Notes in the Margin

Last week, the BOJ raised the benchmark rate to 1.25%. Price inflation and the weak yen continue to dog the central bank. 

Joseph Stiglitz, et al. Most "mainstream" economists are basically regime technocrats who pose as scholars of economics.  

"“It will help ensure that Argentina’s tax authorities are equipped with the information they need on transactions in crypto-assets..."

American intelligence officers are using chatbots to decide who the US should bomb next. 

"Survey response rates for the monthly Jobs Report have declined steadily over the past decade, creating a direct risk to the quality of data that guides trillion-dollar policy decisions." 

"More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly..." 

“The Mission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the US committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack resulting in loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects.”

"‘The higher that yields go — for at least new money — it becomes more enticing to think about putting money into bonds,’ one strategist notes..."

Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will get no crude oil next month after the kingdom’s key Red Sear pipeline was attacked.

Democracy means whatever the ruling elite says it means. In this case, being "pro-democracy" means never having elections.