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Roundabouts are good way to control traffic. But they are land-hungry. In certain places getting that land back should be a priority. Land use is a topic that excites a lot of economists. We are obsessed with efficient use of inputs, and land is one...

Everyone’s excited about this chart. It shows official interest rates racing up to almost 3 per cent by the end of the year. That would be one of the fastest interest rate rise cycles in history and would make a lot of people with mortgages rather unhappy...

Thanks for reading this series. Your reward for getting this far is a juicy post full of fun stuff you can use to get an edge in the lottery. I didn’t expect it was possible to play the lottery strategically, but I was wrong. I’m excited by what I found...

Last week Powerball rose to a very rare $120 million Division One jackpot, and I wrote a post about why such jackpots seem so tempting but turn out so frustrating. It turned into one of the most popular posts in the 13-year history of this blog and readers...

POST STATUS: Lot of calculations below. Still early days in the checking process. Could be errors. Caveat emptor! — This Thursday’s Powerball has a $120 million Division 1 prize pool. It’s huge – the second biggest Division One prize in history. Over...