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1. Review of the new Chris Hayes book.

2. Garett Jones on speed bankruptcy (pdf).

3. The politics of Obama vs. Romney; politics isn’t about policy!

4. NYT presents 32 innovations that will change our world; are you impressed by their list?  I like this one:

A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has found that the way you move your phone to your ear while answering a call is as distinct as a fingerprint. You take it up at a speed and angle that’s almost impossible for others to replicate. Which makes it a more reliable password than anything you’d come up with yourself. (The most common iPhone password is “1234.”) Down the line, simple movements, like the way you shift in your chair, might also replace passwords on your computer. It could also be the master key to the seven million passwords you set up all over the Internet but keep forgetting.

5. Are economics Ph.D programs teaching the right material?

6. More Paul Krugman on science fiction.

1. Update on India’s gdp growth.  Not good, 5.3%.

2. CrookedTimber runs book event on Spufford’s Red Plenty.

3. What is driving the growth in U.S. exports?, and here are some numbers and estimates for a manufacturing renaissance in the Midwest.

4. There is no great stagnation.

1. Markets in everything radio call-in edition.

2. Unused parking meter time markets in everything.

3. Update on India’s gdp growth.  Not good, 5.3%.  Addendum: Correct link is here.

4. Markets in everything hurricane simulator.

5. Video of my earlier talk in Milan on the eurocrisis.

1. Austin Frakt annotates An Economist Gets Lunch.

2. Plan a frugal trip in Sweden.

3. I say this graph shows nothing, though that too says something.

4. Ben & Jerry’s “flavor graveyard” should be expanded, considerably.

5. Claims about a new property bubble in Iceland, treat with caution.

1. The new Honduran free city?

2. Guar bean boom in India, can you guess why?

3. Miles Kimball is now blogging.

4. Is there any capital flight from Japan?

1. The global trade in meteorites.

2. Offshoring pregnancy and birth to India, and helping workers relocate.

3. The chess player who outsmarted JPMorgan.

4. What happens when a company tries truly transparent pricing?  It is an interesting link.

5. 25 (!) “Propuestas” by XSiM, how to fix the Spanish crisis, in Spanish, how many of the twenty-five do they need?  Consider this one: “19. Meritocracia.“

1. Good website about GMOs.

2. Are CEOs who served in the military more trustworthy?

3. The culture that is India.

4. Prologue to the new Taleb book (pdf).

5. On the imperfections of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

1. What word use tells us about blogger personality types.

2. David Leonhardt reviews the new Michael Lind book.

3. Survivorship bias in art price indices.

4. Arnold Kling reviews Edward Conard.

5. Haiti photo show, and Harvard’s quest for an economic historian.

1. Are used TVs being overpriced?

2. The science of love in the 1920s, from Hugo Gernsback.

3. The dark side of Irving Fisher.

4. New sensory organ discovered in whales.

5. Freakonomics interview on the economics of food, including also Michael Pollan and others.

1. Via Chris F. Masse, new solutions to Greek problems, using iPads, and this is coming soon to your Mac, maybe it can patch up Spain.

2. Does self-deception inhibit laughter?

3. Are chimp personalities similar to those of humans?

4. Review of the new Google car.

5. Do people like spoiled stories more?

1. Credit guarantee risk in China.

2. The world’s largest swimming pool.

3. ELA and now “de-euroisation” are the words which should be attracting your attention these days.

4. How will self-driving cars reshape our cities?

5. Truly disgusting markets in everything, calling Jonathan Haidt, you are needed in Tokyo.  I still wonder if it is some kind of joke.

1. Marc Gunther’s blog on food, sustainability, economics, and related matters.  It is analytical, not just the usual rhetoric on these topics.

2. Does Hayek’s welfare state lead to serfdom?  And how to unfold a rhino (short video).

3. Summary of the No-sterity debate.

4. Have we been underestimating the extent of the growth of the middle class in developing nations?

5. More on genes and economics.

1. Edible stop signs in food.

2. Will smartphones alter psychology?

3. Ask Cowen Anything (on food), and Jerry Weinberger reviews An Economist Gets Lunch.

4. How do science fiction futures change over time?

5. Why is American mobility declining?

6. Saez and Diamond on taxes.

1. Is Sweden or England the paragon of “austerity”?  Scott Sumner comments.

2. Has Australia been avoiding economic stagnation?

3. Criticisms of Aishwarya Rai.

4. Giant turtle dined on crocodiles.

5. 4-D, edible movies.

6. Via Chris F. Masse, Peter Thiel in New Zealand.

1. Romanian uh-oh.

2. The beloved FT Alphaville launches a Tumblr.

3. The new Brian Doherty book on Ron Paul.

4. James Crabtree worries about India and India facing stagflation.  This whole matter is already looking worse.

5. The bank jog, a deadly picture.

6. How much will global aging slow economic growth?