A very scary headline
This Bloomberg headline doesn’t look very promising: SALT-Cap Repeal Gains Momentum With House Bipartisan Caucus It”s hard to think of any plausible legislative action that...
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The woke embrace white identity
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Razib Khan has an excellent post discussing the recent trend of woke private schools setting up white affinity groups: But the real...
Puritanism bleg
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Why does Puritanism go in and out of style? What explains the Victorian era? Was it the rise of the middle class?...
Nick Rowe on interest rates and inflation
Nick Rowe has an excellent twitter thread on interest rates and inflation: Here I will focus on what I see as the most important parts...
Capitalism caused the huge decline in global poverty
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The evidence for this claim is so overwhelming that it shouldn’t even be up for debate. Time series evidence, cross sectional, it...
Films of 2021:Q1
Here’s what I saw over the past three months:Newer Films:Our Time (Mexico) 3.8 Carlos Reygadas is probably the least famous of the four directors in...
Ed Nelson on Milton Friedman
One of my favorite David Beckworth podcasts is his interview of Ed Nelson, who has recently published a book on Milton Friedman (which I plan...
Bartenders would hate me
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tyler Cowen directed me to this Adam Ozimek tweet: When fiscal stimulus is spent in the US then we can expect inflation...
Back to normal?
A year ago I suggested that we had under-reacted in the early stage of Covid-19 and would overreact at the end of the pandemic. And...
Do as we say, not as we do
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn International relations are full of hypocrisy, but rarely so obvious as in this case: Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly called on...