Friday, September 9, 2022

We're going to skip the crown entirely...

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You only have to be the tiniest bit Catholic to understand that modern problems require relitigating centuries-old political-religious cont...
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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Thursday Tweets

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Conventional wisdom assumed the midterms would be about Biden and Inflation. Trump and Abortion make for a very different battlefield. ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Ground source heat pumps are "the most energy-efficient, environmentally clean, and cost-effective space conditioning systems available," but maybe we can get journalists to talk about them anyway. [Repost]

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I'm joking but I'm not kidding.  If Elon Musk or some other Silicon Valley visionary proposed some laughable plan based on non-e...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

A concern about the Canadian Health Care system

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This is Joseph. A 2017 CMAJ article has been making the rounds on Twitter that has the headline result of: Medical assistance in dying coul...
Monday, September 5, 2022

It's Labor Day, so we're taking time off and running an excerpt from a recent Monkey Cage post

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Sociologists Jasmine Kerrissey and Judith Stepan-Norris, co-authors of “Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Struggle over the U.S. Labor Move...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Why read about Pauline Kael when you can read Pauline Kael?

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 Andrew Gelman has a post up on his blog discussing a new book by Louis Menand that includes the following quote: "Kael’s contention t...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Very smart post on causal inference

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This is Joseph. Andrew Gelman has a very nice piece on the challenges of causal inference over on his blog , looking at the discussion betwe...

Not doing things is a nonrival good (and while we're on the subject, can you have a nonrival good with a monopsony?)

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As mentioned before , Matt Levine has become on of the essential writers on the business and finance beat and I strongly recommend that ever...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Student loan forgiveness

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This is Joseph. Mark mentioned this briefly yesterday but I thought it was worth a full post.  In the United States there has been some con...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Tuesday Tweets and another reminder that Republicans were counting on an election about Biden and inflation, not about Trump and abortion

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Listing "inflation" and "cost of living" separately is a bit of a stretch, but at least it's better than "infla...
Monday, August 29, 2022

When it comes to conventional wisdom, always check the numbers

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Here's a quote from an otherwise pretty good CNN political analysis .[Emphasis added] The onus is on Demings to prove she -- or any Demo...
Friday, August 26, 2022

The essential Columbo

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Something lighter for the weekend. One of the consequences of the rise of streaming that everyone should have seen coming (but almost no one...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Return of the Petruchio liberal

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Incredibly weak. It's every bit the joke we expected. It will do virtually nothing for a large number of borrowers, will build very li...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

I shouldn't have to say this but a 49-25 poll is not good news for the 25 (and it gets worse)

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First off, the decision of the New York Times to even conduct a presidential poll more than two years before the election is irresponsible ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Our condiments don't explode is a pretty good sales slogan

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I always assumed concerns over preservative were a post-war thing. Lots of other things feel modern about this too, like the way companies u...