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Inflation should be the highest policy priority; Bayesian reasoning and the Wuhan lab leak; the urgent need for economic reform; how to reduce debt, Jamaica style; and even when wrong, models can be useful.

Javier Milei's troubles in Argentina; the death of the Scottish Enlightenment; how to regulate AI; Bowen's emission's backdown; the limits of industrial policy; how not to fix housing; and how happy are we, really?

Tasmanians will go to the polls tomorrow but it's looking like it'll be more of the same; I ask whether you should you fly on a Boeing; why Xi Jinping's leadership meant Evergrande was inevitable; and what's going on across the ditch.

The rental affordability crisis has been overblown; why your shower should be a lot better; Chris Minns is doing great work on housing; the freaky side of politics and academia; and a little green bonus.

Where the cost of living crisis is biting hardest; China's pivot from growth to security; AI is a marathon, not a sprint; why interest rates might stay higher for longer; and plenty more in this week's Fodder.

Why you should ignore pundits, Google breaks its brain (or how to slowly ruin a good business), Australia's Workplace Gender Equality Agency released data that are about as useful as tits on a bull, and is Joe Biden too old?

Are you being underpaid, how should we best mitigate carbon emissions (and how two prominent government advisors got it so wrong), why we shouldn't bail out the nickel industry, and what's the most important stock on Earth?

Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. Stepped on by stamp duty Move over income tax, because the always-interesting folks at the e61 Institute released a note

Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. Confusing cause with effect Former chair of the ACCC, Allan Fels, released his much anticipated report into "price gouging

Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. Boeing's cycle of misery You may have seen or read about the issues Boeing's commercial aircraft