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1. Against the “safe haven” argument; note also that terror planners in “safe” countries are likely to be more efficient, and thus more destructive, than planners in the wild.

2. Models vs. hand-waving, and They Already Told Tyler Cowen.  Most envy is local.

3. My old post on the macroeconomics of Superman.

4. Live blog of debt ceiling battles.

5. Do not visit the bear.  Got that?

1. El Mundo interview with me, in Spanish.

2. Why do criminals brazenly wear gang colors? (pdf)

3. Parking rates worldwide.

4. Markets in everything: will the police sell your phone number to journalists?

5. Chinese eminent domain, one way to do it.

1. “Blaming the Republicans” is used as a false substitute for “rejecting the doctrine.”  We can do both!

2. The Great Factor Price Equalization; in this framework I have been focusing on our inability to move U.S. labor up the value chain of production with new, complex ideas.  You can discuss the causality in a number of different ways, such as putting more causal emphasis on how outsourcing has chipped away at the previous networks of production.

3. The importance of Google+?

4. Markets in everything: snore absorption rooms.

5. Disputes over the size of Chinese debt.

6. Poor choice of words.  And how can the now-expensive city of Budapest make that list?

7. What are Norwegian prisons like?

1. Emergency markets in everything.

2. The dolphin Solow residual.

3. How much is life expectancy expected to rise?

4. From the Levy and Peart Summer Institute, history of economic thought videos and papers.

5. European winners and losers.

6. Will Spotify kill iTunes?

1. How to maximize the value of Larry Summers, and the interview is here.

2. This superhero cartoon spans many excellent themes.

3. The Age of the Infovore is now out in a Penguin India edition.

4. A crude look at some mortgage agency cumulative default rates.

5. Markets in everything, invisible art.

6. How to detect a counterfeit Apple stoer.

1. The marriage of Yglesias and Hanson?

2. Is this the most important chart in health policy?

3. How popular economics treats rationality.

4. Health is the health of the state.

5. The culture that is Pastafarian.

1. Many WWII bombs in Germany remain unexploded, and live, and they are (still) tracked with WWII reconnaissance photos.

2. Krugman can’t bring himself to present the figures on government spending.  Herbert Hoover raised spending and raised taxes too, in a slightly expansionary combination.  It is incorrect to take, say, a state governor who is pursuing a contractionary fiscal policy and liken that person to Hoover.  Krugman would do better to simply cede this historical point, which need not infringe upon his more general critique of contractionary policy.

3. What is a high mortgage default rate?, from Arnold Kling.  And Rortybomb, with links to Min, responds on GSEs, a useful post.

4. Are all non-Africans part Neanderthal?

5. A sign that “the Left” is falling apart too; how many hackneyed or false memes or misguided examples of us. vs. them thinking or mistakes of mood affiliation are in this blog post?  It is a veritable feast of fallacy and it should be studied by future historians.  (If you are looking for balance, try David Brooks on the contemporary right.)

1. Can you digitally organize your friends (acquaintances, enemies, etc.)?  (By the way, I haven’t yet figured out how to respond to Google+ queries, thanks if you sent me one though.)

2. Can the neuroeconomics revolution revolutionize psychiatry? (gated, in any case I am skeptical)

3. The new Tim Groseclose book on media bias is now out.

4. Professorial hobbies.

5. The demographic depression in household formation, or why housing may not recover anytime soon.

6. Star Trek vs. Anti-Star Trek.

1. What’s up with Incan khipus?

2. Italy vs. Japan, a good puzzle.

3. Do people mean what they say?

4. Markets in everything (beware: the link has a photo of a woman in a bikini).

5. One look at the Khan Academy.

1. Denver newspaper hires professional pot critic.

2. What Australian economists think.

3. Tim Harford’s TED talk.

4. Very good piece on Spotify.

5. CME to drop pork bellies contracts.

6. Peter Boettke on TGS.

1. The new real estate bubble; it’s for the birds.

2. Good news for beta males?

3. How do (should) we evaluate new and wacky claims?  And here is a new wacky claim, this time about economic growth and one of its apparent correlates (can you guess?)

4. Do parrots have individual names in the wild?

5. Blackburn reviews Parfit.

6. How much does it cost to go to Hogwarts?

1. Photos of Haitian vodou.

2. What most economists favor (pdf).

3. An even more expensive economics book, which someone in Jakarta found to be not worth the price.

4. What is the endgame for Republicans?

5. Review of the Gerry Gaus book.

6. Mark Koyama, our new and excellent colleague, is now on Twitter.

7. Debt ceiling contract on InTrade, somewhere there is an arbitrage opportunity!

1. European banks see the handwriting on the wall.

2. Toddlers ignore the daft.

3. The most expensive economics book ever?  (Buy it and be ignored by toddlers.)

4. afinetheorem.wordpress.com.

1. Build smaller prisons?

2. 30 years of innovation.

3. BdL: discount rate changes simply aren’t that powerful.

4. The rosy scenario for public works projects, by Virginia Postrel.

5. No markets in everything, Harry Potter edition.

6. How did Prohibition affect homicide rates?

7. The no-nonsense Thai approach to kicking addiction.

1. The tax culture that is Germany.

2. Most envy is local, installment #4521.

3. Photos of Chilean ash.

4. China’s bad debts.

5. Do we underestimate the costs of crime?