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Financial Times

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Financial Times is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between June 29, 2022 and May 15, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “From the Financial Times”; “From the Financial Times”; “Financial Times article on recent charter city developments in Africa”. It most often appears alongside California, Chicago, Honduras.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: June 29, 2022
  • Last seen: May 15, 2025

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What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?
June 29, 2022 · Original source
From the Financial Times. Notice no difference from the usual trend in March, April, or early May, then a very obvious spike around the time the BLM protests start on May 25. This is shootings rather than murders, for the same reason discussed below, but murders show a similar though noisier pattern. Another surprise on the Intercept’s graph: Minneapolis, the epicenter of BLM protests, saw more of a change in January-April than from May-August. Is this true? Cassell (2020) shows us the data: It looks like maybe this is random variation; there’s so few murders in Minneapolis in the winter that even one or two looks like a very large percent increase. But the raw data show that the summer was a much bigger deal. Since murder is very rare, maybe we can get a better view using assault, a crime similar to murder but much more common: Now the pattern is really obvious, except that it looks like it began about a week before the protests. I’m not sure, but I think this is because the site the paper took this from uses a 7-day rolling average, which smooths the data at the cost of having it be about a week off. A few of the other graphs have this problem as well, but I wouldn’t read too much into it. Nationwide, the spike in murders clearly happened in May, not March. On a city by city level, it’s hard to tell because murders are so rare. But when we look at other crimes that probably correlate with the murder rate, they clearly go up in May, not March. Police Pullback My specific claim is that the protests caused police to do less policing in predominantly black areas. This could be because of any of: Police interpreted the protests as a demand for less policing, and complied.
Inline links: Cassell (2020), https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EGDj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46ae5619-a8dd-4b28-a4c0-3a98e712c51b_608x488.png, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VCKB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae2f05f2-4dff-4561-8222-5446e0f9f9ac_638x475.png
23: California Dreamin'
September 04, 2023 · Original source
2: Financial Times article on recent charter city developments in Africa.
Inline links: Financial Times article on recent charter city developments in Africa
Book Review: Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids
May 15, 2025 · Original source
The Financial Times presents the argument from standardized testing: Have humans passed peak brain power? Student and adult test performance peaked in 2012, and has gone down ever since.
Inline links: Have humans passed peak brain power?
But these are American scores only. The pre-COVID decline in American scores was marginal at best. And the Financial Times’ cited scores across all OECD nations.