Assorted Links for Monday

  1. The Old World Order Is Dead. Its Replacement Struggles to Be Born
  2. Money Isn’t a Measuring Stick – It’s a Messenger
  3. India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths
  4. a) Dozens of Countries Pause Parcels to the U.S. b) De Minimis Shipments to the U.S. Have Tripled Since 2018 and c) Where ‘De Minimis’ Exemptions Apply
  5. On Western Dynamism
  6. What will happen with Housing Prices?
  7. The Immigration Lesson Liberals Don’t Want to Face
  8. Effects of Tariff Uncertainty on the Outlook of Small and Medium-sized Businesses
  9. Covert Ops are the Dark Matter of World Politics
  10. Europe’s Public Debt Problem Migrates to France and the UK
  11. The Fed’s Hidden Powers and Its AI Future
  12. What Do Managers Do?
  13. The Employment Situation – August 2025
  14. Anthropic Agrees to Pay at Least $1.5 Billion in Landmark Copyright Settlement (WSJ)
  15. The Drug War Moves to… Venezuela?