Finance

After a 2018 decision by the US Supreme Court, 38 states have legalized sports gambling. We study how this policy has impacted consumers’ financial health […]

Akash God is a 23-year-old cognitive science graduate from UC Berkeley and chief canine companion at Dognosis, where he develops technology that increases the bandwidth […]

Starting today: For comparison, here is the y/y (official) inflation rate (through June). With the policy rate at 18%, and year-over-year inflation at 8.6% (as […]

Real wages are expected to increase by 3.5 percent this year, along with a 3 percent increase in disposable income, according to Russia’s Center for […]

Part 3: Rejecting Inequality This is the third part of a three-part series. In part one of this series, I discussed different types of inequality […]

1. Two quotes from Patrick Collison about training. 2. The refrigerator anecdote. 3. Nick Whitaker prioritizes AI policy. 4. “The US economy has been growing […]

Nominal consumption, PCE deflator m/m consensus, income +0.2% vs. + 0.4%. Here is a snapshot of the NBER BCDC key indicators and monthly GDP: Figure […]

Reuters: In order to learn how this global industry works, journalists have bought several precursors over the past year. Although a few sales turned out […]

Tosca and the baby seagull One Garden Against the World The World Built for Capitals (excerpt) The Flaming Hydra Trail cameras capture first-of-its-kind images of […]

This is the subject of my latest column for Bloomberg, here is an excerpt: A recent study finds that, of all domestic subsidies, the most […]