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1. A very good blog by a seven-year-old; can you guess the topic?
2. Is the whole CDS market becoming bogus? Is it now just a slightly crooked game of how to define a “credit event”?
3. Four miles of protestors in Yemen.
4. Macropolicy lessons from Sweden; and see #5 on the role of the Fed in bailing them out.
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2. Recommended readings for development economists and aid workers.
3. There is no Great Stagnation. And a cartoon version of the argument.
4. Is BitCoin getting back on its feet? Read here and here.
5. Could the multiverse and “many worlds” actually be the same idea? Caveat emptor!
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1. The last few times Brad DeLong has criticized me, he has simply imagined I hold positions which I do not. Again. And here is the time before that. Perhaps he too quickly slots my views into debates he has with other people, when he sees some overlapping of claims. On the first link, my point was to raise a certain “tension” in when market prices are considered sufficient statistics for “trouble” or not; I did not claim the two borrowing situations were the same or that currency denomination of debt is irrelevant. On the second link, I’ve long argued we are seeing a mix of interacting AD and structural problems; Brad tries to refute me by showing — correctly — that there must be an AD problem in the mix. It might be a valid criticism to note that in both cases I was not explicit enough, but a) that is not a “simple error,” and b) I’ve been plenty explicit in past posts and I don’t feel like repeating myself all the time. I feel no guilt in putting some burden on the reader.
There is nothing wrong with the economics in Brad’s two posts, but in both cases he has failed The Tyler Cowen Turing Test. Admittedly, it may be a difficult test to pass, but actually I should hope that is the case.
2. Retail politics, Argentina style.
3. Pizza discipline.
4. The economics of payroll tax relief.
5. Former GMU econ Ph.d. student now is Prime Minister of Somalia.
6. Here is one of my old attempts at an ideological Turing test.
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1. What “Inside Job” got wrong.
2. Brave Emperor Penguin performs superhuman feat and challenges restrictive New Zealand immigration policy. There is currently no move to deport the penguin.
3. What is that poetry magazine doing with the $200 million?
4. The Dover Sole price guide.
5. The cost of the death penalty. And follow-up on James Verone.
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1. Love of spices, and a story about celiac disease.
2. Brad DeLong takes the ideological Turing test on Robert Nozick; here is Julian Sanchez on Nozick.
3. Interview with Jon Huntsman.
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1. A superb blog post about something I do not care about.
2. How to hold down health care costs: more and better TV.
3. Is the American public becoming more libertarian?
4. Failed Kiwi markets in everything.
5. An ideological Turing test, Bryan is correct by a long mile.
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1. New site for tracking economic indicators.
2. Claims about chocolate eating behavior, via Eric Barker.
5. The culture that is Japan there is no Great Stagnation (“Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef”….maybe they should consider sale at a discount.
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1. Some guy who reads a lot of books.
2. How to jam radio-detonated bombs, good article.
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1. Justin Wolfers makes Americans fat.
2. Prison is safer for black males than being on the streets.
3. Phagocytosis and Benny Hill. Youtube doubler is fun.
4. The Arty Bollocks Generator. I want one of these for statements of teaching philosophy.
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1. Price collapse for Japanese watermelon, down to $4,000.
2. In many U.S. counties, life expectancy for women is declining.
4. UFM in Guatemala.
6. Meandering but interesting blog post, culminating in a discussion of “peak attention” and Coasean growth.
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1. Workers’ share of U.S. national income, over time.
2. Neuroskeptic is now on Twitter.
3. How is Cass Sunstein doing?
4. Indian hangmen: thwarted markets in everything.
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1. Ganz, of Budapest, should be a household word. Here is an image from the impressive Hungarian Museum of Elektrotechnics, which by the way doesn’t seem to have a working website.
2. Felix Salmon on Stanley Fischer.
3. Salman Rushdie to write science fiction drama for television.
4. Ferris Bueller critique makes the movie sound better than it is.