-endemic nations.” The sampling comes from HCID (Excessive consequence infectious ailments) Centres in London. Grotesque pictures.
Syraqistan
Is open Saudi airspace actually a giant deal? – evaluation Jerusalem Submit
UK/EU
West London faces new houses ban as electrical energy grid hits capability FT. Due to information facilities. There’s gonna be a number of extra capability if the Metropolis of London dwindles to a regional participant.
Evaluation from Italy: A political disaster that no one wished Euro Information
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Zelenskyy visits port as Ukraine prepares to ship out grain AP
* * * The rouble is hovering and Putin is stronger than ever – our sanctions have backfired Simon Jenkins, Guardian (KLG).Really, the Russian Financial system Is Imploding Overseas Coverage
* * * Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash: ‘Putin will go additional. What’s going to Europe do then?’ FTEurope’s battle to remain united over struggle in Ukraine FT
Ukraine Received’t Save Democracy Overseas Affairs
London’s Excessive Courtroom guidelines in opposition to Venezuela’s Maduro in $1 billion gold battle Reuters
Biden Administration
Pelosi Go to Units Up No-Win State of affairs on Taiwan Overseas Coverage. Pelosi’s district is 31.9% Asian. After all, Asian shouldn’t be the identical as Chinese language. However, I might not be shocked to study that high-value Chinese language donors have robust views on Taiwan coverage, and had been tremendously involved to share them with Pelosi. So, 冰淇淋 (if I’ve translated aright).
The Knowledge of Stepping Again From the Edge Eunomia
Local weather specialists expertise an odd sensation after the Manchin price range deal: optimism NPR
Joe Biden and the Disappearing Elephant: Learn how to Make a Full-Sized Scandal Vanish in Entrance of an Viewers of Thousands and thousands Jonathan Turley. Pricey Hunter. How is he holding up?
2024
Trump Simply Informed Us His Grasp Plan David Frum, The Atlantic. The deck: “If he will get in subsequent time, he gained’t be dislodged by any means.” Appears legit. In any case, we haven’t even been in a position to “dislodge” Bush period
struggle legalflack David Frum.
The Bezzle
Tiger International-backed Missfresh stops paying salaries because it runs out of money FT. “An govt on the Tiger International-backed firm instructed staff on a unexpectedly organized name that an anticipated funding from a coal mining group had not materialised, and that it couldn’t pay overdue June salaries.” So the Shanghai PMCs whinging about not with the ability to get meals deliveries throughout lockdowns had been actually whinging about not with the ability to money of their tiny subsidies from the billionaires who funded loss-making operations. Just like here. And the “important staff” are left holding the bag. Similar to right here. It’s a humorous outdated world, as Maggie Thatcher as soon as remarked.
The Crypto Collapse Has Flooded the Market With Rolex and Patek Bloomberg
Web3 darling Helium has bragged about Lime being a shopper for years. Lime says it isn’t true. Mashable
The fitting to by no means be forgotten The Pull Request. I’ve but to come across anybody saying “It’s a must to use this Web3 app, it’s wonderful.” And I do attempt to preserve monitor, even the shills and crooks. Have any readers had a special expertise?
Elon Musk Tesla’s new $10000 house for sustainable dwelling. Queen Tales. Entertaining, as a result of AI that emitted it wants some work. That is the one hyperlink I can discover on Musk’s putative latest challenge. The remaining is on YouTube, Pinterest, and Reddit, so natural, completely. However, I’m submitting this adjoining to “The Bezzle,” not in it, as a result of right this moment is my day to be form.
Healthcare
Stringent measles, different vaccine guidelines for N.Y. schoolchildren upheld Reuters
Sports activities Desk
Hurry house early Indignity. On the Baltimore Orioles and the economics of baseball.
Zeitgeist Watch
“I’m simply going to the center of the inferno”: Interviewing Alex Moyer, Director of “Alex’s Warfare.” Matt Taibbi, TK Information. A must-read. Chris Arnade coated comparable territory in Dignity.
The Dirtbag Is Again The Atlantic
An actual-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment Guardian. However “Center Grove” is simply as vital.
Why Are There So Many Mass Shootings in the USA? Overseas Affairs
Imperial Collapse Watch
The way it began:
🎉Right this moment, Amtrak resumed service between Burlington VT and New York Metropolis. It’s been 69 years for the reason that final passenger practice left Union Station in 1953. pic.twitter.com/RRbOJS4Hw7
— Vermont Clear Cities (@VTCleanCities) July 29, 2022
The way it’s going:
Effectively, some man’s warehouse is crumbling onto the tracks north of Albany, so we’re getting off the practice and taking a bus from Saratoga to Albany as an alternative. https://t.co/QaDs0DaObO
— Andrea Suozzo (@asuozzo) July 29, 2022
Again within the day, I sometimes glanced on the newspaper of the Albanian Communist Social gathering (grey newsprint, very). I vividly bear in mind a triumphant story about Albania…. constructing a ship. “Renewing” a single-track line from New York to Burlington jogs my memory of that, someway.
Guillotine Watch
Boston Consulting in ‘nepotism’ row over work expertise for kids of high workers FT
Households With Younger Youngsters Led Exodus from Main Cities Throughout COVID Financial Innovation Group. EIG Atlantic Council-adjacent.
Class Warfare
On Economics And Democracy In The Lengthy Run
Newsom 2024!
California is exporting the poor and importing the wealthy pic.twitter.com/Z0T3xinkVt
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) July 29, 2022
Is Australian rhyming slang in a little bit of froth and bubble? Let’s take a Captain Prepare dinner (spoiler: the billy lids could maintain the important thing) The Dialog. Helpful to speak en claire. Eh?
Antidote du jour (via):
Anti-antidote:
Groundhog steals farmer’s crop and eats it in entrance of his safety digital camera.
— Wall Road Silver (@WallStreetSilv) July 28, 2022
I’m fairly mild-mannered about critters typically, however when the groundhogs threatened to invade — they didn’t — I used to be wanting into potato weapons.
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
