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This is mostly a podcast about Benjamin Britten, and in particular his War Requiem, with Rebecca Lowe (former singer and conductor, in addition to philosopher and also her current role at Mercatus). Here is the YouTube, here is the transcript and further listening links. Excerpt
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That is the theme of my latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: Principle five: Run experiments. This is a more general version of the healthcare point. AI will generate so many new ideas and hypotheses, including for drugs and medical devices, but not only. Become a teste
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1. As meat prices rise, the economics of Texas barbecue. 2. Economic historian Eric Jones has passed away. 3. Claims about the Pope and Claude. If true, further evidence for my Straussian hypothesis. 4. Koyama reviews Tyler Goodspeed on business cycles. 5. “Chinese battery manuf
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Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with him. Richard does have a new book coming out, Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster. While I liked the book (and blurbed it), I do not feel our conversation about the book would be that interesting — too much beating up on the stup
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Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Most of all, we cover Ptolemaic Egypt. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Toby cover how Alexander took over the empire almost without a fight, why Alexandria became the Manhattan of the ancient world, whether the era was as
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Russia has passed a law authorizing its central bank and other financial institutions to repel drone attacks with their own defense systems, as the country struggles to defend against Ukrainian strikes. The law, passed by Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday, will allow
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1. “Robinhood launched agentic trading and an agentic credit card today that will allow AI agents to trade equities and make credit card purchases on customers’ behalf.” With cash back, of course. 2. Cultural Tutor and beauty. 3. Why has Napoleon so rarely been captured well on
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Quality-adjusted AI production in the United States grew at over 2,000 percent per year in 2024 and 2025, driven by three compounding forces: expanding data-center capacity, hardware efficiency gains, and—the largest of the three—algorithmic progress. Treating the AI sector as a
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It may seem like a distant memory now, but as of the mid-2000s, U.S. natural gas production had been flat for a decade, and the U.S. was importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), with plans to import much more. Then shale gas happened. Advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal
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We document a new source of fluctuations in inflation inequality. When the cost of upstream inputs rises, varieties within a product category tend to have similar absolute price increases. However, the same absolute price increase constitutes a larger percentage change for low-pr