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“He came, he saw, and he took - not once, as conquerors do, but perpetually, insatiably, even unto the futures of millions whose destinies he irrevocably altered.” A brilliant obituary by tyro 1914reader.com/p/sai-buhari?u…

$20 trillion in household deposits in Chinese banks 20,000,000,000,000 That’s the consequence of China’s former 1 child policy Money that has funded high investment at cheap interest rates and industrialised China - see The Time Travelling Economist

Effective today, I have resigned from the Advisory Board of UATX. While I believe very much in the importance of competition and innovation in higher education, and see major problems with the lack of diverse perspective in elite institutions, I am not comfortable with the course

The US Constitution expressly forbids export taxes but I guess this "payment" isn't a tax but a payout....🤔 U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China nytimes.com/2025/08/10/tec…

Historically, this fits rather well with the expected outcome of "progressive" rule 🙂

VOMO!

True coefficient might be about half the estimated coefficient. Not 1/100th, not incorrectly signed. Pretty good for the real world, glad to be an economist. So the real generalization should be "Empirical economics research is credible if you cut coefficients in half."

Once again, it is necessary to remind people that 92% of President Trump's first-term China tariff revenues, which were all paid by U.S. importers, went to bail out farmers hit by Chinese retaliation. There was virtually nothing left after that. cfr.org/blog/92-percen…

1. For any issue, there is a simple, elegant, and viral explanation that is also plain wrong. 😊 2. One such really elegant claim is that China has developed so efficiently because it has always been run by engineers. 3. In fact, I have heard some prominent individuals, as far

New Frontier Matters podcast episode with Bright Simons . The discussion is fascinating open.substack.com/pub/1914reader…

Dispelling the myth that contraceptives cause infertility increases uptake Last month on VoxDev, Natalie Bau UCLA, David Henning CSAE, Corinne Low The Wharton School & Bryce Steinberg Watson School at Brown discussed misperceptions around contraception in Zambia: voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

I had a great time chatting to Tobi Lawson & Feyi Fawehinmi on the Ideas Untrapped show. We talked about a wide range of subjects across innovation, political economy, & systems thinking. I know you're busy. I won't be pitching this if I didn't feel you'd like it. 😊

New post - What does the recent Economics Nobel Prize teach us about economic development? open.substack.com/pub/1914reader…

Ieri sera ho fatto un confronto con Jeffry Sachs e le sue strampalate teorie sulla Russia vittima di persecuzione degli europei. Gli ho posto un paio di domande a cui non ha saputo rispondere. Con la propaganda putiniana funziona sempre così: loro accusano l’Europa e l’Ucraina

IF You are seeing this, Read it slowly 3x, culled from Ideas Untrapped, a lecturer in UDU, Sokoto, detailing how Northwest NGR Governments at the time, betrayed internal corporation with neighboring countries by supplying information to terrorists, yes you heard that right

I highly encourage econ to not go down the road many parts of the sciences have gone down, being seen as political actors. People trust us on economic topics *because* we don't do things like this. (Also global individual level inequality has been falling straight for 35 yrs...)

Counterrevolutions eat their children too.

Bars didn’t start as temples of alcohol, they began as communal refreshment rooms where travellers and locals gathered for broth, grain drinks, tea, or coffee. The original purpose was social exchange, negotiation, storytelling, and rest, not intoxication. Share a coke….