- November 12, 2025
UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills
The UC San Diego Senate Report on Admissions documents a sharp decline in students’ math and reading skills—a warning that
Affordability sentences to ponder
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Creative Stagnation
Credit: Todd Lappin This is insane: Legislation requiring cars and trucks, including electric vehicles, to have AM radios easily cleared
Sentences to ponder
We find that interventions (e.g., busing) that move children to a more favorable neighborhood have large effects but lose impact
Non-Federal Statistic of the Day: Recession Predictor?
We would’ve gotten Q3 advance GDP yesterday, and September personal income and outlays today, ordinarily. What indicators do we have
States with Negative GDP, Employment Growth in 2025H1
Eleven states for GDP, ten for employment: Figure 1: Annualized GDP growth in 2025H1, calculated as log differences. Source: BEA
Prediction Markets Are Very Accurate
alexmccullough at Dune has a very good post on the accuracy of Polymarket prediction markets. First, how do we measure
Creative Destruction in a Nutshell
A good figure from the Nobel Prize Foundation’s Scientific Background to the Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt Nobel. The figure shows
Some Business Cycle Observables [updated]
Tomorrow, we’ll get another piece of business cycle information, in the form of industrial production, manufacturing production,
Democracy and Capitalism are Mutually Reinforcing
Many people argue that democracy is incompatible with capitalism but they differ on whether democracy will kill capitalism or whether