ECONOMY
Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments
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- . December 22, 2025
Adam Lehodey writing at City Journal: In New York City, making a profit on real estate has become increasingly difficult.
Mysteries of the CPI Release
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- . December 19, 2025
Numerous commentators have noted anomalies in the latest CPI release. Smith/Bloomberg quotes “Lost in Translation,” according to TD Securities. “Delayed
Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Principles of Economics, 11e
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- . December 16, 2025
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
The Tech Labs initiative – Marginal REVOLUTION
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- . December 13, 2025
…the National Science Foundation’s Technology, Innovation and Partnerships directorate at long last announced its Tech Labs initiative, which is intended
Sunday assorted links
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- . December 10, 2025
1. The fight over Romansh (New Yorker). 2. How well can LLMs grade? 3. Kelsey Piper responds on Mississippi. She
Welcome to the Crazy CAFE
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- . December 7, 2025
To let Americans buy smaller cars, Trump had to weaken fuel-efficiency standards. Does that sound crazy? Small cars, of course,
Pharma supply is elastic
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- . December 4, 2025
The crux of the problem is that the IRA imposes price caps that shorten the effective life of a patent
Alles ist verloren…
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- . December 1, 2025
一切都結束了, 所有都失去咗 or whatever language you want to put it in. Bloomberg: “Trump Says He Has Made His Choice to
Clifford Winston: “Market Corrections Not Government Interventions”
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- . November 28, 2025
That’s the title of a new book (Palgrave MacMillan) by Clifford Winston, Senior Nonresident Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings.
Side-Walking Problems
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- . November 25, 2025
Local Law 11 requires owners of New York City’s 16,000-plus buildings over six stories to get a “close-up, hands-on” facade