Assorted Links for Thursday
- Global Trade Imbalances: An IMF Perspective
- What trees are most common in your city? And are they at risk? (WP)
- A Megamerger Creates America's First Coast-to-Coast Rail Operator (WSJ)
- He Helped Build Up Barry Sanders. Now He's College Football's First $1 Million Strength Coach. (WSJ)
- Notes on Spite
- The US exorbitant privilege is failing
- The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops
- Tax the tourists - Maine edition
- Inflation has improved in Argentina. Why consumers don't feel a difference. (CSM)
- Americans Are Snapping Up London Mansions Like Never Before (WSJ)
- Turchin vs. Zeihan on China
- The 'other' Michelin award travellers should know
- Who Are Hollywood's Greatest Character Actors? A Statistical Analysis of Iconic "That Guy" Performers
- Some Problems With GDP
- A century ago, around half of today's independent countries were European colonies
- IMF Corrects Growth Forecast Upwards
- ACM's Transition to Full Open Access
- Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans
- [Outliers] Katharine Graham: The Washington Post
- Scholars just solved a 130-year literary mystery - and it all hinged on one word