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January 27, 2023
You’ll have to forgive me if the introduction to the links seems a bit distracted: England are in the final stages of an absolute thriller against South Africa in a one-day international, with Jofra Archer easing back into international cricket by being absolutely carted for 81 runs in his ten overs...
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January 20, 2023
We (as in my family, not CGD) are in the process of moving into a new home, which involves a great deal of choice: choosing paint colours, tiles, locations for various bits of furniture. It’s normal in economics to consider more choice to be a good thing, but this assumes that we’re able to optimise...
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January 13, 2023
We’re two weeks into the new year now, which is plenty of time for us to have broken resolutions (email at weird hours for me), to feel like we’ve been hit by a tidal wave of work (some time around January 5) and to be totally exhausted (January 1 by around 5pm, but then, I’ve got a toddler running...
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December 16, 2022
As we approach the year’s end, the Links are going on a hiatus, until the first or second week of January—I’m heading up to Northumberland next week to have a Christmas in the wilds, with grandparent-childcare, vast amounts of wine and port and several books to take advantage of the familial support...
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December 09, 2022
The eagle-eyed among you will notice something different about this week’s links. No, it’s not the novelty socks I’m wearing (I hope those aren’t visible); it’s the fact that the email has now moved to an online platform, as part of my efforts to keep onside of GDPR laws.
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December 02, 2022
If this week’s links seem a little threadbare, you can blame the pestilence that has been sweeping through my household the last couple of weeks (thankfully, pestilence is an exaggeration: no one’s dropped off entirely yet). I’ve been spared, but the reward I’ve won from my immune system (or more li...
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November 28, 2022
Happy belated Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it! We don’t have an equivalent celebration here in the UK—we’re much more likely to declare a public holiday for all the complaints we’d like to make, and to berate the people and institutions that have disappointed us, like Frank Costanza in Seinfeld...