Information Equilibrium

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The littlest recession?
Latest employment situation data
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Jason Smith
July 2023
My eBooks are free this weekend
A Random Physicist (2017) and A Workers' History (2019) are free July 22nd and July 23rd
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Jason Smith
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May 2023
Ad hominem, for lack of a better word, is good
The logical fallacy is rational triage
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Jason Smith
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On Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945)
I think this paper is a libertarian touchstone because it doesn't get into a lot of specifics — which is always an issue for libertarianism.
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Jason Smith
April 2023
Employment situation: core unemployment rising
A couple of fluctuations have vanished, but unemployment without temporary layoffs rises beyond the level triggering a recession detection
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Jason Smith
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JOLTS and PCE inflation updates
A single data point potentially resolves a point of confusion
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Jason Smith
March 2023
Rent's Rule and Information Equilibrium
Another application of information equilibrium
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Jason Smith
Labor market update: 10 March 2023
JOLTS returning to equilibrium, unemployment still biased high
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Jason Smith
February 2023
Reference post: differential equations
Well, one differential equation
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Jason Smith
JOLTS Update 2023-02-01
Negative shock estimates seem to be converging on a relatively small shock ... or a return to the 2017 equilibrium? Plus, updates for unemployment.
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Jason Smith
January 2023
Polycrisis, complex systems and trust
There is something to the idea of a new kind of systemic failure — polycrisis — arising from complexity of human institutions.
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Jason Smith
Latest data telling the same story as last [insert unit of time]
Don't let that stop you from producing a new grand narrative, though.
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Jason Smith
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