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D’accord !

That is from the French embassy in the UK. The post D’accord ! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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WSJ July Survey: 2025 q4/q4 Growth at 1%

From WSJ July survey out today: Figure 1: GDP (bold black), WSJ July survey mean (tan), lowest/highest 10% based on

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Technology Transfer and Development Economics

Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less

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Trump Accounts are a Big Deal

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant

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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Today I Learned

About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

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Amazon’s Robotic Revolution

Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages

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Privatize Federal Land!

I’ve long advocated selling off some federal land—an idea that reliably causes mass fainting spells among the enlightened. How could

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Flying on Frying Oil

The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers

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GDP Nowcasts as of 6/20

NY Fed, St. Louis Fed, GS tracking: Figure 1: GDP as reported (black), May Survey of Professional Forecasters (tan), GDPNow

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Of Course We Should Privatize Some Federal Land (but probably won’t)

The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada,