Finance

From an MR reader: The country’s democratic legislature passed two pro-market bills this time. 1) HB2404 CD 1 represents the largest income tax cut in […]

Here is the video, audio, and transcript. Here is a summary of the episode: It’s not just churrasco that made him fall in love with […]

1. Reincarnation of Tibetan sex request as a trait? 2. How much infrastructure is the biggest problem in the north of England? 3. Vivek Ramaswamy’s […]

There’s a thought I’ve had in my head recently posted by Scott Sumner helped bring focus. He said that sometimes there can be a failure […]

Kholodilin provides a comprehensive review of the rent control literature, some 206 papers, published and unpublished from 1967-2013. The results are summarized in the figure […]

Dog found zip tied and rescued in Malibu YouTube 🙁 The Yellowstone supervolcano destroyed the ecosystem but saved us the ars technica (Kevin W) How […]

Yves here. Although the AMA played a major role in setting up alternative forms of public health care, they were far from the only bad […]

New fare for Venice day trippers. The upcoming ban on vacation rentals in Barcelona. Restrictions on the sale of alcohol in Majorca. At a time […]

That’s the subject of my latest Bloomberg column, and here’s one excerpt, starting with the reality of Brazil’s hyperinflation in the early 1990s: Fortunately, economists […]

…although the data is incomplete for 2022. Figure 1: The geometric mean of reserves (expressed in USD) of major banks’ reporting. Very incomplete data for […]