Americans want prices to actually go down, not just to rise more slowly. Making that happen will be tough. | Continue reading
A lot of people doubt that India can develop. I'll take the other side of that bet. | Continue reading
Part II of my book, Weeb Economy. | Continue reading
Contemplating the unknowable. | Continue reading
There are some strains, but the wheels aren't coming off quite yet. | Continue reading
Basic income; Mississippi education; Nick Fuentes; Positive social trends; Botswana; Prison vs. mental hospitals; Building aesthetics; China brain-drain | Continue reading
In which I debate Brian Merchant on the robot future | Continue reading
Even if AI works, and even if it gets adopted very fast, it might not make profit. | Continue reading
Menaced by Russia and China, abandoned by America. | Continue reading
As soon as you start judging people as a group, the rightists win. | Continue reading
Extreme vertical integration makes China's research system different than any other. | Continue reading
Supporting the middle class, shoring up support for the system, and restoring the lifeblood of our cities. | Continue reading
Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments. | Continue reading
People love to say that the American middle class is poor. But it's not. | Continue reading
In which David Marx offers a theory of why our culture has stagnated. | Continue reading
Year Five of the Noahpinion Substack. | Continue reading
The collapse of Americans' math and reading skills is a national emergency. | Continue reading
AI "bubble"; Tariffs and inflation; African solarpunk; Mass extinctions; De facto sovereign wealth funds; U.S. immigration policy; EVs and messaging | Continue reading
Sometimes it's good to listen to the economists. | Continue reading
Military technology is changing rapidly, and we're going to have to change with it. | Continue reading
We're propping up prices to boost old people's wealth. But that's shutting young people out of the capitalist system. | Continue reading
They're working hard for someone else's benefit. | Continue reading
Pointing out America's problems will not help Europe solve its own. | Continue reading
Socialist priorities aren't going to retain NYC's key industries or bring down its high costs. | Continue reading
An excerpt from my book, Weeb Economy. | Continue reading
Antitrust; Passive investing; Export controls; Overtourism; Selective immigration | Continue reading
A repost, with some updates. | Continue reading
In which Cartoons Hate Her comes to terms with a devastating realization: She has a cringey obsession with Irish culture. | Continue reading
Our ancestors bought us eighty years of peace, institutional effectiveness, and moral clarity. But nothing lasts forever. | Continue reading
More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves. | Continue reading
How to get Japan growing fast again. | Continue reading
The American left must rediscover the Americanism of FDR and JFK. | Continue reading
Strongman leaders are trying to bring order to a world disrupted by new media. But the "cure" is worse than the disease. | Continue reading
America needs energy. Trump is making it harder to get energy. | Continue reading
AI companies are borrowing more money to invest more in AI. | Continue reading
Without Trump's charisma, the American right will have to rely on ideology. That's scary. | Continue reading
Trump is likely to fold, as usual. But if he didn't, the U.S. could free itself from the Chinese yoke. | Continue reading
Doomerism; Stereotypes about Indians; Nobel laureate age; AI and radiologists; Europe vs. China | Continue reading
Aghion, Howitt, and Mokyr tackled the biggest question of all. | Continue reading
If the economy's single pillar goes down, Trump's presidency will be seen as a disaster. | Continue reading
A great nation at its peak can still make big mistakes. | Continue reading
A brief visit to a country that has mostly made it. | Continue reading
It's not great. But if we want, we can still get things back on track. | Continue reading
And...should they? | Continue reading
An idea for a new global Hanseatic League. | Continue reading
In which Kate Raworth summarizes many leftish criticisms of economics. | Continue reading
Some places want to build. Maybe we should just let them. | Continue reading