- Taxing Capital Gains Only After Realization
- World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War (NYT)
- Everything Feels Like It Doesn’t Make Sense
- Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it
- Valencia’s flood was a catastrophe. Was it also a crime? (Wash Post)
- Price wars grip China as deflation deepens, $30 for a luxury Coach bag?
- Brian Wilson, Pop Auteur and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82 (NYT)
- The surprising resilience of a smiling salamander and some old buried seeds (CSM)
- How the U.S. Government Borrows to Fund Its Massive Budget Shortfall (WSJ)
- These researchers are tracking the impact of tariffs on prices in real-time. Here’s how retailers are responding (WSJ MarketWatch)
- The Value of Life is Too High
- Supply Chain Resilience Is More Important than Ever
- An ‘S.N.L.’ Secret Weapon Retires After 50 Years (NYT)
- Using AI: Queries, Conversations, and Projects
- The Effects of Labor Cost Increases on Retail: Evidence from 52 Local Minimum Wage Hikes
- Political Control Over Redistricting and Partisan Balance in Congress
- When pop music went supernova
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson