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Timothy Taylor, at Conversable Economisthad a post on August 13 titled “What Economic Ideas are True and Nontrivial?” He starts with a famous story that Paul Samuelson told and I’ll quote it here: [O]ur subject puts its best foot forward when it speaks out on international trade. This was brought home to me years ago when I was in the Society of Fellows at Harvard along with the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam. Ulam, who was to become an originator of the Monte Carlo method and co-discoverer of the hydrogen bomb, was already at a tender age a world famous topologist. And…
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A video provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shows flooding in Juneau after a glacial outburst in Alaska on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025.JUNEAU, Alaska – The all clear has been given and residents have been allowed to return to their homes in Alaska’s capital of Juneau after a glacial lake outburst sent debris-filled water rushing down the Mendenhall River on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHERAccording to the National Weather Service office in Juneau, the Mendenhall River at Auke Bay crested at a record 16.65 feet at 7:15 a.m. local time on Wednesday.That…
President Donald Trump’s administration wants to overhaul the nation’s visa program for highly skilled foreign workers. If the administration does what one official described, it would change H-1B visa rules to favor employers that pay higher wages. That could effectively transform the visa into what one expert called “a luxury work permit” and disadvantage early-career workers with smaller salaries, including teachers. It could also upend the current visa program’s lottery system used to distribute visas to eligible foreign workers. “This shift may prevent many employers, including small and midsize businesses, from hiring the talent they need in shortage occupations, ultimately…
SP Global’s monthly GDP series is up (with prediction of flat GDP in Q3): Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll from CES (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (orange), industrial production (red), Bloomberg implied consensus as of 8/13 (red square), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold light green), manufacturing and trade sales in Ch.2017$ (black), consumption in Ch.2017$ (light blue), and monthly GDP in Ch.2017$ (pink), GDP (blue bars), all log normalized to 2021M11=0. Source: BLS via FRED, Federal Reserve, BEA 2025Q2 advance release, S&P Global Market Insights (nee Macroeconomic Advisers, IHS Markit) (8/1/2025 release),…
Who will win? ← → 0 Votes Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.00Expected goals (xG)0.00Passing515 (90%)Accurate passes137 (70%) Turn off spoiler to view match events Coach Luis Enrique Martínez García 1 G Guglielmo Vicar 7.0 24 D Djed Spence 6.5 37 D Micky van de Ven 39′ 7.0 17 D Cristian Romero (C) 48′ 7.9 4 D Kevin Danso 62′ Delay of game 6.7 23 D Pedro Porro 48′ 6.7 30 M Rodrigo Bentancur 7.0 29 M Pope Matar Sarr 7.0 6 M João Palhinha 7.2 9 F…
Tom Dundon is expected to keep the Trail Blazers in Portland after purchasing the team for just over $4 million on Wednesday, sources told ESPN. Dundon and his group plan to discuss a public-private partnership for an arena with both the city of Portland and state of Oregon, according to sources. In 2024, the Blazers sold their home arena and the land under the arena to the city of Portland. A public-private partnership was launched to renovate both the arena and the area surrounding the arena. Other members of Dundon’s group include Marc Zahr (copresident of Blue Owl Capital) and…
FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross offers expect analysis of Tropical Storm Erin as the organizing and strengthening system continues to spin across the Atlantic and is expected to become a major hurricane.Updated at 10 a.m. ET on Aug. 13, 2025.Tropical Storm Erin is still struggling to strengthen, but it has a well-developed circulation. Dry and dusty air surrounds the system, and the ocean below is cool. However, conditions are forecast to be much more conducive to strengthening ahead.The National Hurricane Center is forecasting Erin to slowly strengthen, reaching hurricane strength late tomorrow or early Friday. Though the exact timing…
When U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for high-stakes talks, Trump will be coming face-to-face with a shrewd leader who has dealt with his fair share of U.S. presidents. In Anchorage, the two presidents are set to discuss the future of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine—which began nearly three and a half years ago—without Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the negotiating table. But in the days ahead of the talks, Trump has downplayed expectations for any breakthrough, telling reporters last Friday that he planned to “see what [Putin] has in mind.” When…