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October 2026
- Random Sample Vs Sobol Sequence
- Midterms: It’s The Economy
- What Will the GDP Report Say Tomorrow?
- Holmes Whistleblower Claims “You Can See Everything” Film Is Misleading
- Edward O. Thorp, The Professor Who Beat Vegas, Then Wall Street
- “You Can See Everything” and the Confidence Trap
- Aspen Trees in the Fall
- Disability: Income, Unemployment, & Education
- A Simple Way States Can Reduce Healthcare Spending
- Has Mexico’s “Canasta Básica” Policy Made Food More Affordable?
- WWII Strategic Initiatives 7. The Man Who Built the T-34 Tank That Helped Save Russia.
- The modal number of citations is zero (in political science)
- Paper Published on Persistent LLM Hallucinations
- Marriages By College Major
- Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and Premiums
- Wealth of Generations in 2025
- Making Swiss Cheese Is Not So Easy; Role of Copper Kettles
- Is AI Taking Our Jobs? Signal Boosting Noah Smith
- Degrees, Higher Degrees, & Higher Income
- Economic Freedom Is Enough
- “The Grim Old Days” in Charts
- A Slick Way to Detect AI Cheating
- Rules aren’t real until they are
- Prices as a Map for AI Agents
- Short-stuff
- Music Spending Is Smaller Share Of A Bigger Pie
September 2026
- Wealth of Generations: Update Through the First Half of 2026
- Some Ways for Investors to Hedge Against Higher Interest Rates
- Social norms are necessary but not sufficient
- Who owns model risk?
- Race & Sex & College Major
- Introducing the Certificate of Need Panel Database
- Are You Better Off Than You Were 22 Months Ago? Midterm Elections and Real Wage Growth
- “Whinging” or Merely Whining?
- Political discontinuities
- Internal Audit of AI Agents and Risk
- Iso-Standard Errors & Unemployment By Major
- The World Keeps Spinning Faster
- Family Income Continues to Grow in 2025 Data
- The Shifting Fortunes of Market Neutral Funds QMNNX and BDMCX
- US economic advantages, last 100 years
- Korea So Far
- Economics Major Income Premium
- New Health Freedom Index
- Women Have Always Worked, Often in the Formal Labor Force
- What If AI Earnings Fall Far Short of Expectations?
- There’s no non-partisan way to say this
- Temperature vs thinking level for LLM products
- College Major & Income Sources
- Ranking State Economies On a Governor Time Scale
- Median Family Income for Married Couples With Children Is Probably Higher Than You Think
- SPMO: One Momentum Stock Fund to Rule Them All
August 2026
- Academic administration
- Universal Basic Yosemite and the Parton Fertility Rate
- Income By Major (ACS 2024)
- Should Immigrant Doctors Have to Retrain?
- Nicholas Polson Has Written Over 200 Academic Papers in 2026 (so far)
- Bond Market Blows Off Treasury Bond Buyback; Gold and Bitcoin Soar
- Journal Crisis at Games and Economic Behavior
- Intellectual Squatting
- Getting Music On Streaming Is Surprisingly Easy
- Welcome Back to School: Potential College Students are Now Declining
- WWII Strategic Initiatives 6. Fort Commander’s Lonely Decision Saves Norwegian Government from Capture by Germans
- First Derivatives
- Predicting Social Media from 1997
- High Income Rentals are Low Income Rentals
- Bubble Worries Mean Diversify…. But How?
- Everything At the Grocery Store is On Sale Relative to 1980
- Boy Wonder Leopold Aschenbrenner Blows Up His $45 Billion Situational Awareness Hedge Fund
- Bubbly
- Joy on Severance and Wild Problems
- Announcing the Disability Records Project
- CBO Wants Your Research
- Seven-Year Grocery Inflation is Running High
- Warsh’s Low/No Guidance Approach at Fed Makes Market Participants Nervous – – Which May Be a Good Thing
- Service Industry Exodus and the ACA: Anecdata
- AI Innate Preferences Paper on Arxiv
July 2026
- So Many Prime Ministers
- The Academic Data Project That Turned Into $375 Million
- GDP Growth in the Second Quarter: Updated Forecasts
- What Is So Special About Object-Oriented Programming Languages Like C++ and Python?
- The Odyssey
- Top EWED Posts of 2026
- So Many Living Ex-Presidents
- Nimble Individuals, Enduring Institutions, and The Sean Lahman Baseball Database
- How to Escape the Productivity Slump
- Teamwork with “Tiki-Taka”: The Secret to Spain’s World Cup Successes
- The Genius Trap
- We Overrate Books
- Uncertainty Increases Profits?
- The Journal of Healthcare Finance Is Back
- Real Wage Growth Has Been Very Slow in the First Half of 2026
- How To Get Spare Car Fob Made Inexpensively (And Why It Is Wise to Do So)
- Every good is a bundle
- Fable on Legibility
- By the Numbers: Florida’s Property Tax Amendment (2026)
- Do NBA Teams Play Worse In Back-To-Back Games?
- Yes, Americans Probably Are About 46 (or Maybe 65) Times Richer Than in 1776
- Some Must-Knows for Dying Well
- Sport rivalries work best when the hate isn’t real
- Freddy and Tocquevillian Hope
- Fiscal Trends: USA’s 250th (And the Government’s 237th)
- Expressionism Is To Cameras As…. Caity Weaver?…. Is To Writing?
- Happy Birthday, USA
June 2026
- Life Among the Geeks: Impressions from an Amateur Radio (Ham) Field Day
- Rural Americans benefit the most from immigration
- Video on You Wouldn’t Steal a Car
- What the Fed Knew, and When
- Greenspan’s Unknown Ideal
- Would You Pay $4,000 for Filet Mignon and a Flight to London?
- Anyone Can Pull Funds from Your Bank Account Who Knows the Routing and Account Numbers
- You can learn economics in the most unexpected places.
- Reviews from Joy
- Consumer Debt Delinquency & Write-Offs
- Non-Alcoholic Beer is Good Now
- Berries Are Probably Not Making Parents Go Broke
- SpaceX: The. Biggest. IPO. Ever. Is. Ridiculous. Hype.
- The joy is in the noise
- Fast Food Was Solved Before Fast Fashion
- Relative Measures of Portfolio Performance
- Die With Something
- Consumer Prices in the US Took About 27 Years to Double
- WWII Key Initiatives 5: General Zhukov Helped Save USSR By Mastering The Pincers Counterattack
- Joy Explains how to integrate AI into a statistics class
- Quasi-Relative Measures of Portfolio Performance
- What Will End The AI Bull Market?
- The “Reality Index” of Price Inflation Isn’t Grounded in Reality
- Urban Homesteader Starts with Garden Beds and Chickens
- A thought on the SpaceX IPO
May 2026
- Would you steal a lemon?
- Absolute Measures of Portfolio Performance
- Read Grant’s Memoirs
- The US is Building a Lot More Data Centers Than Five Years Ago, But We Are Still Building More Warehouses
- Guide to Using Microsoft’s Free “Scan Document to PDF” PC App
- Tall poppies don’t get the calls
- Someone I Know is Taking Wegovy
- Breakfast Pudding
- The Welfare-Productivity Tradeoff in US-China Trade
- Fuel Costs Are Way Up, But It’s Still Pretty Affordable to Fill Up Your Tank (relative to wages)
- PhD Chemical Engineer Finds New Career Booty Hooping
- Economic history as it’s happening is alway relative
- arXiv will ban authors who submit papers with LLM mistakes
- Which Business Programs Require Economics?
- Welcome Tobias
- The Day the Cloud Evaporated: Life After the Data Center Collapse (A Guest Post by AI)
- Chipmaker Stock Prices Explode: The Latest Bubble?
- Will AI kill the research paper?
- The Empire Strikes Back against AI Cheating
- How do Income Tax Brackets Work?
- Most Published Research Findings Are Directionally Correct