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The IMF’s Flexible Credit Line

rare. If the country is experiencing exchange market pressure, ordinarily we would expect to see increased bond spreads. Moreover, exchange market pressure could be a reaction to domestic macroeconomic instability,…

Habit Formation

…in sugar-seeking mice. Though rare, this cell exerts its control through a web of connections to more populous cells that are known to drive habitual behavior. From earlier research by…

A Serious Misreading of Coase

…that absorb immense effort in negotiation and enforcement, should be rare. Only a failure of competition, due for instance to barriers thrown up by a regime of intellectual property rights,…

Dinesh Denial

…actually accepts English criticism (but not the yiddish insult). This is a rare event on Twitter. Unless it is unique. New York Times columnist Bari Weiss took a more direct…