I don't believe I've ever used that word in writing and have only one downloaded Canadian document in my searchable files that used it. On that sample, the probability of "ornery" being used in Canadian discourse is vanishingly small. www.readtheline.ca/p/rob-breake....

1. The Blob - www.facebook.com/horrorads/vi... - I was sure it was under my bed
2. "Birth of a Monster" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxXK... - the monster looked like the tree outside my bedroom window
3. Fear - because I read that the only thing to fear was fear itself and I was impressionable.

Speaking of the market's price discovery, this is one of my favourite charts of all time, from a Bank of Canada Deputy Governor - www.bankofcanada.ca/2013/11/pric... - market price discovery implies law of one price holds - oops.

Imports are going to land on Kharg Island on Delivery Day?

Everything is in short supply - even space. Budget constraints on pricing result in rationing of available quantities. Perhaps the Strait of Hormuz has narrowed, with cascading consequences into type-setting?

The years that Krugman circles in his diagram are those I classify as the era of "machine knowledge capital" or MKC. The introduction of new forms of productive capital tends to transform everything - and Krugman's puzzle is corroborative for me. Discussion here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This also links to "precarity" - elimination of consumer surplus means one shock pushes a household into a precarious state. Which means households are living on the edge. Which has implications for consumer sentiment. See Krugman's puzzle: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

One of the interesting connections is to the issue of affordability. Perfect price discrimination transfers consumer surplus (which makes things feel relatively cheap to consumers) to producers. Elimination of consumer surplus thus makes everything feel expensive - hence borderline "affordable".

This exercise raises serious questions about whether the US is actually running a massive trade deficit as the populist trade economics maintains. Diego Marroquin of CSIS takes up this issue in "Reinforce, Don’t Reopen: Why Digital Trade Matters in the 2026 USMCA Review" www.csis.org/analysis/rei...

In my own work, I've done a similar exercise trying to put a value on the international data flows that US platforms have been hoovering up in a very imbalanced barter trade - beads for Manhattan all over again - based on equity market valuations of data-rich firms. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

True. "It was on a cold winter's night in 1983 ..." www.bbc.com/culture/arti....
Also: "At the time, Shergar had been settling into a new life at stud..." Dream job. Why does that not happen to me? Don't answer - it would not reflect well on either of us.

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Perhaps Rodrigo Chaves Robles could undertake to accepted all the vulnerable young people incarcerated by ICE (www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...), especially pregnant girls. He would have a future "Schindler's List" movie about him.