10 Links

1. “Monks Lose Relevance as Thailand Grows Richer” — The New York Times
2. An Economics Masterpiece You Should Be Reading Now — Bloomberg
3. The Basement — cabel.me
4. Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption — Forbes
5. In a New Era of Insider Trading, It’s Risk vs. Reward Squared — The New York Times
6. The Best 10 Economics Papers of 2012 — UDADISI
7. The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed — Bloomberg
8. Timeline of the far future — Wikipedia
9. 2012’s Most Popular Locations on Instagram — Instagram blog (Thailand watchers will be interested to note the first two spots)
10. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Holland vs the Netherlands.”

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