Thursday assorted links

Nov 21, 2024

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1. How good are American roads?

2. Civil War death toll higher than had been thought (NYT).

3. A Magritte sells for $460 million!

4. “The reason a minimum wage struggles to deliver efficiency gains is that with realistic firm productivity dispersion, a minimum wage that
eliminates monopsony power at one firm causes severe rationing at another.”

5. The size of the new BYD factory.

6. “COVID caused a lot of cardiac deaths that stopped rising and, indeed, started declining, once vaccines came into the picture.“

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