Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Is this possible?: “Criminals may have stolen as much as half of the unemployment benefits the U.S. has been pumping out over the past year, some experts say.”

2. When should ngdp be unstable?

3. Is Nero underrated? (New Yorker)

4. Sixty times the speed of sound? (USS Princeton radar team and pilot source, also a good presentation of the multiple data sources which are neglected by West and PewdiePie.) And here is the common briefing message given to the ex-presidents.

5. Where are the Chinese elephants going and why?

6. Darrell Duffie argues for CBDC.

7. Kristof on the new Claudia Goldin book (NYT).