Assorted links

1. Fifteen strange beaches.

2. Do measures of policy uncertainty have predictive value?

3. Ricardo Reis endorses a version of Austro-Portuguese business cycle theory (pdf).

4. Good and bad pragmatism, by Scott Sumner.

5. 1946 Alcatraz menu.  I liked the second comment too.

6. New book on the Singapore health care system.

7. The cash transfers idea is picking up steam.