Assorted links

1. Japan’s first cuddle cafe.

2. New critique of Woodford and ngdp targeting, from Gavyn Davies and others.

3. , and excellent material on Iranian hyperinflation.

4. Some of the maple syrup is seized, and the policy uncertainty costs of horse nationalism.

5. There is no great stagnation (the ostrich pillow), and Thiel and Kasparov and Rogoff and Shuttleworth will debate.