Massive Dark Hole Opens In The Sun – We Are In A Solar MINIMUM
An enormous dark hole has opened up in the surface of the sun, emitting streams of unusually fast radiation, known as solar wind, right at Earth. The size of the temporary gap is wider than 60 Earths and extraordinary at this stage of the solar cycle. This phenomenon, known as a coronal hole, took shape […]
2:00PM Water Cooler Christmas Day 2023
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I had heavily hinted that I would take the day off, but then I remembered that I ran this in 2020 and 2021 (oddly, not in 2022) so here we are for 2023: Merry Christmas, and let me now express the wish that 2024 will be boring and uneventful! […]
Inflation has created a dark cloud over how everyday Americans view the economy
Grocery items are offered for sale at a supermarket on August 09, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images When Kyle Connolly looks back at 2023, she sees it as a year defined by changes and challenges. The newly single parent reentered the workforce, only to be laid off from her job at […]
Christmas Calculations and Yuletide Yields
My father and I went to buy a Christmas tree earlier in the week. Fortunately, it wasn’t anything like the Griswold’s epic journey to procure a tree: There wasn’t any singing, no driving under 18-wheelers, and we didn’t need a saw. Aside from the holiday memory, the trip reinforced important lessons about economic calculation, capital […]
