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Did George III write this

Great story/charts from Lydia DePillis Christine Zhang on how health care ate the American economy. This pair of maps is especially striking.

Happy 249th birthday America, got the 1774 Taunton flag out, one of the earliest flags used in the American Revolution. Liberty and Union, then and now.

Fool’s Cap World Map, c1590

The Dallas suburb of Frisco had 6,000 residents in 1990. It has now surpassed 240,000, more than Richmond VA, Norfolk or Spokane. In five years, it is expected to surpass 340,000, more than today live in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Newark, St Paul, St Louis and Buffalo.

Em direto de Londres na RTP1 com o Ministro e a Ex-Ministra debati a minha fórmula para combater a pobreza e desigualdade e tornar 🇵🇹 um dos melhores sistemas de ensino do mundo: 1. Professores 2. Creches, sobretudo para os mais pobres 3. Tecnologia e Inteligência Artificial

New NBER: "Why Is Fertility So Low in High Income Countries?" nber.org/papers/w33989#…

Evidência causal de uma hipótese que eu sempre defendi: tamanho do mercado mediático afecta decisão de dobrar vs. legendar, o que por sua vez tem impacto na aprendizagem da língua inglesa pelos + novos. Por isso é que se fala relativa/ bem inglês em PT, mas com gap geracional

This is terrible and hilarious: authors included hidden prompts in manuscript pdfs that instructed LLMs to generate positive reviews. Another sign we're heading for a garbage future where all textual content is generated *and* read by AI.

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Diferenca interessante entre PT, ES, IT, paises que tendem a ter indicadores sociais/culturais/economicos semelhantes.

Urban economists used to think that the economy of Cambridge, Massachussetts would collapse because the candy manufacturers all moved production overseas but, surprsing literally nobody, having the two best universities on Earth meant that they could sustain a productive economy

pretty cool

Fim de impostos de transaccao sobre habitacao beneficiam geracoes + jovens, pois incentivam os + velhos a mudar-se c/ + frequencia. Problema frequente sao as familias + velhas (que sao + pequenas_ ficarem "trancadas" em casas maiores. Devia ser implementado em Portugal ASAP.

Acabadinho de chegar da Nova Jérsia, mesmo a tempo do churrasco de domingo

It would be stronger if they provided any numbers to back up their case that the government allocating capital has worked. What was the IRR on all this government investment in China? Seems to me like we're cherry picking ex post. Just one well-known counterexample: China has 60

The "great retirement boom" triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have ended as macroeconomic and public health conditions normalized in the U.S. stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy…

Headline CPI at 0.29% MM, Core CPI at 0.23% MM, roughly in line with expectations. The impact of tariffs is becoming more salient. Apparel, which had seen cool inflation the last 2 months, grew 0.4% in June. Household furnishings grew 1%. Video & audio electronics grew 1.1%.