At least five interesting things: You Can't Just Do Things edition (#69)
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At least five interesting things: You Can't Just Do Things edition (#69)
AI and jobs, again
Book Review: "Breakneck"
A few cultural thoughts
Europe's crusade against air conditioning is insane
Moderation is good for its own sake
Toward a Shallower Future
America has only one real city
Corporations aren't the reason your rent is too high
At least five interesting things: Cool research edition (#68)
Did RFK just take away your cancer treatment?
Immigrant memoir comics!
What can India do to industrialize?
Will data centers crash the economy?
The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops
Xi Jinping is the main thing holding China back
Should Democrats go back to neoliberalism?
The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan
At least five interesting things: Bad Policy edition (#67)
Trump is enabling Chinese power
Developing countries: A follow-up
Free-market economics is working surprisingly well
At least five interesting things: It Isn't That Bad edition (#66)
The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis
We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich
Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars?
The dawn of the posthuman age
A chat with Derek Thompson
China's industrial policy has an unprofitability problem
Western democracies are actually pretty good at war
Feeling cautiously optimistic about American democracy
Social media destroyed one of America's key advantages
At least five interesting things: Anything but protests edition (#65)
A bunch of thoughts and evidence on immigration
It's OK not to be fat
How Chinese drones could defeat America
The anti-economists have overreached
Service costs aren't exploding anymore
The Age of Twitter is finally ending. Can Substack take its place?
Memorial Day chat with Matt Yglesias
At least five interesting things: Stubborn optimism edition (#64)
Shops make a city great
Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"?
So why *did* U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years?
Why has American pop culture stagnated?
At least five interesting things: Requiem for capitalism edition (#63)
Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class
Thoughts on Sinofuturism
Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake?
Welcome to The Future
I owe the libertarians an apology
What I Got Wrong about Trump
MAGA doesn't build
How to have friends past age 30
The pundit's dilemma
In which I review almost every episode of Black Mirror
Will this be the Chinese Century?
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here
What would a real anti-China trade strategy look like?
At least five interesting things: Nightmarica edition (#62)
All the arguments for Trump's tariffs are wrong and bad
Hey Democrats: Stop fiddling while Trump burns America
Trade deficits do not make a country poorer
If you're in Tokyo, come join my hanami this Saturday!
How Brazil built a world-beating aircraft manufacturer
The latest episode of Mad King Trump
If and when you live in a dictatorship, how will you know?
Blue states don't build. Red states do.
At least five interesting things: Japan Trip edition (#61)
Dems need to moderate and fight
Book review: "Abundance"
I have written a book!
China is trying to kneecap Indian manufacturing
Why America betrayed Europe
This thing will fail
At least five interesting things: Bananas republic edition (#60)
Trump takes a baseball bat to the U.S. economy
Is China inventing big important things?
Popular econ books: What to read, what not to read
What happens when we gut federal science funding?
Only fools think Elon is incompetent
America is being sold out by its leaders
Japan, South Korea, and Poland need nuclear weapons immediately
One big thing the legacy media gets wrong
It's time for Europe to stand up
At least five interesting things: Chaos Blitz edition (#59)
Anti-anti-neoliberalism is also not enough
What's going to happen to Ukraine now?
When are tariffs good?
Trump starts to break things
Patrick Collison interview + at least five interesting things (#58)
Too many Americans still fear the future
Paul Krugman and Noah Smith have a chat
Come watch my live chat with Paul Krugman today!
Yes, reshoring American industry is possible
Your memecoin is your slush fund
Why I'm long-term bullish on the Middle East
The Pettis Paradigm and the Second China Shock
Should economists read Marx?
At least five interesting things: Red Tape edition (#57)