- Is Air Travel Getting Worse?
- Why Do We Hate Inflation?
- Bad News, But Not Bias: BLS Bean Counters Got It Mostly Right
- In low-income countries, most people work in farming; in richer countries, they work in services
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on How the Invention of Iron Stoves Ruined Society
- Lerner Symmetry
- U.S. and Chinese Economies Holding Up – So Far
- Washington D.C. Crime Offenses Drop Across the Board in 2025
- The Routing Problem
- It’s the Wildest Strategy in World Soccer – and It Might Actually Be Working (WSJ)
- To Study Viking Seafarers, He Took 26 Voyages in Traditional Boats (NYT)
- Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem (NYT)
- Ozempic and Alcoholism: Does It Work?
- Germany is in very deep trouble
- Global ‘mining mafia’ feeds China’s appetite for gold, investigation shows (WP)
- China Creates World’s No. 1 Shipbuilder, Driven by Rivalry With U.S. (WSJ)
- The Era of Big Raises for Low-Paid Workers Is Over (WSJ)
- The Engineering Marvel That China Hopes Will Help Wean It Off Foreign Energy (WSJ)
- Trouble in Russian economy means Putin really needs Alaska talks too
- Does China Underconsume?
- From Tea Party Patriotism to Economic Nationalism: How the Right Gave Up on Small Government
- Learning, AI, and John Searle’s Chinese Room
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson