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Modi Is $20 Trillion Short on His Grand Plan for India’s Economy
To reach developed status by 2047, the country would need a sixfold increase in GDP.
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Weaker Yen Keeps Japanese Tourists at Home While Visitors Throng
Once renowned as avid overseas tourists, the Japanese are staying closer to home these days.
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Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week
Gold ambitions are top of mind as the world’s biggest precious-metals producers wrap up the latest earnings season. North America’s newest oil pipeline project is slated to start commercial production, redrawing the flow of crude around the world. And cocoa’s price swings have been the most extreme since 1977.
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Iran-Israel Strife Throws Out a Lifeline to Shippers
War-risk premiums are putting a floor under global shipping rates as the world awaits good news on trade.
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FIRE’s Response to Police Dispersing Pro-Palestinian Protesters at UT Austin
As I’ve noted before, public universities have considerable authority to impose content-neutral rules on demonstrations, for instance prohibiting overnight campouts, restricting sound amplification, and so on. But of course the First Amendment requires such rules to be content-neutral (or, in “limited public forums” on campuses, at least viewpoint-neutral). And even content-neutral restrictions in outdoor quads, […]
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US Debt-Sale Plan Seen Benefiting From Fed That ‘Stops Hurting’
The US Treasury is set to keep its sales of long-term debt steady in a new plan this week, with the government expected to get relief soon from the Federal Reserve’s rapid run-down in its securities holdings.
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Fading Bets of Early RBA Cuts Frustrate Albanese Reelection Plan
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces a bumpy road to reelection with sticky inflation pushing back the timetable for interest-rate relief, raising the prospect of further financial stress for households about a year from the next ballot.
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Google Chrome’s new post-quantum cryptography may break TLS connections
Some Google Chrome users report having issues connecting to websites, servers, and firewalls after Chrome 124 was released last week with the new quantum-resistant X25519Kyber768 encapsulation mechanism enabled by default.
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Is the Worst Yet to Come?
By Steve Huntley April 28, 2024 This and that. Random thoughts and observations about current events. Trigger alert! What follows might harm the psyche of the woke. Perhaps those sensitive souls should retreat to a safe space, which I suspect will be Judenfrei. Peaceful protest is a hallowed right and tradition in America. These days, […]
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Who’s on Trial, a Former President or a Mob Boss?
It’s downright disturbing to contemplate the similarities between the Donald’s hush money trial and that of an organized crime don.
