Shops make a city great

The missing piece in our urbanist discussion. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

White Americans as a normal minority

Creating a stable multiracial nation is a tricky thing to do. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"?

When countries start fearing the future, they stagnate. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

So why *did* U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years?

There are a few theories, but none of them really satisfies. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

America has become a laughingstock

This is no longer a serious country. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Why has American pop culture stagnated?

Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

At least five interesting things: Requiem for capitalism edition (#63)

Buffett's secret sauce; Trump's price controls; More bad Abundance critiques; The software employment bust; British productivity | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

The crisis of the 21st century is here

Slipping a little bit closer toward a world of war. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class

The protectionist narrative is more myth than fact. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Thoughts on Sinofuturism

What does it mean for China to be "the future"? And what does that future look like? | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

The Tech Right is not succeeding

Technologists once again prove ham-handed when it comes to politics. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake?

Imports don't subtract from GDP. Stop saying they do! | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Welcome to The Future

This time it arrived right on schedule. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

I owe the libertarians an apology

It turns out there are worse monsters than the market. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months

Some guesses as to how long it will take the real pain to arrive. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

MAGA doesn't build

Instead of a "Fourth Turning", we got a backward-looking, destructive regime. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

How to have friends past age 30

A quick and simple guide. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

You are the heir to something greater than Empire

Our golden age lies in our future, not our past. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

The pundit's dilemma

Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That's a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

In which I review almost every episode of Black Mirror

Dammit, I really need a break from economics. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Worst-case scenarios and endgames for the Trump economy

And why Trump's attack on the Fed makes them more likely. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Will this be the Chinese Century?

Probably yes, though that may not mean what people expect. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

The authoritarian takeover attempt is here

Sadly, we were warned. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

What would a real anti-China trade strategy look like?

How we would do things if we were serious. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

This is called "capital flight"

It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

At least five interesting things: Nightmarica edition (#62)

American dystopia; The assault on science; Trade war eternal; Abundance and redistribution; Fertility and the draft; AI and skills; Smartphones and competence | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

All the arguments for tariffs are wrong and bad

Trump's defenders are flailing. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Hey Democrats: Stop fiddling while Trump burns America

Someone has to stop the Mad King. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Trade deficits do not make a country poorer

There are real problems with trade deficits, but Trump doesn't understand what they are. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Tariffs: Another American act of intentional self-harm

As Adam Smith said, "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation." | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

If you're in Tokyo, come join my hanami this Saturday!

Not an actual blog post, just an invitation. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

How Brazil built a world-beating aircraft manufacturer

A guest post by Pedro Franco. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

The latest episode of Mad King Trump

How long before businesses get fed up? | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Understanding America's New Right

Fighting for Western Civilization in someone else's back yard | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

If and when you live in a dictatorship, how will you know?

Trump's power is far from absolute, but he's always trying to see what he can get away with. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Blue states don't build. Red states do.

A timely repost, with some updates. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

At least five interesting things: Japan Trip edition (#61)

Trump and Social Security; San Francisco corruption; Phones making us dumb; Ukraine and drones; Abundance stuff; Indian industrial policy; Steve Glinert on CHIPS reform | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

The "corporate feudalism" thing won't work

Warrenite progressives are not going to catch populist fire by bashing corporations. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Dems need to moderate and fight

There's no contradiction there. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Book review: "Abundance"

In which Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a whole new way of thinking about political economy. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

I have written a book!

It's called "Weeb Economy". But so far it's only in Japanese. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

It's time to start panicking about the national debt

Trump and the Republicans are trying to make things even worse. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

China is trying to kneecap Indian manufacturing

An attempt to head off its only future rival. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Why America betrayed Europe

There are lots of reasons, actually. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

There is no utopia waiting on the other side of Trump's economy

It's just pain now in exchange for more pain later. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

This thing will fail

Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

At least five interesting things: Bananas republic edition (#60)

Trump's chaos; GDP and government spending; DOGE; AI and growth; The baby bust | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago

Trump takes a baseball bat to the U.S. economy

Destroying Americans' livelihoods and wealth to satisfy the whims of a crazy ideology. | Continue reading


@noahpinion.blog | 1 year ago