# merchant marine (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover merchant marine. Page: Feed: --- ## [Intellectual Squatting](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/22/intellectual-squatting/) _2026-08-22 · mdmakowsky · Economist Writing Every Day_ So a professor at a major institution wrote 200 papers last year. Unlike other commenters I’ve observed so fare, I think this is neither true research nor pure AI fraud. It is likely AI slop to varying degrees, but like… Continue reading → ## [Problems with Price Stability](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/21/problems-with-price-stability/) _2026-08-21 · Zachary Bartsch · Economist Writing Every Day_ Holding prices constant places the onus on the quantity of output transacted to do the equilibrating. At a macro level, this means deeper declines in output and employment in exchange for stable consumer prices. … Continue reading → ## [Getting Music On Streaming Is Surprisingly Easy](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/20/getting-music-on-streaming-is-surprisingly-easy/) _2026-08-20 · James Bailey · Economist Writing Every Day_ Before recording and broadcasting technologies, there was no way for people all over the world to hear the same music performance- you had to be in the same room as the performer. Even when I was growing up, distributing your… Continue reading → ## [Welcome Back to School: Potential College Students are Now Declining](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/19/welcome-back-to-school-potential-college-students-are-now-declining/) _2026-08-19 · Jeremy Horpedahl · Economist Writing Every Day_ If you have spent any time around higher education lately, you have probably heard of the “demographic cliff” or “enrollment cliff” for years now. Well, it’s finally here. In terms of total number of births, the US peaked in 2007… Continue reading → ## [WWII Strategic Initiatives 6. Fort Commander’s Lonely Decision Saves Norwegian Government from Capture by Germans](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/18/wwii-strategic-initiatives-6-fort-commanders-lonely-decision-saves-norwegian-government-from-capture-by-invading-germans/) _2026-08-18 · Scott Buchanan · Economist Writing Every Day_ At 4:21 a.m. on April 9, 1940, a 64-year-old Norwegian colonel six months from retirement had about ninety seconds to decide whether to start a war. Birger Eriksen, who entered Norwegian military service way back in 1893, commanded Oscarsborg, a… Continue reading → ## [First Derivatives](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/17/first-derivatives/) _2026-08-17 · mdmakowsky · Economist Writing Every Day_ Lebron James is obsessed with golf. His new YouTube channel is what is getting the most attention, but this has been a publicly known fact for a while. There’s even a (largely unevidenced) theory that he chose to play his… Continue reading → ## [Predicting Social Media from 1997](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/15/predicting-social-media-from-1997/) _2026-08-15 · Joy Buchanan · Economist Writing Every Day_ At a rummage sale, I picked up a book by cartoonist Scott Adams called The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century published in 1997. I thought I might find a clever prediction about the future, which we Continue reading ## [High Income Rentals are Low Income Rentals](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/14/high-income-rentals-are-low-income-rentals/) _2026-08-14 · Zachary Bartsch · Economist Writing Every Day_ In my mind, the distinct income quartiles rent properties at very different price points, with maybe just a small amount of overlap. But the overlap illustrated here is huge. That’s a narrative violation for me. Continue reading ## [Bubble Worries Mean Diversify…. But How?](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/13/bubble-worries-mean-diversify-but-how/) _2026-08-13 · James Bailey · Economist Writing Every Day_ Mike is concerned that US stocks could be a bubble, as are many others: if we take parallels to the past seriously, there arises the question of whether a 40 year old with a 100% index fund portfolio should consider Continue reading ## [Everything At the Grocery Store is On Sale Relative to 1980](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/12/everything-at-the-grocery-store-is-on-sale-relative-to-1980/) _2026-08-12 · Jeremy Horpedahl · Economist Writing Every Day_ Back in May 2024, I wrote about grocery prices in 2024 compared to 1980. Relative to average wage increases, almost everything was more affordable the one exception was bacon. Grocery prices have continued to climb since 2024, but so Continue reading ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/C311DujrDDNS) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Boy Wonder Leopold Aschenbrenner Blows Up His $45 Billion Situational Awareness Hedge Fund](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/11/boy-wonder-leopold-aschenbrenner-blows-up-his-45-billion-situational-awareness-hedge-fund/) _2026-08-11 · Scott Buchanan · Economist Writing Every Day_ Leopold Aschenbrenner is a very bright guy. Born in Germany to physician parents, he skipped enough grades to graduate from high school at age 15, allowing him to enroll at Columbia University in 2017 at that same age. He went on to Continue reading ## [Bubbly](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/10/bubbly/) _2026-08-10 · mdmakowsky · Economist Writing Every Day_ At what point does the advice to invest in an index fund and forget about it until you retire become insufficient advice? Because I m not a financial planner. I m not even an active investor. I m an economist who follows the Continue reading ## [Joy on Severance and Wild Problems](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/08/joy-on-severance-and-wild-problems/) _2026-08-08 · Joy Buchanan · Economist Writing Every Day_ For EconLog, I wrote a reflective piece on Season 2 of Severance and how it relates to the book Wild Problems by Russ Roberts. You Cannot Outsource Life: Severance and Wild Problems (EconLog link) The essay is about pain and Continue reading ## [Announcing the Disability Records Project](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/07/announcing-the-disability-records-project/) _2026-08-07 · Zachary Bartsch · Economist Writing Every Day_ I created a non-install windows computer application that lets people identify disabled people on those digital census rolls. If you have students who would benefit from this research experience, then do please let me know! I can approve your institution’s email domain and we can get started. Continue reading ## [CBO Wants Your Research](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/06/cbo-wants-your-research/) _2026-08-06 · James Bailey · Economist Writing Every Day_ The Congressional Budget Office released a series of posts explaining questions they have about major federal budget policies that past research does not adequately answer. For any economist looking for paper ideas or for a way to influence policy, CBO s Continue reading ## [Seven-Year Grocery Inflation is Running High](https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2026/08/05/seven-year-grocery-inflation-is-running-high/) _2026-08-05 · Jeremy Horpedahl · Economist Writing Every Day_ A recent poll tells us that 66 percent of Americans think groceries are unaffordable. Is this a reasonable position? Let s add some context. Figure 1 is one way to look at the problem. It shows the cumulative 7-year inflation rate Continue reading