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Connor Tabarrok
Personal blog · alltrades.substack.comeconomicsscience
Connor Tabarrok writes Of All Trades, a personal blog at alltrades.substack.com about economics and science. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Bank of Starbucks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack post about Starbucks holding about 2 billion in people's unused gift cards and pre-paid store credit, which it frames as a bank. The only comment is a bare citation of the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter by Connor Tabarrok, centered around science, engineering, and progress.
Most-linked posts?
- The Bank of Starbucks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-28
What Hacker News says?
Fun fact: Starbucks is holding 2 BILLION of people's money in the form of unused gift cards and pre-paid store credit: https://alltrades.substack.com/p/the-bank-of-starbucks
Comment linking /p/the-bank-of-starbucks
on “Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year”Submitted Why you should (maybe?) eat animals to save the world. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Water and Sanitation in the Developing World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bank of Starbucks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Burying the Lead: Understanding heavy metal exposure today and in ancient Rome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mushrooms, Global Warming, and the Next Pandemic as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
