Competition still exists, folks. | Continue reading
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition. | Continue reading
Learning about the immigrant experience by reading graphic novels | Continue reading
A guest post by Prakash Loungani and Karan Bhasin. | Continue reading
This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens. | Continue reading
It should be easier to capitalize on the anti-Trump backlash. | Continue reading
Poor countries have to get rich somehow. This is the tried-and-true method. | Continue reading
If the Chinese Century underwhelms, it'll be partly due to a single man. | Continue reading
Why I think this political movement isn't going anywhere in the long term. | Continue reading
To some degree, yes. But what they really need is a development state. | Continue reading
It was always bound to happen. | Continue reading
Alarmism is everywhere, but a lot of it is just brainworms. | Continue reading
ICE backlash; progressive bumbling; antisocial Americans; bad inflation data; the Roaring 20s; AI politics; China vs. America | Continue reading
An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to China's rise. | Continue reading
Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back. | Continue reading
Three possible explanations. | Continue reading
Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from. | Continue reading
U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial crisis; macroeconomics vs. microeconomics; | Continue reading
The America you grew up in is under attack from technologies that we ourselves invented. | Continue reading
A repost from the Noahpinion archives, with a few updates. | Continue reading
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago. | Continue reading
Increasingly squeezed between the new leftism and the new rightism. | Continue reading
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production. | Continue reading
Between new technology and low fertility, our existence as a species is not going to be the same. | Continue reading
One of my favorite writers has joined Substack! Let's see what he has to say. | Continue reading
Progressive ideas still try to defy economic realities. | Continue reading
I wouldn't be too worried. | Continue reading
China is paying its national champions to fight each other to the death. | Continue reading
The authoritarian advantage is hype. But China is the real deal. | Continue reading
A review by Sandeep Vaheesan fails to discredit Abundance, but it points to what the movement could be doing better. | Continue reading
This is still the country I grew up in. | Continue reading
We used to be able to spread out. Now we're locked in with each other. | Continue reading
Government efficiency; Solar power; Data suppression; American wealth; Trade and manufacturing | Continue reading
I've been writing about this for a while. | Continue reading
The far right and the far left both want you to think that the purpose of immigration is to overthrow America. Don't let them get away with it. | Continue reading
Instead of moral problems, let's think of things like obesity as technological problems. | Continue reading
Tariff pauses are keeping us afloat for now. But debt and interest rates are a big threat. | Continue reading
A Ukrainian drone attack shows our extreme vulnerability. | Continue reading
Sunny visions of the future are great. But if you want to lead the Democrats, you need to fight. | Continue reading
Before you criticize something, at least try to understand it. | Continue reading
Another common economic narrative that's out of date. | Continue reading
We're messing with the engine that makes our country run. | Continue reading
Some thoughts on the future of the media. | Continue reading
A recording from Noah Smith's live video | Continue reading
YIMBY wins; America calming down; Biotech miracles; Progress in education; The good kind of nationalism | Continue reading
The missing piece in our urbanist discussion. | Continue reading
Creating a stable multiracial nation is a tricky thing to do. | Continue reading
When countries start fearing the future, they stagnate. | Continue reading