Tuesday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen June 27, 2023 at 11:51 am

1. Noise pollution and killer whales.

2. “We estimate an MPC [marginal propensity to consume] out of unrealized crypto gains that is more than double the MPC out of unrealized equity gains but smaller than the MPC from exogenous cash flow shocks.”

3. Why so little recent progress on improved Covid vaccines? (NYT)

4. How well does he understand decentralized or for that matter centralized systems?: ““I’m a socialist,” Hinton added. “I think that private ownership of the media, and of the ‘means of computation’, is not good.” Nice!

5. Claims by Marco Rubio.

6. The deputy mayor Midsummer’s Eve culture that is Helsinki.