ECONOMY

Ian Smith’s memoir *Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal*

Yes he used to run Rhodesia, and yes it is costly to buy this book because no one wants to…

8 months ago

The Free Press is joining Paramount

Announcement here, congratulations! And from the WSJ.  And Katherine Boyle comments. The post The Free Press is joining Paramount appeared…

9 months ago

The ai Boom

The tiny country of Anguilla (pop 15,000) has an official country top-level domain code for the internet of .ai. Domain…

9 months ago

AI and the FDA

Dean Ball has an excellent survey of the AI landscape and policy that includes this: The speed of drug development…

9 months ago

My excellent Conversation with David Commins

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf are the topics, here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is the episode summary:…

9 months ago

Is it the phones?

Or perhaps we should just credit Sydney Sweeney?  That is from Chris Said. The post Is it the phones? appeared…

9 months ago

The British War on Slavery

In August of 1833 the British passed legislation abolishing slavery within the British Empire and putting more than 800,000 enslaved…

9 months ago

Housing 101

John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m)…

10 months ago

Moving on Up

James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods…

10 months ago

Resources for Teaching Tariffs

Trump has put tariffs on the economics agenda in a way that hasn’t been true for decades. As a new…

10 months ago