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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 reprint it, for obvious reasons. 

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Big Data on Trump’s War on Consumers

From Alberto Cavallo in the Harvard Gazette: See the interactive in the article. More on Cavallo et al. in this post. Source link

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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 name registrations have surged from

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Business Cycle Implications from the ADP Release

My nowcast of BLS private nonfarm payroll employment was for a decreaes of 78K, but with a very wide prediction interval. This is an aggregate

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White House Pulls EJ Antoni Nomination to BLS Chief

From The Hill: Source: Times of Israel. The White House is withdrawing the nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of

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What Exactly Happened to the Dollar around “Liberation Day”: Illiquidity vs. No-Confidence

Some people argue the concurrent dollar decline and Treasury yield incrase was attributable to liquidity issues as repicing occurred against a backdrop of a rising

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AI and the FDA

Dean Ball has an excellent survey of the AI landscape and policy that includes this: The speed of drug development will increase within a few

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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Flier on RFK Jr

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

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Is it the phones?

Or perhaps we should just credit Sydney Sweeney?  That is from Chris Said. The post Is it the phones? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source

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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Dear Committee Members

Like many who spend their lives in the ivory tower, I enjoy academic satires. That includes Richard Russo’s novel Straight Man, the movie Wonder Boys,