News & Musings
News & Musings
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Great pleasure to meet up the fantastic Opeth crew this morning in the Santiago de Chile SCL’s Skyteam Lounge! 🤘
Mikael Åkerfeldt told me they weren’t going back to Stockholm yet, but are on their way to Argentina! Pity we couldn’t join them this time, for their concert there…
Does President @realDonaldTrump control his administration?
New IRS commissioner this week, appointment revoked today.
Declaration of legal war against Harvard last weekend, labeled a mistake today.
Tariffs relaxed, all attributed to absence of one advisor.
Evil and incompetence…
A discussion with Larry Summers about the effects of tariffs and other US policies on the US and on Europe.
Larry’s place setter (15 minutes at the beginning) is a master class in showing the five fallacies underlying the US approach.
In mine (the next…
On our way!
It’s only because Trump says so many bizarre & wrong things every day that this is not immediately leading to impeachment, either for mental incompetence or treason. He’s repeating Russian propaganda everyone knows is false. There’s no deal or art here, just lies.
Better late than never, Harvard rises against Trump-era darkness:
Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson
www.thecrimson.com
World no. 1 @MagnusCarlsen receives his 🏆 and check for $200,000 after winning the 2025 Paris #FreestyleChess Grand Slam! @GMHikaru takes 🥈 & $140,000, while @FabianoCaruana is 🥉 with $100,000!
Who wins and loses from neighborhood change? We model consumption amenities as a market outcome where supply caters to the heterogenous tastes of local population. Our empirical application quantifies the distributional effects of mass tourism in Amsterdam.https://www.econometricsociety.org/publications/econometrica/forthcoming-papers/0000/00/00/Location-Sorting-and-Endogenous-Amenities-Evidence-from-Amsterdam/file/21394-3.pdf
