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The Great Spanish Estancamiento (from my email)

I’ve read an interesting article over at “El Pais” on the Spanish stagnation ( https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2023-10-10/por-que-no-...

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column , here is one excerpt: As for the students themselves, recent research indicates that sp...

Mongo IFTTT 16 October 2023

A new HBO documentary film premieres about a restaurateur who is also an artist. A couple of scary movies will get you into the Halloween sp...

John Oliver pointed out that Republicans are in the state that they are in because they spent years not keeping their extremists in check, a...

John Oliver pointed out that Republicans are in the state that they are in because they spent years not keeping their extremists in check, a...

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm sharing a conversation I had back in August with the gentlemen from The Sounding Board Podcas...

Using four cross-sectional data files for the United States and Europe we show that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) have a significant ...