Finance

Consumption, pre-personal money transfers, and (in April) production and sales in the commercial sector. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) from CES (blue), employment (orange), industrial […]

Ten years ago, 12 of the 17 Fed governors and presidents had doctorates in economics, or about 70 percent. When Hammack takes over for Mester […]

1. Coller-Dolittle prize for communication between two species. 2. The home countries of political leaders’ spouses influence where foreign aid allocations go. 3. Five ways […]

A fun but also informative fast-paced style debate between Bryan Caplan and Tyler on YIMBY and NIMBY. The post Caplan and Cowen appeared first on […]

Meet the world’s first edible robot Bangkok Post (furry) Scientists discover 50,000-year-old herpes virus – and maybe how modern humans came to rule the world […]

56 percent of Africa’s billionaires and more than 90 percent of its billionaires lived in just five countries in 2023 – South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, […]

Yves here. Satyajit was sent with some brain money, as the fictional treatment of death cannot be described as “easy”. He makes one of my […]

Answer from Greg Lukianoff & Andrea: Overwhelmingly, 57% of the more relaxed students in our study reported feelings of poor mental health at least half […]

I get questions about whether I’ve improved my opinion of Luke, since his last series against Minnesota was brilliantly, above Larry Bird-level. I’ve long thought […]

There are many theories about economists. Two are common. The first is that everything we think and learn is money. The second is that economists […]