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1. Manifold on whether various public intellectual are overrated or underrated.

2. Somaliland update, good and important piece.

3. Milei on technological progress and economic growth.

4. Used fire trucks can be pretty cheap, relatively speaking.

5. Pilot union resistance to safety reforms.

6. “Interestingly, news coverage has become increasingly negative across all states in the past half-century.”

1. Data on the bullets fired in Salt Lake City.

2. Have we passed “peak economics”?

3. Walk and talk: everything we know.

4. Bob Lawson appreciation of Jim Gwartney (WSJ).

5. Regulatory reform for Britain, using insurance-based ideas.

6. Solar eclipses and economic development?

7. Reforming intramural NIH.

1. Can it make sense to spend $2500 at Applebee’s?

2. Getting over being a culture incel.

3. Review of Phind.

4. What people pay per hour, for varying forms of entertainment.

5. Brendan McCord is starting the Cosmos Institute, to study AI, philosophy, political philosophy, and the classics.

6. Severe financial pressures at University of Chicago.

1. Flowers are evolving (rapidly) to have less sex (NYT).

2. Europe’s political stupor, excellent essay by Leopold Aschenbrenner.

3. Navajo Nation’s objection to landing human remains on the moon prompts last-minute White House meeting.

4. Horse cloning transforms polo in Argentina.  “Using embryo transfers, a single horse can now give birth to as many as 10 foals per year, instead of one…”

5. Model this (NYT): “Maine at Augusta spent $15,225 last year for the right to market U.S. News “badges” — handsome seals with U.S. News’s logo — commemorating three honors: the 61st-ranked online bachelor’s program for veterans, the 79th-ranked online bachelor’s in business and the 104th-ranked online bachelor’s.”

6. Mexican drone attack kills 30 in Guerrero (in Spanish).

1. Problems with U.S. shipyards.

2. Satellite imaging shows there is a lot more industry in the ocean than we had thought.

3. My podcast episode with Will Bachman, most of all about talent see also the Show Notes at the link.

4. Bravo NYT, glad they signaled their intent was not to insult my intelligence.

5. Straussian Taylor Swift? (NYT)

6. Scott Sumner movie and book reviews, he also has perfect taste in fiction.

7. Court strikes down some of Milei’s labor reforms.

1. Jeffrey Paller 19 books to read on Africa.

2. Making the micropipette.

3. Miss America supports nuclear power.

4. “We found that living standards generally predicted and temporally preceded variations of romantic love in the Early Modern Period.”

5. Why is the Dominican Republican incumbent popular?

6. Very good Douthat column on higher education (NYT).  And: “Yet, through all her troubles, not a single right-leaning voice spoke up on Gay’s behalf. Indeed, during the past month, I didn’t talk to a single Republican on the Hill or around D.C. who had any kind of relationship with Gay. You might ask how Harvard’s president could have so few relationships.”  A good piece.

7. Twitter summary of the new superconductivity rumors.

1. The logic of American vs. Japanese ghost stories.

2. Paul Krugman on the economics of slavery (NYT).

3. The Year in Interintellect.

4. Casey Handmer on Elon Musk.

5. Nils Karlson open-access book on classical liberalism vs. populism.  The book is very much on the mark and I was happy to blurb it.

6. What Bill Ackman is up to.  A very long, programmatic tweet.

7. Good background explainer on the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal (NYT).  The agreement may end up with some charter city-like elements.

1. Scott Sumner on money/macro GOAT (I largely agree with his perspective and picks).

2. Monopsony amplifies distortions from progressive taxes.

3. Temporarily Coasean Ethiopia and Somaliland deal.

4. Anselm Kiefer in 3-D Glory.

5. Best skyscrapers of 2023?  Notably Latin America is well ahead of China.

6. 2024 is the biggest election year in history.

7. Against habits.

1. A claim that we are in a new world of RBC theory.

2. Orson Welles on Woody Allen.

3. Indian books published in English translation in 2023.

4. By the way, the strongest movie actor GOAT contenders from abroad are Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Mifune, Juliette Binoche, Isabel Huppert, Marcello Mastroianni, Klaus Kinski, and Max von Sydow.  Chow Yun-Fat and Max von Sydow are my personal favorites, though I am not sure they are foreign winners in more objective terms.  British people don’t count for this designation, though Charlie Chaplin is a good dark horse pick (though not the winner) for the broader designation.  I can’t bring myself to mention the Putin lover from France.  Mel Gibson is higher in the rankings than many people wish to admit, and he is Australian, sort of, though most of all a creature of Hollywood.  Bollywood is a whole separate thing, but they have some definite contenders.  As for Marlon Brando, I think too many of his performances now come across as excessively mannered.  Where is his cult following?  Somewhere in Osaka?  He was very talented but seems of the past.

5. Any “very heavy” reliance on real shocks to explain the macro of the last two years has to account for why 2021 had high growth rates, in spite of supply chains then being quite tangled.  And why prices haven’t gone back down to their original levels?  And what happened to aggregate demand, once the Fed turned its attention to the problem?  There simply was a huge, negative AD shock in recent times, at least under any non-tautological definition of aggregate demand.  Why didn’t that crush us?  Any account needs to address these issues.

6. The labor market DNUs from Argentina.

1. What Kent Hendricks learned this year, always good.

2. NYT calls for the total destruction of all extant major LLMs.  Of course this should be a scandal, and considered an example of unacceptable predatory behavior, but it isn’t.  How is this different from what a super-villain would say?  Brian Chau, telephone!

3. “A sweeping purge of Chinese generals has weakened the People’s Liberation Army, exposing deep-rooted corruption that could take more time to fix and slow Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s military modernization drive amid geopolitical tensions, analysts say.”  And is the CCP moving on Alipay?

4. Where to eat in Madrid.

5. The sources of cost inflation at Auburn University (WSJ).

6. The kinds of questions people are asking GOAT.  Galbraith gets his chance!

7. Milei kissing his girlfriend.  And Milei responding to a critic on socialism.

8. Maxim Lott monitors political bias in chatbots.

9. Hannah Ritchie sanity on climate change (NYT).

10. What Shruti has been reading.

1. Music in outer space?

2. John Stuart Mill’s advice on human flourishing.

3. The patrilocal trap.

4. Helsinki’s KOM Theatre is trialling English language surtitles for audiences who don’t speak Finnish.

5. Fujimori’s lessons for Milei.

6. Andrew Batson best books of 2023 list, interesting throughout.

1. How the president of Columbia University avoided much of the current mess (NYT).  She also is an economist.  And part of how Harvard screwed up the tactics on the PR side.

2. Profile of Stevenson and Wolfers.

3. A typology of who is easiest and hardest to troll on-line.  For instance: “People who are focused on economic issues are harder to troll. People who care primarily about social issues are easier to troll.”

4. Scott Sumner on my macro podcast with David Beckworth.

5. A claim that NYT will lose their copyright case.  And Rohit.  And Kevin Fischer.  So far Open AI is favored in the betting markets.

6. “UAE emerges as Africa’s largest FDI provider, funneling $59.4 billion into key sectors like infrastructure and energy.”

7. Electoral reforms proposed by Milei.

1. Claims about coffee, and how to make it taste better.

2. Ed Glaeser on the changing fact of NYC (NYT).

3. Jacques Delors, RIP at 98 (FT).

4. New breakthroughs in biotech.

5. Age differences in romance.

6. The New Left takes some digs at The Beatles.  An unfair but interesting piece, sometimes getting it right.  Quite a good piece at its peaks.

7. David Brooks’s Sidney Awards go to small magazine pieces this year (NYT).

1. Cam Peters does his Favorite Things New Zealand.

2. China accusation of the day, anal beads edition.

3. Progress on the Moderna mRNA cancer vaccine.  This shows you just how bad and anti-scientific the anti-vaxx movement currently is.

4. First nuclear reactor since 2016 in the U.S. is now in operation.

5. Wolfgang Schäuble, RIP.

6. Private equity and hospital performance.

7. Gavin Leech on the year in AI.

1. Dwarkesh on the arguments pro- and anti-scaling.

2. Defending billionaire-built cities (NYT, Glaeser and Ratti).

3. Open Skies policy for Argentina.

4. Managerial innovations in America from WWII?

5. From the comments:

So reading through the parliamentary rules, this is what I’m gathering about the process:

1. Milei’s government has 10 days to formally submit the DNU to a bicameral commission consisting of 8 senators and 8 congressman (apportioned to their relative majorities in the houses)
2. The commission then has 10 days to submit their formal opinions to their respective houses of congress.
3. Each house votes on the DNU, and cannot introduce amendments or deletions to the proposed DNU.
4. rejection by both houses will permanently strike down the DNU. It does not specify what a split decision means – perhaps it means its not defeated?

With that in mind, to answer your other question If Milei introduced the DNU as a bunch of separate ones, it would seem to me they would vote on the validity of each. Since no amendments can be made by congress, it’s possible that negotiations are occurring right now before Milei’s gov has to formally submit them to congress for review.

Rules link: https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/115000-119999/118261/norma.htm