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AI Can’t Replace Free Markets by @Marian_L_Tupy and @PeterBoettke wsj.com/opinion/algori…

Strong rebuttal of AI pessimism noahpinion.blog/p/stop-pretend…

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The Morlok Quads charmed Depression-era America with song-and-dance performances. Then they were each diagnosed with schizophrenia. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/sci…

Michael Pettis, again in FT, ignoring how prices adjust. Pro-tip: Write down a model. Check your equilibrium conditions. 🧵 of what happens when you don't

for me, classical music is all about the little moments the little marches and waltzes of late Beethoven where you can feel the deaf master trying so hard to remember what music sounded like the moment toward the end of Sibelius 5 when the swan theme rises like the sun over a…

Whoopee! I get to talk to Tyler about how the US recovered from the Great Depression, and how the New Deal influenced that recovery. Come and listen! cato.org/events/false-d…

To those readers kindly asking about how to order my novel about Jane Austen & her seaside romance, here's the link: amazon.com/Six-Weeks-Sea-…

In the first episode of Bluechip Dialogues, sponsored by @bluechip_org, @tylercowen talks with me about the promise of stablecoins, why some frothy financial innovation is a part of a good system, and where @paulkrugman errs in his stablecoin views. Also at @spotify and @YouTube…

TIL that Jim Heckman, who is super critical of some of Raj Chetty's work, actually co-authored with Raj Chetty's father as recently as 2022 as part of a 51-year collaboration.

Last year was the largest one-year percentage point decline in murder ever recorded. This year is on track to do so again. In fact, nearly every category of crime is down sharply, with many at multi-decade lows or even the lowest per-capita rates ever recorded.

Most of all, as time passes, America is likely to gain relative to Europe: thefp.com/p/i-once-thoug…

No, cycling is much more dangerous than air travel and more dangerous than driving

In the past 2.5+ years I have seen vast improvement in AI models while NYT think pieces on these AI models have stayed exactly the same. Explain. The "overhearing" of students confessing to using ChatGPT to write their papers is the new Thomas Friedman talking to cab drivers.

Luzia’s new blog on fertility is great, in part because she knows where all the data is

The pace of progress in AI is both uneven and remarkable. A year ago, ChatGPT was having trouble counting the number of r's in strawberry. Our economy and society is not ready for what's coming.

I know people aren't going to believe this - but I just found $55 in cash on the ground right next to the Harvard Kennedy School (the most econ-flavored of the policy schools).

A suspicious preponderance of Irishmen

A newsletter to end the week: 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙒𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣. A roundup of a week where I lament the rise of fiscal dominance, defend the Fed's existence from a free-market perspective, talk about a new paper, and talk about a milestone on the…

The somewhat obvious implication of this is that Marketing to AIs will become a thing, kind of like how @tylercowen is writing for AIs