Cooler than expected inflation for February.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for February rose by 0.2 percent (expectations of 0.3 percent and 0.5 percent last month), while the core CPI (excluding the volatile food and energy components) also climbed by 0.2 percent for the…

A number of readers responded to our March 24, 2022, commentary, “Zika, Polio, Covid!” (https://www.cumber.com/market-commentary/zika-polio-covid). We appreciate readers’ thoughtful responses and thank all who chose to reply. We’ve included selected notes below:

We thank readers for their emails about monkeypox. We have, of course, been keeping an eye on its spread, its characteristics, and its potential for causing disruption. Monkeypox will not be a Covid-style pandemic, if it becomes a pandemic. For starters, Covid spreads by respiratory transmission…

We thank readers for their many comments about our Cuba series. The three prior parts and today's addition are available here:   

fishing buddy and longtime friend, Danny Blanchflower, is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth. His collaborator Alex Bryson is Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Social Research Institute, University College, London. Together these two economists have been looking at the predictive power…

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