Holiday links

Closing my tabs for 2024

Here are your holiday links so I can close my browser tabs for 2024. The links section of the newsletter usually sits below the paywall for the benefit of paid subscribers. To continue receiving these in 2025, be sure to take advantage of my semi-annual sale: 20% off a paid subscription forever. Offer ends on 1 January.

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• The ironies of Trump’s tantrums about the dollar.

• China’s securities regulator reminds economists that spreading inappropriate views will get you fired.

• A User’s Guide to Building a Subculture.

• How Bidenomics failed. Or succeeded despite itself.

• Modeling inflation dynamics with a model that doesn't look like a model.

• Nowcasting made easy. Code here.

• No loss of business dynamism in the US.

• Republican Congress shuts down US government counter-disinformation agency.

• Nice piece from Philip Coggan on what is at stake for investors at this juncture.

• The American Mortgage in Historical and International Context.

• The Superiority of the Consumer Welfare Standard.

• How is one answer to our think tank anaemia “more government”?

• Twitter Vs Bluesky And The Psephosphere.

• Policy Without Policymaking: Australia’s New Digital Competition Regime Is Primarily Designed to Get Through Parliament.

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