The importance of transportation for productivity
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We quantify the aggregate, regional and sectoral impacts of transportation
productivity growth on the US economy over the period 1947-2017. Using a
multi...
A Possible Federal Role in Reducing State Red Tape
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The incoming Trump administration’s commitment to reduce extremely costly
regulatory burdens will feature the new Department of Government
Efficiency’s (...
RTO Gets Serious: October 1
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If ever a week was ripe for delaying your return to the office, it was
this one. Hurricane Idalia cleared out the weather up and down the coast,
brin...
Some Links
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(Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist
Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the
truth abou...
Only Physics Computes
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There are some famous “honeypot” topics that suck in many people, but where
few make any progress. I usually avoid them. But I was recently pulled into
dis...
IEA World Congress 2021
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A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World
Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in
a Fractured...
Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
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Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website,
although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who
use RSS sho...
How to Believe in Free Speech
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(June 12, 2018 02:56 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Almost all libertarians earnestly
say, "I believe in free speech." Normally, though, this goes way beyond
the ri...
Corporate ETFs and Risk Appetite
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Via Bloomberg : Bond ETFs Awash in Pain May Be Red Flag for Risk Appetite
(1) 2018-01-22 14:56:05.415 GMT By Dani Burger and Sid Verma (Bloomberg) —
U.S. c...
Adjust contrast of a pdf free
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Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite
literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are
saving. the proce...
Save pdf smaller size mac online
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High image quality, bring your ideas to life save pdf smaller size mac
online beautiful presentations. and instantly got the shrunken file!
Although the de...
The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
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The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
Bank of England Speeds Through Bond Buys
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Two weeks after buying its first corporate bond, the Bank of England has
already spent over 10% of the funds allocated to its 18 month asset-buying
program.
Wisconsin in Last Place for Start-up Activity
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The Kauffman Foundation has just released its report on startup activity.
Wisconsin comes in last place in startup density. Figure 1: Source:
Kauffman Foun...
The investment performance of REITs
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This graph shows the investment performance of real estate investment
trusts over the past decade. As you can see, they plunged during the
housing crash, b...
Should losers from free trade be compensated?
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It's been a while... far too long. Suffice to say that my day job has been
keeping me very busy this year and has made blogging difficult. I want to
rect...
The Times' Rorshach Geithner Story
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The New York Times has provided a handy blogging point for today in the
form of a long piece on the relationships Tim Geithner formed while head of
the N...
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