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This is the largest part of the archive, and it is untidy by inheritance: the column published a great deal without choosing a heading for it, and that rubrication has been preserved rather than invented after the fact. What is filed here includes an interview with Robert Shiller, a review of Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise, a guide to the presidential betting market, a note on Mosler economics, four reading lists, and a run of short pieces on Libya, the Federal Reserve, OpenTable, 3-D printing and Las Vegas.

Re-filing it would mean deciding, years later, what the author meant to call each piece. The portal does not do that; it keeps the heading the snapshot carried and points readers at its own sections instead — markets and energy, banks and credit, policy, Housing, World, Society and economy of the gaming market — where new material is written to a stated method. Every address listed below is the one the column published, with its own date and byline.

Finding one particular piece in an index this size is easier from the portal’s own listings than from here: every entry on this page also appears in the newsroom’s dated list of all materials, newest first, and in the section index its subject belongs to. The page is kept because the column’s heading is part of the record and because links made to it still resolve. Addresses, dates and bylines below are the ones the snapshot carried.