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John Mullahy
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UW-Madison, Univ. of Galway, NBER

C.V.: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/kkaquhtv5b2og4yo6md5p34f7q7gx1ju

Banner image: Free Clinic (detail), Jacob Lawrence, 1937

Economics 46%
Mathematics 17%

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Back to up 255 Kelvin here in Chicago.

From my cold, dead hands...

“I’ll take the extra time and transportation to get to a Costco over standing in line for two hours to get into the Louvre,” said Tommy Breaux, a 66-year-old retiree in Houston who counts a suburban Paris location among his foreign conquests.

www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
Americans Travel the World Only to Wind Up in Costco
Fans skip the Louvre and other tourist attractions to buy bulk souvenirs and find out if the hot dog is different.
www.wsj.com

On the plus side the queue at our local ice cream shop will likely be relatively short.

Join us in Milan this summer.

🥶 One way to define extreme cold...
Weather update: In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.

The cancelation applies to all class meetings, including lectures, labs and discussion sections. All other campus operations will continue as normal.

More info: news.wisc.edu/weather-upda...
Weather update: Friday classes canceled
In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.
news.wisc.edu

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Weather update: In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.

The cancelation applies to all class meetings, including lectures, labs and discussion sections. All other campus operations will continue as normal.

More info: news.wisc.edu/weather-upda...
Weather update: Friday classes canceled
In response to the extreme cold, UW–Madison is canceling classes on Friday, January 23.
news.wisc.edu

Jawdropping juxtaposition

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Congratulations to Joseph P. Newhouse of @harvard.edu who was recognized as a 2025 Distinguished Fellow by Katharine Abraham at the #ASSA2026 Annual Meeting. #econsky aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

Is a framework of a deal something like a concept of a plan?

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Greenland Live Updates: Trump Calls Off Tariffs on Europe Over Danish Territory
President Trump said he reached the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland with NATO.
www.wsj.com

Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
—Charles Dickens

"Deaths reduced by 800%"
Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading.

paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com

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There is an irony that Trump is trying to steal Greenland from Denmark while copying their vaccine system.

Incentives Matter, Chapter 832.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_...

“The reality is that pharmaceutical ads have become kind of themselves, generic, right?...There’s lots of people dancing in slow motion in fields or driving convertibles down the Pacific Coast Highway or whatever. You don’t know what they’re saying.”

www.wsj.com/articles/nov...
Novo Nordisk Aims to Set Ozempic Apart From Other GLP-1s in New Ad Campaign
Novo Nordisk’s new Ozempic ads star Justin Long and John Hodgman, the “Mac” and “PC” of an iconic Apple campaign, to promote the drug’s wider FDA approvals.
www.wsj.com

"The typewriter showed me exactly when I wasn’t present. It was humbling. Useful. It made me a better writer..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/i...
In a Typewriter Repair Shop, a Reporter Finds a Familiar Hum
www.nytimes.com

The reincarnation of Jimmy Chitwood.
FERNANDO. MENDOZA.

AN UNREAL PLAY ON 4TH DOWN.

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FERNANDO. MENDOZA.

AN UNREAL PLAY ON 4TH DOWN.

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Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis" (1776):
"There are persons who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeed, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice..."

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Poetry Foundation's "poem of the day" notes that it is Martin Luther King Day. "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall will break your heart and build your resolve. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/poem-o...
Poem of the Day
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org

"These cases show that investor ownership – and its consequences for patients and health care workers – need not be met with passive acceptance."

www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

I wonder whether Stephen Miller can get past this verification.