Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Damned if you do...
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Imagine that investigative journalists found that car manufacturers were earning really high margins on EVs and low-emission vehicles. The ...
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Afternoon roundup
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The tabs. There are too many. Dan Brunskill asks 20 economists how they'd define recession . A bunch of us pointed to how NBER does thin...
The price of meth
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ACT has proposed lifting the de-facto ban on the only cold medicine that seems to work - pseudoephedrine. It's about freaking time. Nati...
Thursday, 21 September 2023
The aristocracy of pull, so long as you're the aristocrat
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I hate election campaigns. I can never tell whether some bit of idiocy is actual proposed policy, or whether a candidate was just reaching i...
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Learning from others' discoveries
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Others' idiocy can be a public boon, if the example serves as sufficient cautionary tale. In a world of wishful thinking, if one countr...
Monday, 18 September 2023
Afternoon roundup
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The closing of a few tabs. Tim Harford's cautionary tale about the Sydney Opera House and how megaprojects bring heartbreak is a must-...
Thursday, 14 September 2023
Foreign buyer taxes
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The problem with taking GST off of food has little to do with the revenue cost of the policy, it's that it's just dumb to begin with...
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