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It lowers grades!

I always hated seeing red on my papers as a student.

That’s my twilight zone headline interpretation of Alex Tabarrock’s post here.

I love reading what he writes.

Interesting story :

I scored the publishing coup of the decade: his final book. And then I blew it.

Stephen Gordon has a toy model that works.

This commentary suggests that the Aussie economic resilience is attributable (in part) to strong population growth.

Very interesting. If there’s one thing that Scott Sumner (gets the h/t here, too) has taught me, it is that we focus too much on real per capita figures too much. Sure they’re the best measure of progress, but that means they’re great yardsticks for output from the economy; it doesn’t suggest that they’re very good as inputs from the feedback loop.

Inputs are nominal.

Seriously!

The answer?

“I feel empathy for him,” Roberts muses. “And that’s very similar to love, in my world. But I don’t necessarily need him to love me. I just accept it. It wasn’t like I was loved and then my parents took their love away from me. When I came to know them, they were unlovable.”

Weird stuff. Especially all the similar mannerisms (no, not killing and crazy stuff) manifesting before he even knew. If it’s true.

Good summary of the LHC breakthrough this week and what we’ll see in the future.

Ezra Klein reports (whose post rate forced me into submission a year ago or so – too much stuff!) h/t Tyler Cowen