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1. More on Jon Huntsman.

2. Has there been an output gap in Japan?  No, and this short paper is interesting throughout.

3. Should we board airplanes by rows?

4. Can they scan the iris of every Indian?  Should they?

5. I shall not be moving to Kentucky.

6. Ed Glaeser on government refinancing of mortgages.

1. An oldie but goodie: let’s not forget Christina Romer’s classic paper on spurious volatility in the historical data (pdf).  This is with reference to recent writings from Eichengreen and Roubini.  I don’t favor a gold standard but criticisms should start with this paper.

2. Critical review of the new MLK memorial.

3. What do anesthetics do?

4. Predictions by Pettis, mostly correct I think, in any case worth a read.

5. Some of Alan Krueger’s academic work.

1. Joseph Stiglitz thinks that wage rigidity is unimportant.

2. The risk and intensity of sperm ejection in female birds.

3. Schelling point ha!

4. Brad DeLong on Stephen Williamson.

1. Relative Irish bond yields, read the comments also, more on Ireland, and more on Greek banks.

2. Is China’s dominance a sure thing? (pdf, and where does that seven percent growth assumption come from anyway?)

3. Is oil constraining economic growth?  And Richard Posner as pessimist.

4. Han Solo markets in everything (“The Empire will compensate you if he melts”)

5. Where did Einstein’s equation come from?

1. Mike’s dinner with me and Chug, and my take.

2. Does Australia have a Dutch disease?

3. Energy and the Industrial Revolution, very good piece.

4. David Beckworth provides a neo-monetarist critique of the “balance sheet recession” view.

5. Why more polygyny in West Africa? (pdf)

1. How to do direct-to-Kindle publishing.

2. The limits of price discrimination.

3. What the world looks like to a bee.

4. Seven scenarios for the decline of transhumanism.

5. Irish trade surplus hits a new record.

6. DC earthquake devastation.

1. Die Welt on Ireland, and the FT on Ireland, lots of Irish comments here.

2. The illusion of asymmetric insight, good starting point for understanding the blogosphere.

3. Scorsese trailer for the George Harrison movie to come.

4. Is the Iranian economy improving?

5. How to get 211 tons of gold to Venezuela.

6. How likely are ob-gyns (of various religions) to provide abortions?

1. Overview of the new Jonathan Haidt book.

2. The culture that is Indiana.

3. Marxist version of the TGS argument.

4. A claim that everyone’s wages should be made public.

5. Where children sleep.

1. La Nacion interview with me.

2. Why they smuggle U.S. drugs into Mexico.

3. What would Lord Monboddo say (video)?

4. Nine early Hitchcock silents are being restored.

5. The ongoing Greek war against bank runs.

1. What went wrong with the reconstruction of Haiti?  A long feature article, mostly good though it is wrong, and arguably insane, to criticize the development models of Haiti’s past as too “business friendly.”

2. Michael Clemens: where are the free trillion dollar bills?

3. Is something strange going on in Hungary?

4. Company scans your books for a dollar.

5. Scott Sumner on Japan.

1. The economics of speech (video).

2. Harold Bloom recommends Five Books, and diagnoses the Tea Party.

3. Guy keeps Manhattan parking spot for 11 years, feeds the meter every day for $36, via Annie Lowrey.

4. African econonomic growth.

5. How markets work, how lawyers work.

1. Advice for a budding neuroscientist.

2. How canaries court.

3. Korean markets in everything, and umbrella markets in everything.

4. Will the U.S. again become the world energy capital?

5. Der Theoretiker des Stillstands, Handelsblatt profile of me.  And how a German politician apologizes for an affair with a 16-year-old (in German), no hope for the eurozone, hat tip Yana.  In English, Kenneth Silber reviews TGS.

1. Government employment in Texas, and Texas and immigration.

2. Urban economics is for the birds.

3. Any chance Ireland is turning the corner?

4. How to judge a pizza.

5. A symposium on how to reorient the U.S. economy, including Posen on the housing market.

1. How to run a class for 58,000 people.

2. The declining quantity of Freemasons.

3. Bob Murphy on who predicted what.

4. You have to sign a two-page contract to eat at DC’s hot new restaurant.

5. Are most modern humans just like Neanderthals?

6. Do high status people use pronouns less?, and other interesting results (caveat emptor, though).