- The Cost-Benefit State Is Not Flourishing
- BLS Jobs Report Recap (February)
- Fight Club, USA
- The Country That's Winning Everything Except Its Future
- The Blockade of the Straits of Hormuz
- Many Americans Don't Expect Their Income to Beat Inflation
- Real Wages are Growing! and the Effect Will Soon Be Felt
- In 2025, solar and wind produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union
- Work and Employment
- Are Data Centers Affecting Your Energy Bill?
- A History of Operation Breakthrough
- America's Debt Is a National Security Risk
- A Rising Gap Between Older and Young Workers
- Why organisms are more than machines
- Freak Out!
- The End Of Fed Independence?
- No Taxation Without Physical Location
- BOOM: Unanimous Vote Puts Land Value Tax Enablement on Governor's Desk
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Category Assorted Links
Assorted Links for Monday, March 09, 2026
Created: 2026-03-08 Sun 09:48
Assorted Links for Sunday, March 08, 2026
- Europe's rigid labor markets are an economic death sentence
- Fracking Killed Khamenei
- The Global 5G Divide
- MAGA Misunderstands the Family
- Europe, gas & yet another February war. Aka, "oops … we did it again!"
- AI and Young-adult Jobs: The Real Mystery
- The Status of Stablecoins
- Three Kinds of Fed-Treasury Accords
- A nuclear step forward - maybe
- If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?
- Oil Tanker Traffic in the Straits of Hormuz
- The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It
- Renewable Energy and National Security
Created: 2026-03-07 Sat 10:09
Assorted Links for Saturday, March 07, 2026
- After the Supreme Court Ruling, What Is Next for Trump's Tariffs?
- The Supreme Court Clipped Trump's Tariff Powers-and Opened New Trade Battlefronts
- CFR Poll Shows Americans Across Party Lines Tie Tariffs to Affordability
- What Happens Next in Iran and the Middle East
- The Meaning of Anthropic vs the Pentagon
- Zoning Reform Needs To Be All At Once
- The Quiet Change that Could Unlock a Substantial Amount of Affordable Housing
- Does China have a huge electricity advantage over the United States?
- The Strait Truth
- Fast Fact Check: Does Hep B Vaccination Cause Autism?
- What this week's rise in the Dollar means
- Dreaming of a Blue Texas
- Primary Postmortem
Created: 2026-03-06 Fri 10:40
Assorted Links for Friday, March 06, 2026
- Q4 Update: Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO
- I Believe The Children's Hospitals Are Our Future
- When Rubber Was the Critical Imported Good
- When the blind gain sight, the brain rewires to build a visual world
- A record number of objects went into space in 2025
- The Uneven Burden of Obesity Worldwide
- China's Fertility Decline Is Driven by What Women Want, Not What the Government Permits
- How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion
- BLS Jobs Report Preview (February)
- Japan can be America's arsenal
- China did NOT move "quickly to condemn the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran"
- A scary day in global markets
- Solar in poor countries is creating a huge lead hazard
Created: 2026-03-05 Thu 08:58
Assorted Links for Thursday, March 05, 2026
- The US/Israeli Bombing Of Iran: Means and Ways Without Ends
- Donald Trump, Interventionist
- There Is No U.S. Plan on Iran
- Trump: We have 'unlimited' weapons to fight 'forever' war. Others disagree.
- Consequences of Climate Change
- The Pentagon's bombshell deal with OpenAI, explained
- Monthly Multiplier: EIG's February Highlights
- Another cool paper and more notes on a bad paper on housing supply
- The Stagflation Trap: What the Iran War Means for Monetary Policy
- Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day
- A Massive Shock for Global Markets
- War Is Expensive for the Little People
- An Unplanned War
- Democrats Have Historically Dim View of National Conditions
- Your LLM needs a grandmother
- Why communist reformers always lost
Created: 2026-03-04 Wed 10:36
Assorted Links for Wednesday, March 04, 2026
- Iran Strategy: The "Deep State" at Work?
- Operation Epic Futility
- A scoundrel's last refuge
- All Eyes on Hormuz
- "All Lawful Use": Much More Than You Wanted To Know
- This Is the Best Substack Ever
- Chessboard Flattery: The Art of Making a War of Distraction Look Like Grand Strategy
- Broken Skulls and the State!
- Lessons from the Iraq invasion for Trump's Iran war
- How the CIA and Israel Pulled Off the Successful Opening Leadership Strike on Iran
- War, Oil and the World Economy
- Superintelligence is already here, today
- Oil Prices and Iran
Created: 2026-03-03 Tue 09:00
Assorted Links for Tuesday, March 03, 2026
- Gauging the Impact of Massive U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran
- The Major Questions Doctrine
- Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s
- Response to Sunstein
- China Is Not an Expansionist Power
- After Khamenei: Planning for Iran's Leadership Transition
- Playing the Iran Card: Trump's War of Distraction and the Hypocrisy on Record
- SHEIN Muzzles Chinese Media - Corporate, not government, suppression in action.
- What Iran means for Markets
- The Fashion Counter-Revolution
- How Metrics Make Us Miserable
- Perceptions of Crime and Disorder
- Killing Khamenei: Regime-Change Roulette in a Powder-Keg World
- Not Even Wrong - The Problem With P(doom)
Created: 2026-03-02 Mon 11:39
Assorted Links for Monday, March 02, 2026
- Laying Off Workers: Cheap vs. Expensive
- Many Rare Diseases Affect Women and Men Differently
- Orphan Drugs Are Gaining Ground in the Pharma Market
- Rare Diseases: More Treatments Are Reaching EU Patients
- Freddie Mac House Price Index Decreased in January; Up only 0.4% Year-over-year
- Good things are good
- The Dictator's Dilemma: How a Healthy Economy May Save American Democracy
- An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War
- The USA And Israel Have Started Bombing Iran: A Primer
- AI: High Risk, Low Reward?
- More Artificial Intelligence = Dumber People?
- Education, Technology, and Controversy
- Institutional Investment in Single-Family Housing: Separating Fact from Fiction (h/t Brian Potter)
Created: 2026-03-01 Sun 09:23
Assorted Links for Sunday, March 01, 2026
- What Do Consumers Know That GDP Aggregates Don't?
- The Pro-Housing Plans Aren't Pro Housing Enough
- They've Got You Buying and Selling
- Can Women Walk Home Safely?
- Deforestation is no longer inevitable
- How to get from here to there-way out there, actually
- Does overwork make agents Marxist?
- AI Honestly Assesses Trump's SOTU Lies
- Nvidia's Profit Surge: From Under $5B to $120B in Three Years
- Red Flags with Project Vault
- WTF is Pro-Worker AI
- Country Music Always Comes Back
Created: 2026-02-28 Sat 08:54