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1. Advice and economics from Emily Oster, installment #1.

2. The beginning of the end of the age of deposit insurance.

3. Further evidence for the causal nature of the marriage premium.

4. Should it be legal for patent holders to pay companies to delay their release of generic drugs?

5. Can digital music catch on in Africa?

1. Bryan Caplan defends the marriage premium.

2. Rethinking the water fountain (there is no great stagnation).

3. Markets in almost nothing?

4. Blood monitoring implant tells your smart phone when you are about to have a heart attack.

5. When do budget rules work?

1. The news ecosystem of Myanmar.

2. Impoverished memory for elevator buttons.

3. Hitchhiking America by private plane.

4. Jaron Lanier on data rights.

5. The life of Ruth Rendell.

6. Texas Monthly hires full-time barbecue editor for new “golden age” of Texas barbecue.

1. What are the consequences of late marriage?

2. A closer look at the health care cost slowdown.

3. Update on Chinese plans for Iceland.

4. The black box that is Google (a redo of “I, Pencil,” arguably).

5. Bostridge on Britten.

6. ZeroHedge speculates on Cyprus.  I don’t see how even the “good bank” will be able to survive under the plan in the works.  The key question is whether any enacted plan has a deposit guarantee backed by the EU as a whole and right now that looks quite unlikely.  Capital controls will sever the “Cypriot euro” from the euro more generally and de facto end the euro era in Cyprus.  It will be very hard to ever take them off (how soon can you imagine Cyprus rebuilding its credibility?)  Another question is what Cypriot legislators actually will vote for, given their connections to Russia and perhaps also their fear of Russian reprisals against their persons.  There is a very good Cyprus post here, and another here.  Here is a very good post on what is in the capital controls, lots.

1. An Albertan house in exchange for Bitcoin.

2. More paintings by GWB.

3. David Brooks on the Tetlock forecasting competitions.

4. What do the debt graphs look like with 1.5% economic growth?

5. Is quantum computing basically upon us?

6. Richard A. Epstein is on Twitter.

1. The Sommelier Olympics.

2. Beware the fungi in your bagpipes.

3. Claims about why there are so few female magicians.

4. International textbook resale is allowed by the Supreme Court.

5. Interview with Jason Brennan.

1. How are statistics and technology and analytics changing basketball?

2. U.S. grants first license for 3-D printed guns.

3. Sweden has night nurseries.

4. My Google+ hangout, with The Economist, on American competitiveness.  You can see my Antoine voodoo flag hanging in the background.

5. Judge Douglas Ginsburg to return to GMU faculty.

6. A short history of Cypriot prosperity.

1. Excellent post on the biases of economists, and penguin plays an iPad game for cats.

2. The distraction-free iPhone.

3. Is North Korea running a current account surplus?

4. Meg Greene on the Cyprus deal.

5. A staring game and its resolution (short video, profound along multiple dimensions).

6. An “option clause” proposal for Cyprus, Felix Salmon likes the idea.  And Pissarides on Cyprus.

1. Smiling fighters are more likely to lose.

2. Posner on automation and employment.

3. Is it a mistake to Punjabify Thai food, and what is wrong with the North Indian palate anyway? And a short piece on how much Indian women drink alcohol (not that much).

4. What New Zealand has become.

5. Robin Hanson on MetaMed.

6. Choosing the right seat, and does capital accumulate and labor not?

7. Perry Anderson on Cyprus.

1. Against zippers.

2. Our political culture of too-soft expectations, and Pearlstein on whether capitalism is moral.

3. Bookslut on E.M. Cioran and fascism.

4. More from Pawel Morski on Cyprus.

5. What will Albania do with all those concrete bunkers?

6. Has the golden era of German publishing come to an end?

1. Cockatoos exhibit self-control in nut-trading games.

2. How to enjoy your iPhone much much more, as taught by the Japanese.  Or try this link here: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/03/15/this-bubble-wrap-iphone-case-will-keep-you-satisfied-365-days-a-year/

3. Free tuition until you get a job.

4. Does delaying marriage hurt the middle class most?

5. Kickstarter project related to Milton Friedman and teaching economics to young kids.

6. The story of a writer, numerous pieces of wisdom therein, recommended.

1. Will Australia burn Alex at the stake?

2. The fox and the hedgehog, literally.

3. The Ricardian elephant at work, Indian bulldozer edition.

4. Disputes over robot grading.

5. Word lens video, and chimera teeth.

6. Where is Medicare cost inflation coming from?

1. For marketing purposes, I would not myself have called it “Soylent, and more here.

2. The (tank) culture that is Russia.

3. Facebook page on project evaluation.

4. Claims about Google glasses.

5. New FDA guidelines for Alzheimer’s drugs, and grocery gift cards for Medicare patients.

6. California makes a big move with on-line education.

1. History’s greatest monsters.

2. Can China escape the middle income trap?

3. Acemoglu and Robinson respond to Gates.

4. East India Company: the original too big to fail firm?

5. Should musical instruments have passports?

6. Is there anything special about a balanced budget?

1. Resource mobility in Japan.

2. The culture that is New York; “You likely wouldn’t have sex with someone who took you to the wrong restaurant (or at least wouldn’t be happy about it).”

3. Bryan Caplan on the minimum wage.

4. Vivek Wadhwa on the great stagnation.

5. I favor the campus right to a guinea pig.