Category Assorted Links

1. Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite (WSJ)
2. The Real Ghost of Halloween: Inflation
3. Liberalism As Mob Boss
4. Price Theory and Guilds
5. How NOT to negotiate with China
6. Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
7. US layoffs for October surge to two-decade high, Challenger data shows
8. Chinese molten salt reactor achieves conversion of thorium-uranium fuel
9. EU high-speed rail plan
10. New gel regrows tooth enamel and could transform dentistry
11. In Philadelphia, a young nonprofit buys a century-old magazine
12. Builders Are Offering Mortgage-Rate Discounts. Home Buyers Aren't Biting.
13. The elusive 'hidden people' of Iceland

• Why AI Isn't Ready to Be a Real Coder
• How Life-Size Cows Made of Butter Became an Iconic Symbol of the Midwest
• Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
• When bison have room to roam, they reawaken the Yellowstone ecosystem
• Sulver cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web
• American Wind Farms as an Example for Data Visualization
• What I Learned From Actually Talking to Vendors
• Over 28 million adults now using AI tools to help manage their money
• Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Digital Trade Barriers
• How I analyzed the lineups at the world's most popular nightclubs
• Restaurants Brace for the Demise of the Penny (WSJ)
• YouTube TV's Disney blackout reminds users that they don't own what they stream

• Economic ideas for Takaichi Sanae
• The Desperate Search for Safe Havens
• Synthetic opioids management in Sino-American relations: focus on fentanyl by Zha Daojiong
• The Last Term
• Behavioral Economics and Forced Savings
• Hollywood's Music Biopic Boom: Quantifying the Rise of a Soulless Genre
• We Have Never Been Austere
• Zohran Mamdani Is a Spectacular Own Goal
• Life expectancy has increased at all ages
• Dan Moller's Governing Least
• China, the United States, and a Critical Chokepoint on Minerals
• Gold Returns Head for Strongest Year Since 1979

• Younger Canadians feel homeownership pressure on par with marriage and children
• Shanghai Ranking shake-up: China and Taiwan now have more universities in the top 500 than the US
• A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping
• Princeton NuEnergy Opens First U.S. Commercial Facility
• Tesla, Rivian, and others see billions in revenue disappear as US officially end emission credits
• China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer
• Whistleblower Reveals Colombia's Oil Spill Coverups
• The underwater nuclear family
• How America Got Its Baby Back, Baby Back, Baby Back
• Las Vegas leaders are banking on trees for cooling. The science is complicated.
• There are no entry-level jobs anymore. What now?
• Why so few Americans read for pleasure (WP)

• How the UK Lost Its Shipbuilding Industry
• 16 charts that explain the AI boom
• Shareholder Primacy
• After the Illusory Carnival
• Model City Monday 10/27/25
• The Hunger Games Begin
• Neither Party Dominates in Favorability or Trust
• Russians' Approval of China Firms as Global Order Shifts
• Shocked, shocked
• My One Very Important Thought About the New York Mayoral Race
• The big idea: Let college students buy drinking licenses
• Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

• 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,