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Sunday assorted links

1. Josefina Aguilar Alcantara, RIP (NYT). 2. Move abroad so you can default on your student debt (NYT). 3. History

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Nowcast, Tracking of Private Domestic Final Demand (aka “core GDP”)

From Atlanta Fed and Goldman Sachs, today: Figure 1: Final sales to private domestic purchasers (bold black), 2023-24 stochastic trend

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Guest Contribution: “Oil Shocks Raise Recession Odds and Inflation Risks”

Today we are fortunate to be able to present a guest contribution written by Rashad Ahmed (Andersen Institute for Finance and Economics).

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Marginal Garfield

Marginal Garfield generates an original Garfield cartoon every day based on posts from Marginal Revolution! Here is the first strip.

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Physician Incomes and the Extreme Shortage of High IQ Workers

Physician incomes are extraordinarily high in the United States. A new NBER paper finds that U.S. physicians earn roughly two

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South African safari photo by Holly Cowen

The post South African safari photo by Holly Cowen appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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The Five Year Inflation Breakeven at 2.66%

Up 0.26 ppts since the war’s beginning. Using Treasury and TIPS: Figure 1: 5 year Treasury-TIPS spread (blue), expected 5

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Jürgen Habermas, RIP

Here is one obituary.  My favorite book of his was The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a

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I talk with Larry Kotlikoff

Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use

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Monday assorted links

1. What people get wrong about women’s rights (Alice Evans, The Economist). 2. The case against liberal interventionism. 3. More