Assorted Links for Friday, January 02, 2026
Created: 2026-01-01 Thu 11:18
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Assorted Links for Thursday, January 01, 2026
Created: 2025-12-31 Wed 09:49
Assorted Links for Wednesday, December 31, 2025
- China's Assault on German Auto Makers
- Bad Democracy Traps
- The most life-changing books, statistically
- Claude in a Game Theory Tournament
- Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department? (NYT)
- The Age of the Strong Dollar
- Antitrust Enforcement Around the World
- AI agents and the 90% problem
- The holy grail of capitalism
- Why AGI Will Not Happen
- There's An AI Bubble. For Real.
Created: 2025-12-30 Tue 09:13
Assorted Links for Tuesday, December 30, 2025
- The Case For Prayer, Even If You're an Atheist
- How cable news fueled the culture war and broke U.S. politics
- How Bell Labs Won Its First Nobel Prize
- Some Snapshots of Global Urbanization
- Conflicts to Watch in 2026
- Ukraine's Impossible Dilemma
- The Surprising Difference Between British and American Christmas Songs
- Reviewing the Tenure File of Charles Xavier
Created: 2025-12-29 Mon 16:17
Assorted Links for Monday, December 29, 2025
- India's binge on Russian oil
- The jobs chart that really has us worried
- GDP is Inevitable
- Unemployment Nears 4-Year High as Job Growth Stalls
- Shaping the Future of Work: Workers' Optimism and Pessimism about AI
- Literal Combat Ships
- Waymo and Tesla's self-driving systems are more similar than people think
- From street strategists to establishment pundits
- Noah Smith is bullish on Indian development
Created: 2025-12-28 Sun 07:52
Assorted Links for Sunday, December 28, 2025
- Gifts in the Workplace
- On Monsters, Men, and Time Horizons
- Charles Dickens on Management and Labor
- Locked In: How Homeownership Limits Mobility
- Comparative Awareness of the Evils of Communism and Nazism
- A Dark Day for Europe
- Scott Sumner in defense of neo-liberalism
- America's Top New Year's Resolutions for 2026
- Santa The Economic Terrorist
- Does 'Avatar' Have No Cultural Footprint? A Statistical Analysis
Created: 2025-12-27 Sat 09:21
Assorted Links for Saturday, December 27, 2025
- Economics of the Attention Economy
- Architecture for a democracy
- Feeding America is getting harder next year
- Predicting the Next Christmas Hit with the Radio
- Charles Dickens on Seeing Poverty
- Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort the American Diet
- How Does Japan Sustain Such High Government Debt?
- How Japan can escape its debt overhang
- How Many Businesses Are Using AI?
- Don't Jawbone AI Companies
Created: 2025-12-26 Fri 09:22
Assorted Links for Friday, December 26, 2025
- How Accurate Are Learning Curves?
- 2025: A Jewish Perspective - from someone old and on the right
- Why Europe should resist the Second China Shock
- 2025: The Year of Maximum Incoherence
- Faith Based Sciences
- None of your beeswax!
- The Amateurism of Bari Weiss
- The next revolution in neuroscience is happening outside the lab
- American Holiday Essentials
- A Not So Silent Night: America's Holiday Favorites
Created: 2025-12-25 Thu 13:06
Assorted Links for Thursday, December 25, 2025
- The Trial of the 20th Century - Alger Hiss, Wittaker Chambers, and Today
- The end of american soft-power? From Coca-colonization to Fanta-ization
- Can a Transformer "Learn" economic Relationships?
- Elect Good Politicians, Not Good People
- The gap between haves and have-nots fell under Biden, but is rising under Trump
- China's Germany watchers take stock of Berlin's uneasy turn
- America has to feel fair
- Core nominal GDP - Why the jobs report is so important
- David Levey's Economic Links
Created: 2025-12-24 Wed 08:40
Assorted Links for Wednesday, December 24, 2025
- China, India, and the Contested Politics of Payments
- The case for progressive austerity
- Rising prevalence of disability is part of COVID-19's evolving labor market legacy
- Economics Links, 12/19/2025
- The Economics and Philosophy of the Cruise Ship
- US-China recoupling in an age of decoupling
- How to end low-wage work forever, Part 2: the FAQ
- On Paperbacks and TikTok
- MAGA's Manly Manufacturing Misfire
- The Appalling Broken Record of Steve Witkoff Stories
- Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing
Created: 2025-12-23 Tue 08:36