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April 29, 2022
It’s incredible how much there is to catch up on after just two weeks away. We went away over Easter to the wilds of Northumberland, where my son spent hours tramping around the forest, pointing out birds (ornithology clearly runs in the family) and demonstrating the bravery—or bad judgement, if you...
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April 08, 2022
I thought this VoxDev write-up of Julia Fonseca and Adrien Matray’s new paper on the effect of the extension of banking services to under-served areas in Brazil was superb. It’s structured wonderfully: they show the overall impact of the programme, provide evidence on why it works the way it does, a...
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March 11, 2022
The news is just unrelentingly grim, isn’t it? One of the worst things about the social media world is how hard it is to escape as well; once you’ve read the news and whatever analyses you trust and just want to scroll through Jeffrey Woolridge dropping bombs on economics twitter, or Racha...
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March 04, 2022
What is up with Q1 2022? Did somebody spill it’s drink? Why does it hate us so? Not content with the onset of a horrific—indeed, increasingly horrific—war of Aggression in Eastern Europe, it took Mark Lanegan last week and this week has taken Shane Warne, one of the two the most charismati...
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February 25, 2022
How can I start with anything other than the absolute horror unfolding in Ukraine at the moment? We went from watching Big Jet TV to an actual ground invasion in the space of a week, and I much, much preferred last week’s viewing. I have no special knowledge or insight into the situation (save...
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February 18, 2022
Hi all, There’s a massive storm raging outside, with a name like Bertie Wooster’s long-lost Aunt: Eunice. Eunice has done some damage: a church spire fell off, the Millennium Dome has had its covering ripped off like Hulk Hogan’s vest, and the sent the sheep to find shelter....
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February 11, 2022
The only deadlines I love are trade deadlines, and NBA trade deadlines above all. The stories that emerge are truly wild: players being barricaded into their homes and begged to sign contract extensions while a team owner is literally driving around his neighbourhood trying to find his hou...
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February 04, 2022
First of all—a quick apology if today’s links are truncated: in the latest example of my capacity to make my tech work against me, I left my computer power cable at the office after working there this morning, leaving me with a rapidly dying laptop and trying to get these links out before ...