1. Andrew Coyne on the great stagnation.
2. Can a fungus make a cheap fiddle sound like a Stradivarius?
3. Poll about the rudest countries to visit (I disagree with the results at the top end of the scale, and might cite Morocco as the rudest).
4. China’s Solyndra economy.
5. Maria Popova’s information diet.
6. DeLong edits Ray Dalio.
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