Category Assorted Links

• A tale of regulation
• A Tax By Any Other Name: Equity Stakes, Tariffs, Government Debt
• The Chaos Game
• EU explained in 10 minutes
• Debunking the myth of central bank gold buying
• Women's professional rise is good, actually
• No, Ronald Reagan Didn't Love Tariffs
• Inside China's Giant AGI Wiki
• Revisiting the Common Ownership Hypothesis
• How China Remade Global Trade - and Then Broke It
• Open Societies Are Stronger Than They Appear
• The Biggest Exporters of Beef in the World

• Tribal Markers
• How sanctions can crush Russia
• Pasta Powerhouses: The Global Trade With Noodles & Spaghetti
• Where Pasta Is Often (or Rarely) on the Menu
• A note on tariffs from the real world
• Reading: W.E.B. DuBois: Of the Training of Black Men
• Where next for markets after the gold rush
• Sanctions, Sanctions, Sanctions?
• Our age of kings
• when quitting is ambitious
• The Fed Information Effect: An Old Perspective (Revisited)
• Spermanship

• Contestability matters more than concentration
• Whic h Nations Are Considering Electric Vehicles?
• BYD Surpasses Tesla to Become EV Market Leader
• Tesla's Year-To-Date Profits Down by 37 Percent
• Turn Post Offices Into Data Centers
• The Market Impact of Russia Sanctions
• Veteran commmentator slams Chinese media's meaningless "transformation"
• The Business of the Culture War
• Dual Collapse
• The Great Feminization Hasn't Gone Far Enough
• What Does AI Mean for Virtue?
• There's a better way to allocate H-1B visas

Assorted Links for Sunday November 2, 2025
Korean Shows are Netflix's Most Popular Non-U.S. Hits
People Listen to Public Health Authorities
Transgender Identity Really Has Fallen Among Young People
NASA (and moonshot 2.0) is in meltdown mode
On the Surface, the U.S. Economy Looks Better than Its Fundamentals
The New US Sanctions Move Actually Protects Russia For Now
Deflationary Pressure builds in China
The forgotten politics of "big tobacco"
Argentina and Rural America's Awakening
Jews, Media, and Politics
The next revolution in biology isn’t reading life’s code — it’s writing it
Four Ways You're Living Better Than Ever

• Don't Invade the Heartland
• The U.S. Economy is in Worse Shape Than it Looks
• Demonstrating Impotence
• Is China a Rising Hegemon
• You Should Make Good Arguments for YIMBYism, Not Bad Ones
• Does Economics Flip-flop on the Minimum Wage?
• Has Music Gotten More Political? A Statistical Analysis
• The Kids Can't Focus
• Marijuana Policy in a Fragmented Legal Structure
• The genius of the amateur
• Which Streaming Services Are the Most Expensive
• Youtube Leads TV Streaming in the U.S,

• To See the World For the Wars
• The Nobel Prize-winning case for a little bit of monopoly
• How US incompetence empowers China in Latin America
• Are Aghion and Howitt Right About Competition and Innovation?
• Ordoliberalism as a Response to Populism
• The Ambulance-Transport-to-Dialysis Fraud
• In a World Obsessed With Innovation, What If Most of It Isn’t Real?
• The "37% rule": How many people should you date before settling down?
• The World's Most Competitive Tax Systems
• Global Corporate Tax Levels in Perspective
• "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Since 1870, Roughly One-Fifth of the Economy Is Transformed Every Thirty Years
• A Turn Lane in Rhododendron

• Why Delaying Your Social Security Benefits Almost Always Makes Total Sense
• Explainer: EU's Technical difficulties for price undertaking in EV deal
• Xinhua Signals Three Themes for China's 15th Five-Year Plan
• Japan's Debt Crisis
• Repo Market's Warning Light is Flickering
• Immigration: Worth Losing For
• Number of Protests Has Picked Up Since Trump’s First Term
• 85 Percent of Americans Don’t Want Trump to be King
• China's GDP Growth Plateaus Around the 5-Percent Mark
• Are stereotypes often true?
• Knowledge, Decisions, and Incentives
• Steady Data, Shaky Narratives: Why Poll Hype Misleads & Slow Drift Rules in Understanding "Public Opinion"

• Peter Howitt on Coordination
• Does the news reflect what we die from?
• U.S. Drops to Historic Low in Most Powerful Passports Ranking
• Yang Zhenning passes away
• Where Has the National Guard Been Deployed?
• The AI water issue is fake
• Why Manipulation Is "Harder" Than Locomotion
• China's emerging export control regime
• Some Personal GOATS
• China may materially raise pensions for rural residents in the next five yeaars, David Daokui Li and Song Xuetao say
• The New Normal of US-China Economic Warfare
• California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs

• The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Passport
• The Purpose of Life
• More on US Pedestrian Deaths
• Why NASA should go all-in on nuclear propulsion
• Monetary Policy, Uncertainty, and Communications
• Sow a Trade War, Harvest a Farm Crisis
• Professors Need to Diversify What They Teach
• For the First Time, More School Children Worldwide Are Obese Than Underweight
• 22 Million Geniuses - China's Greatest Asset and America's Missed Opportunity
• Mokyr and McCloskey on the Origins of the Modern Economy: Similarities and Differences
• Echoes of Iraq in the Gaza ceasefire
• What caused the Great British Inflation?

• What Are the Best "Bad" Movies? A Statistical Analysis
• Has China Overtaken America? Paul Krugman Thinks So
• Infant Adoption is Now Tragically Rare
• The Countries With the Highest COVID-19 Death Toll
• The (Temporary) End of the U.S. Development Finance Corporation
• China, The United States, and the AI Race
• What Happened with Elon Musk & the "CyberTruck", Anyway?
• No, America Is Not Experiencing Fascism. Yes You Should Still Worry
• Too Big to Bail
• Puzzles in the Global Economy
• The AI boom is propping up the whole economy
• On Peter Howitt's Other Work