Economy

Has silver become a Giffen good, the famous textbook anomaly where higher prices supposedly lead to higher demand? In this...

QUESTION: Marty, you said this is a perfect storm behind the metals between sovereign debt and war. I believe you...

Just read this beautiful story 😭❤ I live in a 12-unit apartment building. For two years, I didn't know a...

Yves here. John Ruehl describes below how president Claudia Sheinbaum is trying to manage domestic opinion as Trump threatens military...

Yves here. The smart city vogue has been under way for a while. Some of this reflects a belief that...

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 435.64 points or 0.81% to...

Part the First: Predatory or Not?  Over the past six years the biomedical literature has accumulated 494,547 scientific “publications” with...

Brazil is often described as a constitutional democracy with a market economy: You can buy a home, start a business,...

Professor Clyde Wilson’s observation that “history is not a mathematical calculation or scientific experiment but a vast drama of which...

Yves here. Perhaps you feel the same way I do about tech billionaires’ fevered dreams that too often look like...