#TylerCowen adds: "Here is the full NYT story, noting that account holders did not receive (significant) gains in the value of bitcoin that otherwise would have accrued."
"Change is by no means linear. You may find my findings surprising, perhaps even shocking. Egypt actually transitioned from equality to inequality not once, but twice."
"Sen̓áḵw, an 11-tower development that will Tetrize 6,000 apartments onto just over 10 acres of land in the heart of the city. Once complete, this will be the densest neighbourhood in Canada, providing thousands of homes for Vancouverites who have long been squeezed between the country’s priciest real estate and some of its lowest vacancy rates."
"Just about the worst calamity that can befall a human is to lose a child, and historically, almost half of children worldwide died before they reached the age of 15. That share has declined steadily since the 19th century, and the United Nations Population Division projects that in 2023 a record low was reached in global child mortality, with just 3.6 percent of newborns dying by the age of 5."
Surprise! The study of the Florida school choice programme reports positive effects on the pre-existing public schools.
(Maybe vouchers and school choice are the sort of policy wherein people see only what they expect to see: bad results for those anticipating bad, good results for those anticipating good.)
"The deepest insight for understanding the lenses people use to understand the world comes from Arnold Kling in his superb, concise book, The Three Languages of Politics. Simple idea. Liberals see the world as a struggle between oppressor and oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and barbarism. Libertarians see the world as a struggle between government coercion and personal liberty."
"The siren soon stopped its nagging, whining cry and we returned home. I went to services. A friend there told me a terrible rumor. That we had been attacked by Hamas from Gaza and that five people had been kidnapped. Israel has a bad history of kidnappings by its enemies. Google “Gilad Shalit” and you will learn that Israel goes crazy when a single soldier is a captive. Five people? We both shuddered."