Thursday Links – 26 February 2026

Even for the wealthy, income after taxes and transfers has been growing faster than market income.

Interesting argument: Medical advances over the past 40 years have masked the epidemic of violence by lowering the murder rate by more than five times.

Tyler Cowen’s vision of what an AI-dominated world would look like.

Alysa Liu’s dad became a single father via surrogacy. 

Three ways countries around the world are taxing carbon. (The US is in the lower fourth– between South Africa and Uruguay. China falls even lower than the US. India is lower than China.

More than 20 percent of US Olympic medals went to athletes who grew up or trained in Vermont.

“Of all the foods we produce on Earth, beef is the No. 1 destroyer of forests, and especially rainforests.”