03/19/2024

News

Labor Department’s seasonal job rejiggering doesn’t compute

The employment report for August was good — not great — but there were some strange numbers that President Trump should have someone keep an eye on. The puzzling figures have to do with seasonal adjustments — those yawn-inducing details that go into every government economic report. Bottom line: The Labor Department made major changes […]

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Opinion: How the war on climate change slams the world’s poor

Trying to help 24 million people by imperiling 78 million people’s lives is a very poor policy. We’ve heard similar stories before: In a few short decades, climate policy has often created more damage than the benefits it attempts to deliver. Ten years ago, a biofuels craze swept rich countries with the full-throated support of […]

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Don’t put all your anti-climate-change eggs in the electric-car basket

Carbon Engineering is a company co-founded by Harvard physicist David Keith and funded, among others, by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Since 2015, the firm has been running a CO2 extraction plant in Canada, testing out a technology that was until recently rejected as too costly. Keith and his collaborators, who wrote the paper, have used […]

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Blue, green — and brown

Go West, young man. That’s our advice for Andrew Cuomo. By West, we mean California, where he would do well to ask his fellow Democratic governor — Jerry Brown — why good liberals should support fracking. In a budget-focused press conference this week, Brown put it this way:

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