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1. Ross Douthat on late-term abortion (NYT). 2. That’s a lot of AI subscriptions. Somehow I found the link funny. 3. Pompidou Center located in…New […]

Yves here. OilPrice has missed a possible diesel shortage, so take this forecast with a pinch of salt. But having said that, they point to […]

It depends. But I would argue that what it depends on is probably different than what most people believe is important. When I was young, […]

Physicists Create One-Way Sound Waves Science Alert Oh, good. Expect better sounding weapons. The new science of death: ‘There’s something going on in the mind […]

Long story short, here’s one episode: Economists often talk about “factors of production”: things like labor, land and money. The phrase “minimum return to work/country/equity” […]

When should the government intervene? In introductory economics classes, we introduce market failures. In intermediate economics classes, we discuss them in detail. In advanced and […]

…it is noteworthy that if you look at the major deregulation measures in the last four years, most of them happened under Jimmy Carter (Natural […]

Nowcasts of NY and St. Louis Feds out today; St. Louis rose from 1.14% to 1.73% q/q AR. NY Fed, and GS tracking unchanged at […]

I was trying to figure out how to reconcile the impact of Trump’s 10%/60% tax on inflation. McKibbin-Hogan-Noland (2024) tracks the impact of this measure […]