Marginal Revolution

tylercowen I am reading Bryan Caplan's manuscript on selfish reasons to have more children.

tylercowen Prime Minister of Grenada has sunburn, red stain on his shirt, dresses casual in public, talks about cultural diversity.

tylercowen They tell me that hardly anyone in Grenada does Shango anymore.

tylercowen "NHS patients losing out as life-saving drugs are sold abroad," http://tinyurl.com/yb8jsbl

tylercowen Chinese diplomat: “Resolutely adhering to one’s principled stance is not the same thing as being hardline,” http://tinyurl.com/yb8zsu3

tylercowen So far I'm willing to call Grenada underrated; they refer to channa as "doubles."

tylercowen Here's the link on the Pelosi comments: http://tinyurl.com/ykw4dcr; I guess we'll see on Wednesday. Down to 30, from 42, on Intrade.com.

tylercowen Why is only FoxNews reporting the story that Pelosi said Obama would introduce a mini-bill? The "repudiation" hardly seems convincing.

tylercowen We're all waiting for @bencasnocha to write the post on how witnessing the earthquake, and reactions, has changed *him*.

tylercowen To walk out of a movie right before the very end is the ultimate expression of freedom. *Big River* is a clunker, by the way.

tylercowen I still miss Tower Records; you could go there at 9:13 a.m. on a Sunday.

tylercowen What percentage of the problems of banking reform would be solved if Citigroup simply did not exist?

tylercowen Robin Hanson, Tyler Cowen, Michael Makowsky, and some lady from the Provost's office all arrived independently at China Star tonight.

tylercowen Andrew Sullivan: "Journalists are at their best when exposing power rather than defending it." http://tinyurl.com/yzsd2fx

tylercowen How so? I dropped *Hunger* at the mailbox at 5 p.m. yesterday, and Netflix has it at 3:48 a.m. this morning.

tylercowen My prurient question: what percentage of these figure skating pairs have in fact slept together?

tylercowen "...training with computers can cow even the wildest imagination." http://tinyurl.com/yzdhmxe

tylercowen I still think Thomas Bernhard is one of the best writers of his century. Relentless.

tylercowen "For a robot, it would be easier to write novels than to read them." http://tinyurl.com/ykfll7w

tylercowen Garett Jones podcast on Twitter and macroeconomics, correct link: http://tinyurl.com/ygdu3sq

tylercowen Garett Jones podcast on Twitter and macroeconomics, http://tinyurl.com/ygdu3sq.

tylercowen Is there *any* good reason for bicameral legislatures at the state level?

tylercowen Haiti: they used to call it "The Republic of Port-au-Prince."

tylercowen Arab-Andalusian flamenco is perhaps the best flamenco of all; micro-tonal dissonance produces great force.

tylercowen Oops -- that Wilde quotation is from *The Decay of Lying*, not De Profundis.