Thursday assorted links

1. Interview with Rebecca Goldstein.

2. Bitcoin as a Chinese capital outflow proxy.

3. “Just haunting” (photo, Pakistan).

4. How has manufacturing productivity been doing?  How long does it take to run across the country? (NYT)

5. The footprint of Obamacare is smaller than both supporters and critics had expected.  That the one part of the system that has broke is the new part is worth a ponder, however.  And here is Sarah Kliff with a not entirely different perspective.

6. Profile of Evan McMullin.  And why are there now fewer white Americans in the NBA?