Tuesday assorted links

1. Mapping the power elite in Greenland.

2. Did “tanking” work for the 76ers?

3. Scott Sumner on the demise of the penny.

4. Claims from Nievas and Piketty: “A 20% increase in commodities prices from 1970 to 2025 period – very moderate compared to the very low market exchange rates of many global South countries – could turn Sub-Saharan Africa into a larger creditor than East Asia by 2025.”  Here are some comments.

5. Extremely life-like dolls in the culture that is Brazil (NYT).  Ross Douthat, telephone!

6. Justin Sandefur estimates the foreign lives costs of proposed budgetary changes to foreign aid.  Here is a redux of my 2023 column on PEPFAR.