Via Scott Sumner. The post That was then, this is now, German edition appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to Antique. The correct term is “struggle”. As ... by Anon In reply to Cancelled for wongthink. Yes, eg Bale and Giggs by stasi also: What the hell is go … | Continue reading

1. Rothfeld on Canetti. 2. New Euripides fragments discovered? 3. Varying observations on Bangladesh. 4. Wedding with lightsabers. 5. Seretse Khama. 6. Jake Seliger is entering hospice. The post Monday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to (No … | Continue reading

There are a lot of entertaining videos online about how to deter burglars. One of them makes a surprising claim: that a "Beware of Dog" sign might actually encourage a burglar. How? Well, it means a dog moves around inside... | Continue reading

There are a lot of entertaining videos online about how to deter burglars. One of them makes a surprising claim: that a "Beware of Dog" sign might actually encourage a burglar. How? Well, it means a dog moves around inside... | Continue reading

Why do so many economic historians ignore the benefits of the largest free-trade zone in history: inside the US! Thanks to the “dormant” commerce clause of the US Constitution, the US has achieved rapid growth, despite the tariffs. I write about it here: This Little-Known Section … | Continue reading

Introducing: Arena Magazine. It’s a print & digital magazine about tech, capitalism, and the USA – that’s actually on the side of tech, capitalism, and the USA! Subscribe: http://arenamag.com/join Here is a link and a thread. The post Arena magazine appeared first on Marginal REV … | Continue reading

One of the side benefits of shooting with a sensor that's had its CFA removed is that every pixel records information. There's no color array that has to be interpolated. The resulting files don't just have detail; the detail is... Related Stories Monochrome Sensor versus Color F … | Continue reading

1. Why has ornament in architecture declined? 2. Patrick McKenzie on the Crowdstripe failure. 3. David Brooks on AI (NYT). 4. I’ve already linked to this podcast with Julia La Roche, recorded before Biden left office. In it I predicted Kamala Harris will be the next POTUS. 5. The … | Continue reading

The UK Health Security Agency has raised their pandemic threat level for H5N1 bird flu from a 3 to a 4 on a 6 point scale. My takeaway is that we have completely failed to stem the outbreak in cattle, there has been animal to human transmission which we are surely undercounting, … | Continue reading

We provide credible estimates of the effect of duration and uncertainty in local regulatory approval times on the rate of housing production. The analysis derives from a novel dataset of development timelines for all multifamily housing projects permitted in the City of Los Angel … | Continue reading

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Now enter Bitcoin. Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming has introduced a bill to have the Treasury create a $67 billion (at current value) stockpile of the cryptocurrency, and Republican presidential nominee Donal … | Continue reading

Darlene wrote, a few days ago: Regarding your sports stories on a predominantly photography blog, let me level with you—some of the photo stuff bores me to tears. I mean, how many times can you read about gear or techniques... Related Stories Dog Bites (OT) Robert Elswit's B&W Ci … | Continue reading

Here is the paper, with co-authors Will Dobbie, Benjamin Goldman, Sonya R. Porter, and Crystal S. Yang. Here is the abstract: We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying … | Continue reading

1. Wolfgang Rihm, RIP (NYT). 2. Maduro at 82% to “win,” Polymarket puts this “under review,” however. 3. Fairfax County data center NIMBY uh-oh. 4. Higher inflation comes to Japan (NYT), 5. Rorschach test El Salvador prison video, interesting. 6. Thomas Sargent joins Cato as a vi … | Continue reading

The attack affected online services of all major Russian banks, national payment systems, social networks and messengers, government resources, and dozens of other services…Carpet-Bombing Hack: #Ukraine’s Intelligence (#HUR) has completed one of the largest cyberattacks on Russia … | Continue reading

We further show that demographic and productivity factors do not represent convincing drivers of real interest rates over long spans. That is from a new AER piece by Kenneth S. Rogoff, Barbara Rossi, and Paul Schmelzing. Here are less gated copies of the piece. Here are some MR p … | Continue reading

In the Austrian-Hungarian Empire during World War I: In order to obtain the required manpower, the armaments manufacturers began to pay their workers higher wages. This had an almost instant impact on other businesses and firms, which could not compete with the wages of the armam … | Continue reading

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is a very good movie. Romanian, bizarre, funny. 2. The Dual Beveridge Curve? 3. How price elastic is charitable giving? 4. Claims correlated with dark oxygen claims. 5. The Brain Book (for children). Supports the Albanian langua … | Continue reading

Comments are up to date as of 10:27 p.m. Tuesday. Have you ever noticed that sometimes when people are selling their fancy, expensive cameras online, the pictures of the item can be particularly crappy? Make up your own joke. I'd... Related Stories Two Failures Examples of 'Punct … | Continue reading

Jeffrey Clemens points us to some bonkers editorializing in the NYTimes coverage of the likely stolen election in Venezuela. The piece starts out reasonably enough: Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, was declared the winner of the country’s tumultuous presidential … | Continue reading

But many of the phrases the English grew up with are fading away as younger generations plug into TikTok or other platforms where they learn to call each other “Karen” or “basic” like any other rando, instead of sticking with tried and tested indigenous slurs. Nearly 60% of the G … | Continue reading

There is a very interesting new paper on this topic byIshan B. Nath, Valerie A. Ramey, and Peter J. Klenow. Here is the abstract: Does a permanent rise in temperature decrease the level or growth rate of GDP in affected countries? Differing answers to this question lead prominent … | Continue reading

It's COMMA-luh. Comma as in the punctuation mark. Luh, a schwa (the most common sound in English) with an L in front of it. (Link should open at the 28 second mark.) Speaking of punctuation marks, here's something cool that... Related Stories Open Mike: The Walk-Jog (OT) Open Mik … | Continue reading

Comments are up to date as of 2:09 Saturday I received a complaint recently that I opened the door for a discussion about Canon R cameras but then promptly fell down on keeping the comments current, and moved past the... Related Stories Canon Throws Out Baby With Bathwater I Was … | Continue reading

"Never say you’re going back—SHOOT IT NOW!" —Jay Maisel There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in... | Continue reading

Moon hunt: Summer lasts half as long as you want it to, and goes by twice as fast as it should. The last robin fledgling of the season left the nest today—I saw it; the cantaloupe are out at Raymond... | Continue reading

Comments are all moderated on the last two posts as of 12:38 Eastern Time Wednesday Some while ago I decided an exercise machine at home would be best for me, and I researched the alternatives. I always like to look... Related Stories What I Ended Up Doing Price Comparison for To … | Continue reading

Just a modest suggestion for people around my age. When I was 58 I had a bit of a life experience—I reconnected with a woman I had carried a torch for when we were young. She'd been divorced, and we... Related Stories Open Mike: The Great White Whale Why Do We Like the Sports We … | Continue reading

Comments are all up to date at Midnight between Monday and Tuesday. Sorry about the recent radio silence. I've been immersed in the political events here in the no longer United States, from the assassination attempt, to the Republican National... Related Stories Half-Frame (and … | Continue reading

Sorry things have been so quiet here for a while. I'll be back in the saddle tomorrow. Kind regards, Mike Related Stories Anyone Have Any Information About Howard Bond? New Morning (Blog Notes) Comments (Blog Notes) | Continue reading