Newmark's Door

You can't make stuff like this up.

Someone needs to end the Third World-like political chaos that’s descended on the state’s eighth-largest city.

"The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) collects and analyzes millions of syllabi to support educational research and novel teaching and learning applications."

The most frequently assigned title across "6,059,459 syllabi" is Strunk's Elements of Style. The most frequently assigned title in economics is Mankiw's principles text. (Mankiw's books are also #2 and #3 in economics.)

For what economists should do about Marx's high ranking in economics, see this interesting post by Professor David Tufte.

Southern states and the West Coast supposedly account for nine of the top ten.

Call me a cranky old codger--I am--but this strikes me as sad:

While people used to meet in primary or secondary school, that number has declined from about 27 percent in 1940 to 5 percent today. 

(But why is the National Science Foundation funding research into this?)

They can bring back people from death's door now. Just do more, and faster. We want more of this:

The facility may as well have been a small monument to Emily. Photographs of her plastered the walls: Emily at eight, in pigtails; Emily at nine, with a missing front tooth, smiling next to President Obama; Emily at ten, holding a plaque. At a certain point during the tour, I watched Emily look out the window to the hospital across the street. She could almost see into the corner picu room, where she had been confined for nearly a month. The rain came down in sheets. . . .

“Do you remember coming into the hospital?” I asked.

“No,” she said, looking out into the rain. “I only remember leaving.”

A reminder: There is no such thing a free lunch.

There's little point in trying to state something carefully when a full-out Liberal is listening. 

"The economic fallacies tackled here are the zero sum game, that order requires design, & that consumption is the key to growth."

As concluded by a "randomized controlled trial of ultra-processed food".

What do you bet the next randomized controlled study fails to confirm this?

Based on recent research led by Campbell Harvey (and others), a warning about portfolio rebalancing.