- Consumer Price Index – April 2025
- Democrat Appears to Win Omaha Mayor’s Race, Ending Era of Republican Leadership (NYT) Here is the Omaha World Herald coverage if it is not paywalled.
- From a Tin-Roof Shack, Pepe Mujica Removed the Pomp From Politics (NYT)
- Eleven thoughts on a really [crappy] House Budget (Warning – actual title contains language some don’t look for in political commentary)
- The promise of SGLT2 inhibitors – For diabetes, heart failure, and kidney problems
- Rent increases are driving overall inflation – but it’s a lot more complicated than you think (Market Watch – WSJ+)
- Why aren’t Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
- The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It (NYT)
- The length of software tasks AI systems can do on their own has been increasing quickly
- Warren Buffett Reveals He Stepped Down After Finally Feeling His Age (WSJ)
- Flat out Fabulous: How Barbie’s foot posture and occupations have changed over the decades and the lessons we can learn
- Meta releases new data set, AI model aimed at speeding up scientific research
- The Largest Risks Faced by the World
- Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults
- The Merciful Maximization of the Market
- Will Tariffs Restore Manufacturing Jobs? The Steel Industry’s Experience and Long-Term Autmation Say No via David Levey
- My $100 Tomato: Is Self-Sufficiency Overrated?
- The U.S. Nuclear Base Hidden Under Greenland’s Ice for Decades (WSJ)
- The Right Kind of Refugee
- Women Are Drinking More – and Doctors Are Worried (WSJ)
- Why Is Geographic Mobility Declining?
- Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980
- Partisan Corporate Speech
- Fueling Concentration: Network Effects and AI Agents
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson