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The Truth about Inflation

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Inflation is always and everywherea phenomenon of structural change. — Jonathan Nitzan Milton Friedman has been dead for more than a decade, but his ghost still haunts us. In the 1960s, Friedman declared that inflation is ‘always and everywhere a … Read more

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation

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Have you heard of the ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’? It’s the (apparent) tendency for unskilled people to overestimate their competence. Discovered in 1999 by psychologists Justin Kruger and David Dunning, the effect has since become famous. And you can see why. It’s … Read more