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Nano Banana Pro does Marginal Revolution

Via Rohit Krishnan. The post Nano Banana Pro does Marginal Revolution appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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I talk with Michael Klein

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

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The Trump Agenda and the Housing Stock

Think deportations and construction labor force (not housing demand), and tariffs and construction costs. On the first

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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

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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

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Sentences to ponder

We find that interventions (e.g., busing) that move children to a more favorable neighborhood have large effects but lose impact

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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

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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

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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