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Tyler Cowen: uncertainty

8 Jan 2025 Conversations with Tyler Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema

“Ones like North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief I think of as light and frothy, but I don’t know.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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8 Jan 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…That whole era was his peak period, I believe, although he was excellent for a long time. I’m never sure which are the deep Hitchcock movies, though. Ones like North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief I think of as light and frothy, but I don’t know. There’s some underlying sense of menace, and maybe having more frothiness in it is part of the depth as well. Yes. Yes, it’s hard to say. There are so many great ones, and some of them are probably less known to people. Some of the black-and-white ones that younger people don’t tend to watch as much, Strangers on a Train, Notorious —…

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