Economy
Questions that will be increasingly asked
Sam Altman asks if our personalized AI companions of the future could be subpoenaed to testify agai ...View More
Mask Mandate Costs
There is now an NBER working paper on this topic: This paper presents the results from a hypothetica ...View More
What should I ask Velina Tchakarova?
Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with her. She runs a geopolitics firm, hails from Bulgaria ...View More
*Shock Value: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy*
That is the new and very useful book by Carola Binder, mostly a very good economic history. He ...View More
Interview with Cliff Winston
An excellent interview of economist Cliff Winston with Joe Lonsdale covering occupational licensing, ...View More
Frank Stella, RIP
Frank Stella, RIP - Marginal REVOLUTION ...View More
U.S.A.-India fact of the day
US ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, has emphasized the remarkable success of Indian immigrants in ...View More
Will Sri Lanka have gdp-linked bonds?
Negotiations to finally bring an end to Sri Lanka’s long-running $13bn debt default could result in ...View More
Thwarted markets in everything, antiquities remain underpriced
An auction house has withdrawn 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls from sale after an MP said selling ...View More
Who was the wealthiest man in the world in the 1830s?
Wu Bingjian, better known in the west as ‘Houqua’, or sometimes ‘Howqua’, was the most successful Ch ...View More
