When tight money can raise future inflation
Explore how fiscal dominance can make tighter money raise future inflation when debt service outruns growth and fiscal policy does not adjust.
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Research review notes
Reviews of the credibility, utility, and implications of research papers. Each current (2026) AI-assisted review uses a two-stage prompt. First, an editorial sweep examines what the paper actually says and extracts core claims. Second, a research review pass creates the raw material for each note. Besides the claims, I also include a bit about how this paper fits into the broader literature, remaining information gaps, and the paper's broader implications.
Bitcoin energy use - a framework
Explore how Bitcoin mining incentives, energy mix, security, and system boundaries shape credible environmental research.
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When can LLMs stand in for human subjects?
Explore how LLMs could reshape social science and why synthetic participants require rigorous validation before supporting human inference.
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How merchant guilds made rulers’ promises credible
Explore how merchant guilds coordinated boycotts and enforced member compliance to make rulers’ protection promises credible.
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Bitcoin maximalism as techno-libertarian religion
Explore how Bitcoin maximalism functions as a Durkheimian religion, forging a moral community and acting as an instrument of salvation narrative for techno-libertarians.
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Bitcoin Hard Forks as Reversible Exit and Continuing Voice
Explore how Hirschman's exit, voice, and loyalty framework applies to Bitcoin hard forks and reversible stakeholder commitment.
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Philosophical Ontology of Bitcoin Money
Explore how Bitcoin acts as commodity, fiat, and credit money without traditional foundations, exposing the contingent nature of monetary systems
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Macroeconomic Limits of AI: A Task-Based Review
Explore how a task-based model constrains AI productivity forecasts to modest ten-year total factor productivity gains, highlighting GDP and welfare divergence.
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AI's jagged frontier helps and harms knowledge workers
Explore how GPT-4 access improved consulting output quality and speed on some tasks while reducing correctness on others in a field experiment.
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Automation, new tasks, and the labor share
Explore how task-based automation displaces labor, why new tasks stabilize the labor share, and the risks of so-so AI and excessive automation.
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Crypto-carbon connectedness across market states and horizons
Explore how state- and horizon-dependent volatility spillovers reshape crypto-carbon risk and limit universal safe-haven claims.
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Integrating Bitcoin Mining with Renewable Energy: A Hedging Strategy for Electricity Price Volatility
Full article summary: Bastian-Pinto, C.L., Araujo, F.V.d.S., Brandão, L.E., Gomes, L.L., 2021. Hedging renewable energy investments with Bitcoin mining. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 138, 110520.
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