Poland vs. China; smartphones; basic income; the soft landing; wages and automation; software and inequality; immigrant doctors | Continue reading
Why the best President of my lifetime might get misremembered as a bumbling caretaker. | Continue reading
Democrats are the party that benefits from low voter turnout. They just don’t know it yet. (Guest post by Wally Nowinski) | Continue reading
Has China invented a better way to run an advanced economy? | Continue reading
There are many reasons some tech companies and figures are now supporting Trump. | Continue reading
That's a scary thought, but not for the reason it used to be. | Continue reading
In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump, America is the world's least stable Great Power. | Continue reading
A little-understood fact. | Continue reading
A joint blog post by Noah and Minn Kim on America's need for a national skilled immigration strategy. | Continue reading
Slop wars; Poland and Ukraine; AI bubble; MMT reversal; | Continue reading
Who says econ blogging can't be fun? | Continue reading
How can we get America back to the forefront of energy research? | Continue reading
A few hypotheses about a very disturbing trend. | Continue reading
A somber 4th of July post, but hopefully also a sober one. | Continue reading
The end of Chevron deference; export controls; jerky American profs; basic income; economics of AI; solar power uses; Global South tariffs; Gen Z wages; Stiglitz | Continue reading
Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1. | Continue reading
What will it mean for the U.S. and the world? | Continue reading
South Asia and Southeast Asia are globalization's next frontier. | Continue reading
The people telling you crime isn't falling are feeding you a line. | Continue reading
How electricity is replacing combustion as humanity's key tool for mastering the physical world. | Continue reading
Soviet America (or not); the energy revolution; Trump's tax cuts; the Build-Nothing Country; macro data mysteries | Continue reading
A policy competition from the Federation of American Scientists, Chris Miller, ChinaTalk, and me | Continue reading
There is no imminent crisis. | Continue reading
One towering intellectual defined our thinking on foreign policy for a generation. He got a lot of things wrong. | Continue reading
A little break from our typical economics fare. | Continue reading
China is now the leader in applied physical sciences. How can the U.S. and its allies catch up? | Continue reading
When good data gets attached to a misleading narrative. | Continue reading
Europe's Greens; jobs and the Great Replacement; tariffs and development; rent control; service costs | Continue reading
Legacy chips, drones, and coordination with allies. | Continue reading
There are several good reasons to be worried. | Continue reading
The rise in maternal mortality, the fall in geographic mobility, the rise in teen suicide, and many other "facts" are being called into question. | Continue reading
Modi's third term; Biden and the border; good news on climate; nonprofits being bad; interest rates and austerity | Continue reading
Not as much as people think. | Continue reading
Trump's conviction could herald a conservative renaissance, or four years of crippling institutional conflict | Continue reading
It can't take precedence over everything else, all the time. | Continue reading
It's getting a little warmer out there. | Continue reading
Elite overproduction spotted in the wild. | Continue reading
WW2 production; "Neopopulism"; fake science; desire modification; deregulation ideas | Continue reading
A guest post by Jonathan Grady | Continue reading
Trump and Lighthizer want to "weaken" the dollar. It's an idea worth considering, but the devil is in the details. | Continue reading
A scary little theory about information and freedom. | Continue reading
If you don't acknowledge the point of tariffs, how can you hope to criticize them? | Continue reading
The U.S. as trade war leader; Russia/China infowar; Biden and inflation; Yglesias on industrial policy; How to get immigrants to the Rust Belt; How to lose money | Continue reading
Six theories. | Continue reading
But there's still no 1980s-style conservative movement to capitalize on the trends. | Continue reading
Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish. | Continue reading