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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

2 years 4 months ago
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is kallethen with a simple response to the question of whether a private platform’s right to enforce its rules would allow them to ban groups of people for discriminatory reasons: Did they violate the site’s rules? That’s the important distinction you keep missing. In second […]
Leigh Beadon

Novak Djokovic is the best men’s tennis player of all time

2 years 4 months ago
For 30 years Roy Emerson held tennis's record for men's Grand Slam titles at 12. His record seemed all but unbeatable until, finally, Pete Sampras broke it in 2000. But only barely: Sampras finished his career with 14 titles. Then, over the course of only 20 years, three players all broke Sampras's new record. By ...continue reading "Novak Djokovic is the best men’s tennis player of all time"
Kevin Drum

Rising wages have only a tiny impact on inflation

2 years 4 months ago
Conventional wisdom says that rising wages feed through into rising inflation. Thus, the only way to reduce inflation is to tighten monetary policy until wages start to decline. But a research letter from Adam Hale Shapiro of the San Francisco Fed casts some doubt on this: The estimates on both goods and housing services inflation ...continue reading "Rising wages have only a tiny impact on inflation"
Kevin Drum