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Even thought the Wall Street Journal has “oh so reasonable” quotes from McKinsey spokescritters as to how “The Firm” is adapting to AI, the headline suggests otherwise: AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ The article has McKinsey officials make the key concession, that AI can replace a fair bit of

The US attempt to bring global ports under Western control in order to squeeze Beijing looks dead in the water. Despite Trump’s bluster, China quietly shut the scheme down. We’ll detail how they did so, but first the relevant background. Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings in March announced that it was selling all its overseas

Conor here: As the UK water companies jack up prices while also turning the country’s river and seas into sewage dumps, they are also rewarding their executives with evermore pay and bonuses. The following piece argues the only fix is nationalization, and an investigation published yesterday added more weight to this argument. The Guardian found

Your humble blogger has found M. K. Bhadrakumar to be a bit of a mixed bag as a geopolitical commentator. On the one hand, he’s written many extremely insightful columns at his website, Indian Punchline. But from time to time, he’s had some pieces that were eyebrow-raising, such as ones where he speculated on Russian

Your humble blogger has found M. K. Bhadrakumar to be a bit of a mixed bag as a geopolitical commentator. On the one hand, he’s written many extremely insightful columns at his website, Indian Punchline. But from time to time, he’s had some pieces that were eyebrow-raising, such as ones where he speculated on Russian

Maybe, maybe not. With the employment release of Friday, here’re the pictures, first of NBER’s BCDC key indicators, and second of alternative indicators (recalling all the most recent data will be revised): Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll from CES (bold blue), implied NFP Bloomberg consensus as of 7/1 (blue +), civilian employment with smoothed population controls

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Greetings gentle readers, welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today we have a classic of Russian cinema: The Cranes are Flying. Reviews: Letterboxd says: I hate this movie. It’s going directly into my top 100. I hate that it makes my heart hurt so much and how the camera work makes me