AIT so far
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Last August, I did a blog post suggesting that in order for the Fed’s new average inflation targeting policy to be successful...
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Feedburner is ending
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn I’m not entirely sure what Feedburner is, but I’m told that it is important to many of you. The program is ending...
The new “election fraud”
Here’s Bloomberg: “We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of any democracy,” Israeli...
Vermont and Wyoming
Vermont has the nation’s highest vaccination rate — 72.4%Wyoming has a rate that is well below average — 38.2%Why such a big difference? These states...
Are the jobs gone forever?
In my previous post, I linked to a Tyler Cowen post that quoted Betsey Stevenson: The problem is that old jobs are long gone for...
The unvaccinated and the unemployed
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Roughly 49% of the US population has not received at least the first dose of a Covid vaccine. Total employment is down...
Not the USA
Here’s The Economist, discussing the woes of the Labour Party: In their recent book “Brexit Land” two academics at the University of Manchester, Maria Sobolewska...
Edward Nelson on Milton Friedman
While I’m only 275 pages into Ed Nelson’s big 2 volume set entitled “Milton Friedman & Economic Debate in the United States”, I can already...
“Which laboratory is responsible matters little”
Back in 2014, there was a vigorous debate over gain-of-function (GoF) research. Prestigious journals published articles showing that this research is extremely dangerous, and probably...
Mark Carney on NGDP targeting
David Beckworth has a new podcast where he interviews Mark Carney, former head of the Bank of England (and previously the Bank of Canada.) This...