- Silicon Valley Does the Work; Ireland Books the Exports; But Who Pays the Tax?
- An AI Crash Is a Real Possibility
- Is Progress Sustainable? Mokyr's Nobel Lecture
- The Biggest Housing Bill in 30 Years Is Now Law
- Am I reading too much?
- Nine times faster: the EU wants to double electrification by 2040
- The SCOTUS Tariff Windfall for China
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Ramblings From Benson
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Ramblings From Benson
Category Assorted Links
Assorted Links for Friday, July 24, 2026
Created: 2026-07-21 Tue 08:43
Assorted Links for Thurdsay, July 23, 2026
- Cai Fang's prescription for AI job disruption in China
- How Predictable Are Laws
- The First Wave Left with Conviction. The Second Wave Just Drifted
- JD Vance, Amateur Social Scientist
- ICE is Trump's Standing Army Now
- U.S. Reputation as a Reliable Partner Takes a Hit
- Megacities Are Booming
- Debunking Misinformation from the Oil Bulls
Created: 2026-07-21 Tue 08:41
Assorted Links for Wednesday, July 22, 2026
- AI Chip Regulation Is Not a Dystopian Surveillance State
- The Confidence and the Contradiction
- Surprising facts about the slave trade
- What does the Odyssey teach us about European Patriarchy?
- U.S. Reputation as a Reliable Partner Takes a Hit
- Few People Abroad Approve of Trump's Foreign Policy
- Electric cars are taking off quickly in Latin America
Created: 2026-07-21 Tue 08:33
Assorted Links for Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Assorted Links for Monday, July 20, 2026
- India and China's discourse: A Thaw and Its Online Discontents
- Evidence of 'Greedflation'?
- Cyclical Construction and Gluts
- Keeping Cool: The Air Conditioner That Changed America
- The New England Beige Book
- How Much Does Federal R&D Pay Off?
- China's Property Slump Can Curb Growth for Years, Even Without a Banking Crisis
- The Last Ten Per Cent
- A Better Thermometer for the Wrong Fever
- Global Vaccine Progress Is Stalling
Created: 2026-07-19 Sun 06:45
Assorted Links for Sunday, July 19, 2026
- Why Reading Matters
- How Much Will Oil Prices Spike in a Hot War?
- New York City's Insane Property Taxes
- Begun the Token Pricing Wars Have
- The Perfect Economic Storm
- Division of Labor is Saving Lives
- The Shallow, Centralized American State
- Confidence in U.S. Institutions Remains Near All-Time Low
- Suddenly, Hormuz is Less Crucial Than It Was
Created: 2026-07-18 Sat 07:29
Assorted Links for Saturday, July 18, 2026
- Debt Is Not a Free Lunch
- A new risk frameword for Chinese technology products and investments
- Americans Continue to Pay More for a Postal Service That Delivers Less
- Revenue Cycle is Beneath Me
- Welcome to the Quagmire
- No, Not Those Goths
- The heat pump sceptics just endorsed air conditioning
- I have never been working class
- Lucas' Laws of Project Management
- Built for a Churce That No Longer Exists
- The American suburbs are better than you think
Created: 2026-07-17 Fri 07:38
Assorted Links for Friday, July 17, 2026
- Lean, Mean, and Norwegian
- Are Frontier Models Good at Ethics?
- The Trump Administration's Existential Threat to Scientific Research
- The Quiet Tax on Your Savings
- 8 of the Most Expensive Foods in History
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Shape Rotators
- Is the Fed Taking it Too Easy on Bank Enforcement
- Restaurant Puzzles
- How Global Population Growth Is Slowing
- Immigration Makes up Most of the U.S. Population Growth
Created: 2026-07-16 Thu 07:47
Assorted Links for Thursday, July 16, 2026
- "Joey, Do You Like Movies About Apocalypses?"
- Europe's electrification rate has been stuck at 23% for a decade. The Commission finally has a plan.
- The Denomination That's Half Evangelical, Half Black Protestant - And somehow holding together
- Mega-Prison Politics
- IMF Downgrades Global Growth Forecast Second Time in a Row
- The Crazy Uncle Trump Effect
- I Was Wrong About Fertilizer in Africa
- How I Use AI as a Policy Researcher: HTML Divs, Git Diffs, and Elaborate Rehearsals
Created: 2026-07-15 Wed 08:50