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From this piece at TPM: Next, since there are no controlled experiments in recessions and depressions, there’s no really concrete and dispositive evidence about what policies end or don’t end severe economic downturns. Why don’t we change this? It seems like the easiest way to run a controlled experiment is to shape the stimulus by [...]

When I checked my email this morning, I found that someone had sent me a problem. I began working on it for about half an hour before I realized that I hadn’t even gotten my coffee yet. Then I realized the time management potential of leaving myself a problem every evening to solve or think [...]