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At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#29)

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Winter is turning into an early spring, with a little helpful push from global warming. The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and it’s a great time to be outdoors enjoying the crisp cool air. But you know what’s even better than touching grass? Reading economics blogs, of course! This week I have only one podcast for you — an episode of Econ 102, where Erik Torenberg and I discuss the curiously persistent delusion among Westerners that Russia represents some sort of attractive or functional alternative to Western civilization: Anyway, on to our list of interesting things. Today’s theme is “pushback against negative stories and trends”. It’s important to remember that things in the economy are rarely as dire as the pundits would have you believe (unless we’re talking about Europe’s ability to defend itself, in which case things are probably more dire). Last week I wrote a gigantic 7000-word review of Power and Progress, a book that claims that AI is going to automate away the mi

Winter is turning into an early spring, with a little helpful push from global warming. The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and it’s a great time to be outdoors enjoying the crisp cool air. But you know what’s even better than touching grass? Reading economics blogs, of course! This week I have only one podcast for you — an episode of Econ 102, where Erik Torenberg and I discuss the curiously persistent delusion among Westerners that Russia represents some sort of attractive or functional alternative to Western civilization: Anyway, on to our list of interesting things. Today’s…

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