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24.04.2025
Mansion Global : Before the palisades fires, a nearbySanta Monica property was listed at $15,000 per month. But afterwards, the landlord...
22.04.2025
WSJ : On Monday Mr. Trump demanded again that [the Federal Reserve] make “pre-emptive” interest rate cuts to avoid a slowdown. The Fed...
18.04.2025
The robotaxi business is getting another entrant, but also a different kind of entrant. Zoox , a decade old startup purchased by Amazon in 2...
16.04.2025
To prevent the spread of bird flu, 166 million birds were culled, most toward the end of 2024. Since the US typically has about 400 million...
15.04.2025
Google on the re-shoring response to 2018 Appliance Tariffs : In response to the 2018 U.S. tariffs on washing machines and other appliances...
The Visual Capitalist produces many wonderful visualizations. This one displays how fast firms rise into and fall out of the the top US 10 ...
05.04.2025
Trade policy has the characteristic of a Prisoners' Dilemma game: free trade is the best outcome (no tariffs), but that is not a Nash Equili...
02.04.2025
Only if you ask an ecologist . "We are using 50% more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course, that ...
31.03.2025
Open Philanthropy's Progress and Growth Fund ...scientific and technological progress that creates ideas is the main driver of long-run ...
26.03.2025
From Bryan Caplan's Bet On It : “In their recent article,‘Why People Prefer Unequal Societies,’the psychologists Christina Starmans, Mark...
25.03.2025
Economist : [Cambridge, MA] is “becoming a barbell society,” ...The poor got help and the wealthy lived well, but ... young families lea...
24.03.2025
Economist : The magazine article focuses on explaining "residual" happiness, the vertical distance between the line and the observation),...
23.03.2025
From MarginalRevolution : Danish houses near wind turbines have 12% lower prices.
18.03.2025
John Cochrane recommends the Economist article Aid cannot make poor countries rich. From 2004 to 2014, foreign aid increased by 75%, but i...
14.03.2025
Article by Joshua Hendrickson The U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency, and the U.S. Treasury security is the global reserve asset...
11.03.2025
I ran across this image that seems to support the idea capital/labor substitution in software development (see earlier pos t). Stack overflo...
08.03.2025
Alcoa would seem to benefit from an increase in demand for domestically produced aluminum from the imposition of 25% tariffs on steel and al...
04.03.2025
Is narc'ing on your competition the prisoners' dilemma equilibrium?
01.03.2025
The WSJ reports on the Egg Clearinghouse, or ECI while we are in the midst of the recent dramatic egg shortage and increase in egg prices....
25.02.2025
The employment market for software developers sucks right now. ADP released a study from their payroll data in June, 2024 that included thi...
Baby or Your Money Back It’s that simple. If your IVF is not successful after 2 cycles, you make an insurance claim. You get] your money...
WSJ : With a list price of $3.7 million, Ferrari’s new “hypercar” was revealed to the public in October with a twist: It wasn’t availabl...
21.02.2025
Economist : Let us spell out the reality Europe faces. It is an indebted, ageing continent that is barely growing and cannot defend itsel...
20.02.2025
The WSJ recent;y reported on lawsuits by Internet influencrs against the makers of browser extensions that seek out discounts. These extens...
19.02.2025
Economist : In America returns are especially large in computer science and in engineering. They are slightly smaller in other science su...
From ChatGPT: Thomas Jefferson would likely have mixed feelings about a Department of Government Efficiency, depending on its scope and func...
A new paper by Azevedo, Beauchamp, and Linnér (ABL) finds that some predictions are coming true and that may be a problem. Economists predi...
Fron WKRN : “There are too many liquor stores in Lebanon, just at the rate that more stores are opening. I never really felt that way befor...
01.02.2025
It had been hard to manage an airline in the Covid-19 and early post-Covid-19 era. As Alison Sider at the WSJ reports: Airfares plunged i...
From the Economist : The international tax system has long suffered from two related problems: firms go to great lengths to book profits ...
26.01.2025
That is how much it costs to join Tawkify. A friend said he found his dates interesting (so it was) but complained about the distance he h...
24.01.2025
Yes, by 15%. From a paper by some middling economists, Mergers, Cartels, Set-Asides, and Bidding Preferences in Asymmetric Oral Auctions , ...
23.01.2025
There can be many hurdles to becoming an entrepreneur, particularly for those without a background in business startups. New findings from D...
16.01.2025
From REASON : On January 7, Newsom issued a state of emergency as fires spread in Los Angeles County. On Tuesday, Newsom signed Executive O...
The Economist does: Strict regulations in LA require new homes to be fire-resistant, but most homes are not new. NIMBYism and convoluted e...
14.01.2025
Economist : Jan 13, 2025 The dollar reached a two-year high against a basket of major currencies, bolstered by a strong jobs report, relea...
11.01.2025
Noah Smith via Marginal Revolution , and Kim Mai Cutler . The CA insurance regulator is elected, and is reluctant to allow higher rat...
Breaking : ...US District Judge Reed O’Connor found that the airline breached its fiduciary duty ... by prioritizing ESG considerations ov...
10.01.2025
Economist : In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its share of the...
From CalculatedRisk : The bottom line is there will not be a huge wave of distressed sales as happened following the housing bubble. Most ho...