Bernard's Top 10 @ 10 'pick 'n' mix' for March 13
Angus Deaton's apostasy; Phoenix rises from Tui's dirty well; Previewing Wellington's most important decision ever; John Kerry on our collective climate suicide; Niall Ferguson and John Burn-Murdoch
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:
Today’s must-read: Angus Deaton on rethinking his economics IMF
Local scoop: The people behind Tamarind, the firm that left a $500m cleanup bill for taxpayers at Taranaki’s Tui oil well, are back operating in Taranaki under a different company name. Jonathan Milne for Newsroom
Local deep-dive: Joel MacManus previews tomorrow’s moment of truth for Wellington’s District Plan at The Spinoff.
Global scoop: Car chargers are riddled with security flaws that could see cars and power grids taken over by hackers, WSJ reports in this video via MSN
Global deep-dive: John Kerry talking with David Wallace-Wells about our global suicide pact NYT-gift
Column of the day: Niall Ferguson on how a global population crash isn’t sci-fi anymore, via Bloomberg-gift
Op-ed of the day: The Public Health Communications Centre estimates in this Op-ed leaky pipes waste $122 million per year.
Thread of the day: John Burn-Murdoch via X on how non-white voters are shifting away from the Democrats in the United States.
Paper of the day: Do people report happiness accurately? This paper published via the US NBER suggests not.
Fun thing of the day: A gift that keeps giving for cartoonists. Matt
Today’s must-read
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