~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (93)
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Pacific Heights: A Movie Ahead of Its Time - Marginal REVOLUTION
Pacific Heights is a 1990 movie starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, and Matthew Modine. Conventionally described...
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My excellent Conversation with Marilynne Robinson - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Marilynne Robinson is one...
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China fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
The growth of China’s agricultural subsidies is incredible: now at $300bn per year, according to the...
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The El Salvador tax reform - Marginal REVOLUTION
El Salvador’s Congress approved on Tuesday a reform to remove income taxes previously imposed on money...
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Marc Andreessen and I talk AI at an a16z American Dynamism event - Marginal REVOLUTION
a16z has issued the talks from that event, and we are issuing it too, as a...
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DEI vs. the Chips Act - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Hill has a good op-ed by Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson on how labor and...
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The new UAPs report - Marginal REVOLUTION
You will find it here, 45 pp. of text plus lots of footnotes. Overall it is...
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Small countries, big firms - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: From both a...
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We need YIMBY for the U.S. power grid - Marginal REVOLUTION
The amount of new transmission line installed in the United States has dropped sharply since 2013, when...
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My excellent Conversation with Marc Rowan - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the video, audio, and transcript, taped in his Apollo office in NYC. Here is...
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Public Choice Outreach 2024! - Marginal REVOLUTION
Please apply and send your students to the 2024 Public Choice Outreach Conference! The conference is...
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Tide turning in Washington State? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From an MR reader: Good story here about one man in Washington state fighting the battle...
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A pessimistic account of the Milei reforms - Marginal REVOLUTION
Eduardo Costantini, a billionaire property developer, supports Milei’s plans but describes his handling of Congress as...
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The Ability to Concentrate is Increasing?! - Marginal REVOLUTION
Distraction is everywhere. As I write this post, I pause to check twitter. Phones are omnipresent...
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Is Bidenomics working? - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is too soon to say, as I express in my 2x the usual length Bloomberg...
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Kind of like the NBA All-Star game - Marginal REVOLUTION
BREAKING: Queen Camilla is taking a break from public duties for some "downtime", which means that...
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Canada fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
*NEW* Canada's GDP grew by 1.1% between the 4th quarter of 2022 and 2023, while its...
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Solve for the equilibrium? - Marginal REVOLUTION
At $US15,000, BYD’s new Qin EV is already being touted as a “Corolla killer”, as the...
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What should I ask Fareed Zakaria? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is Fareed’s home page, here is Wikipedia: Fareed Rafiq Zakaria…is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and...
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Claims about Iran (from the comments) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’ve chatted with a lot of Iranians online in the past few years (they’re in Iran)....
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Why don't nations buy and sell territory more? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Egypt has agreed to a $35bn deal with the United Arab Emirates to develop the town of Ras el-Hekma...
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Dwarkesh Patel with Patrick Collison - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is my episode with @patrickc We discuss: – what it takes to process $1 trillion/year–...
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Israel facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
GDP declined by an annualised 19.4 per cent compared with the third quarter. On a pure...
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Equatorial Guinea facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
After the discovery of oil in the mid-1990s, per capita income soared and catapulted the country...