🇳🇴 The recent wealth tax increase in Norway was expected to bring an additional $146M in yearly tax revenue. Instead, individuals worth $54B left the country, leading to a lost $594M in yearly wealth tax revenue. A net decrease of $448M+ ↓

New test for all my analysts coming

Half the education posts are like "my kid has a 5.3 GPA and invented $5 insulin and got rejected from DeVry" and half are "60% of freshmen do not know enough math to read the numbers on their classroom doors"

Keep in mind that the biggest recent experiment we have in rent control is that removing rent control increased supply and REDUCED prices. reason.com/2025/02/08/the…

More (largely political) reasons for fiscal restraint by schools across the country. 17% drop overall, but "[a]s the number of Chinese students in the US has declined, those from India have increased" ft.com/content/7a4860…

Alumni thing (but for football) #hookem Bobby Burton

My Alma mater has more GPUs than yours #hookem

Maybe the question I’m asking is wrong. Maybe it’s not… “Was the Buddha a socialist?” But rather, “Was the Buddha a ‘democratic socialist’?” 🤔🤔 That might sell more with the youngsters but then I miss out on the good old fashioned tankies.

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

I must say, as a scholar of Buddhism who now quasi works in finance, every time I see "AUM" I'm a bit startled.

.Donald J. Trump's Administration will try to tell you that Walmart's Thanksgiving basket is cheaper this year while conveniently leaving out the fact the the composition of that basket changes every year (and in this case, it got a LOT smaller!). My American Institute for Economic Research colleague,

This happened to my favorite game of all time, Warcraft 2, last year, and, needless to say, it was absolutely terrible. Buggy, zero support, worse than just playing on modded software from the 90s.

Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years. Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary

The rawdogging revolution is inching closer.

Working paper. Runs ~500k Chinese graduate dissertations through plagiarism-detection software, then links them to 60k successful civil-service recruits (and controls). Individuals with high plagiarism scores substantially more likely to enter government + advance faster.

Obesity rates showing sings of decline in the US, per Gallup:

Five ideas that would lower U.S. healthcare costs immediately: 1.Repeal Certificate of Need laws. They restrict supply, block competition, and protect incumbents. 2.Lift the ban on physician ownership in hospitals. When physicians compete, costs fall and quality rises.

We greatly exaggerate the risk of chaos that follows the dismantling of control. A lesson for everyone, especially incrementalist libertarians. #shocktherapy reason.com/2025/09/18/pol…

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