Thursday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen August 28, 2025 at 12:36 pm

1. “Marrying a cousin leads to more than a two-year reduction in age-five life expectancy, compounding the documented early-life effects.”

2. The value of Medicaid.

3. More on the Intel deal.

4. Republican legislators are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education.

5. Claims about whether moving has declined. And an Edge City fellowship in Patagonia.

6. Mantic: new company for AI-based prediction.

7. Woodcoin: an attempt at a physical cryptocurrency?