I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)

UK’s 20mph speed limits ‘are cutting car insurance costs’ Controversial safety policy has helped drive down premiums to 18-month low, says Confused.com

In the UK, auto insurance prices dropped 16% in a year.

A big reason: Lower urban speed limits

Industry analyst: "Areas where 20mph zones have been introduced result in lower levels of claim frequency – a key factor in the cost of car insurance."

I loved this episode. But on running the football I don't know how to square 'the best offences run the ball' with the fact that passing is so much more valuable. I thought Grubb in Seattle was hard done by - don't we want to throw the ball more?

obvious intention here to is signal to his groyper fans that he's ""based"", while being able to pretend that it's not *actually* what it looks like and so as to claim that anyone who says it is is some kind of liberal hysteric

International migrants are the largest source of international aid. This is an often underappreciated benefit of migration for global poverty reduction.

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To be fair, I'd also complain about this!

Isn't it just the tax that's different?

A one sentence summary could be: 'i wish more people liked the stuff I liked'. It has the veneer that this is something to do with streaming... But in the article they point out this is also exactly what Hollywood studios have done too (boring IP franchises).

I'm confused how you can think this is a good article. It's a standard snobby nostalgia, with many assertions and little evidence. "How dare big studios and streamers not fund higher quality less profitable content, if only we could go back to the halcyon 90s".

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There's a strange development happening in the #EconJobMarket this year: av. interview invites per job is *way* down on previous years. Anyone know what could explain this?

Want to solve heterogeneous-agent models with multiple endogenous state variables, say a multi-asset HANK model?

@soroushs.bsky.social and @patricksecon.bsky.social developed a much-improved finite-difference scheme for such problems: github.com/SSabet/Neste...

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Isn't he taking the job to line his son up with a future HC job?

I know blogs are uncool these days but would make a great post...

Ok this squares the circle in my head. Lots of time I think of allocative reforms as designed to align incentives to support technology adoption / FDI related knowledge transfer. But I see mileage in the argument that it might just be more realistic to push on the latter.

Are these as distinct as you make out? As an example, I like (though understand the contestability of) the narrative of 'how Asia works' - that links an allocative efficiency point (land reform) to a growth/PPF driver (structural transformation).

Ok, I think that's fair - and resonates with lots of the examples I was thinking of, thanks.

I'm surprised by this! Most of the time when I see an economic reform that (I think) will clearly benefit a country, someone with detailed country knowledge points to an "elite" who will clearly lose out and explains the policy is a complete non starter.

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