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Visit these 18 fabulous libraries.
Go there (someday) in a "windowless" airplane.
Ask if you can fly a drone around inside to potentially produce videos as cool as these.
If they'll let you, film it for a week so it can get on prime-time Norwegian TV. Those guys plus the drones are getting close to my ideas.

Barry Ritholtz shares his basic simple truths of investing. These are highly recommended. Make sure you read the whole (short) list as the last two are as important as any.

Once you've got your investing house in order, better get to work on correcting these misconceptions about exercise--many of these are no surprise to loyal readers of MM.

Before leaving the body, don't fall for any detox nonsense in your New Year's Resolutionating.

John Cochrane goes all Principal Max Anderson in reviewing Ken Rogoff's proposal to eliminate physical currency. I fully am with Cochrane but I did want to quibble with his confusion about how this would actually affect monetary policy. You or I can immunize our own exposure to the negative interest rate, but we cannot all jointly eliminate it--the burden can only be transferred. I believe Scott Sumner has this criticism nailed.

We are repeatedly reminded that the overwhelming majority of NCAA athletes will go pro in something other than sports. For those the depressing fact is their degree wasn't worth that much. That doesn't surprise David Berri who also notes how the NBA age-limit rule (friendly for the NCAA) harms players while helping colleges and coaches.

Lot of count-ups and downs in this link fest. Here are 20 reasons the wind industry's case is (motionless) hot air.

Tim Harford reminds us in this post that most ventures are failures and we can learn from the losers.

If you were looking for a succinct list of arguments against price controls (ceilings specifically) in the face of disasters, you can relax--Don Boudreaux has provided it.

David Henderson reflects on one of his more memorable times questioning the powerful. If only more of us were so courageous as to continually question the military leadership.