Intro to Econ: Cash for slime: Towns paying for dead slugs | Yle News
Four Finnish cities are offering bounties for dead slugs. It sounds like a great policy to get rid of pests, but let’s hope it doesn’t have a cobra effect.
Related Classic: The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned | Atlas Obscura
An enterprising variation on the Cobra Effect, the residents of Hanoi farmed rats for their tails to receive bounty payments, then released the rats into the city.
Money and Banking: Happy Birthday, Money | NYTimes (gift article)
On June 22, 2025, the Continental Congress authorized the printing of $2 million in new currency. And the Founding Fathers learned first hand the relationship between the money supply and its value.
Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium: Australia cashes in on record sheep prices as meat exports surge | MSN
Higher demand for lamb, and decreased supply from New Zealand, has Australian sheep farmers optimistic.
Labor Markets: Farming vs. podcast bros: Sam Altman predicts jobs will continue to evolve to look 'sillier and sillier' | Business Insider
The OpenAI CEO is optimistic that jobs won’t disappear because of AI, they will just become something different, and likely would appear ridiculous to our ancestors.
Globalization: AI chip power demands push data centers to get creative | Quartz
The demand for data centers is skyrocketing, creating incentives for improving the “power usage effectiveness, or PUE, of existing data centers.
Thank you for the roundup. I learned a lot!