Favorite Rejects 2022-03-29

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It remains funny to me that the yield curve predicted the pandemic.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Rare citing of a Gettier Case in the wild.

NBER @nberpubs

An up-front, unconditional offer of free college is more effective at increasing application and enrollment than one requiring verification of financial need, from @ecburland, @dynarski, @michelmorek, @steph_r_owen, and @Shwetha144 nber.org/papers/w29864

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler

Still colluding.

Eric Topol @EricTopol

Today is the lowest number of US Covid hospitalizations since the pandemic started👋 A reason to celebrate, even if it's brief. newsnodes.com/us

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The people mad at Shor don’t actually remember what they’re mad about* and so they make up new stuff every week to attribute to him. (* he said, rightly, that rioting helps Republicans electorally)

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

Rare Boomer W

the aorist screeve (dr. seuss character) @Theophite

what if he brilliantly imploded his own economy in order to secure an additional reserve of the bulk commodity which his only possible trading partner is doing everything possible to make valueless

Avik Roy 🇺🇦 @Avik

What if Putin didn’t miscalculate? The territory he's gained from Ukraine comprises Europe's second largest known reserves of natural gas, after Norway's. Great piece by Bret Stephens @nytopinion. https://t.co/rnI8j3SESf

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Michael Brendan Dougherty @michaelbd

Are people really going with this line? Russia has lost and so will have to settle for obtaining the fake war aims it announced, rather than the real ones we know, via private revelation, that they truly sought.