Degrowth, real and imagined; 90s taxes; China's banks; CHIPS Act bureaucrats; YIMBY education; the slacker era | Continue reading
Persecuting groups of people to score political points is not OK. | Continue reading
Europe is losing the productivity race. Can it get back in the game? | Continue reading
Biden already boosted fracking. Harris needs to promise more of the same. | Continue reading
Macro will not be mocked, sir. | Continue reading
Information war; Chinese VC; land reform; India's garment industry; degrowth research; Trump vs. Harris on deficits; good news | Continue reading
Why do I even have to type that sentence? | Continue reading
Poland is a developed country. But it can still get richer. | Continue reading
A guest post by Steven Glinert. | Continue reading
There are much better ways to tax the rich. We don't need this one. | Continue reading
A guest post by Brian Potter of Construction Physics. | Continue reading
They come back every few decades, spreading the same old lies. | Continue reading
Only one President has taken actual concrete steps to address U.S. industrial weakness vis-a-vis China. | Continue reading
Outrage is only one motivation for change, and it comes with a cost. | Continue reading
A repost, more relevant than ever. | Continue reading
Bashing this bogeyman is no substitute for a new policy program that works. | Continue reading
It's not a nerd revenge fantasy, but a cautionary tale. | Continue reading
Germany's mistakes; U.S. political parties; the VC winter; austerity; science and politics; TikTok propaganda; desalination | Continue reading
They aren't always right, but they almost always have something important to add. | Continue reading
Government data revisions can be scary, but they actually aren't that hard to understand. | Continue reading
A guest post by Brian Albrecht of Economic Forces. | Continue reading
One party is actively trying to leave the 2010s behind. The other is doubling down. | Continue reading
It has to be managed as both a consumer good and as an asset class. | Continue reading
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born employment; redistribution; transit costs | Continue reading
Don't turn to the dark side of progressive economics. | Continue reading
Trump's signature policy would frighten Americans without improving the immigration situation. | Continue reading
What people are writing about rebuilding America. | Continue reading
The internet is mostly complete. Where does tech go from here? | Continue reading
Looking for the silver lining in a messy policy. | Continue reading
Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind. | Continue reading
But even so, it's probably time for the Fed to start cutting rates. | Continue reading
Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America; corrupt nonprofits | Continue reading
A guest post by Cat Orman and Jason Lu | Continue reading
What *not* to do when you're in charge of a country. | Continue reading
A campaign insult offers a window into American society in the 2020s. | Continue reading
We were early to the party on every other technological revolution, but we missed this one. | Continue reading
We need a progressive approach to economics that doesn't depend on a deficiency of aggregate demand. | Continue reading
Plus: A bunch of fun posts I've written about Japanese urbanism and Japanese society. | Continue reading
A very real possibility that more people need to be worried about. | Continue reading
The automated luxury paradise is still just science fiction. | Continue reading
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