Category Assorted Links

• A New Meatpacking Plant's Novel Pitch to Attract American Workers (WSJ) - Plant is in North Platte, Nebraska
• Win-Win Denial: The Empiracal Psychology
• Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World (Part 2)
• A Consensus Statement on Potential Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use on Adolescent Mental Health h/t Cal Newport
• The real issues facing the Social Security program aren't inefficiency or fraud
• MAGA Will Devastate Rural America
• The 2025 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age And Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds
• How New Zealand invented inflation targeting. See, also, New Zealand: The Birthplace of Inflation Targeting
• Visualizing Protectionist Luxembourg
• American Views on Economic Leadership
• Central Bank Independence

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• Poland by James A. Michener ($1.99)
• The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison Salisbury ($2.99)
• With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life by Lynn Haney ($2.99)
• Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz ($3.99)
• Roman Conquests: North Africa by Nic Fields ($1.99)
• Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern by Ernst Breisach ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Hollywood Myths: The Shocking Truths Behind Film's Most Incredible Secrets and Scandals by Joe Williams ($2.99)
• War by Bob Woodward ($3.99)
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1970-1914 by David McCullough ($3.99)
• The Desert War: The classic trilogy on the North African campaign 1940-1943 by Alan Moorehead ($0.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

• There is no capital flight out of the US
• Shifting World Order Threatens to Expand the Nuclear-Arms Club (WSJ)
• How to Read This Chart - 1946 Version (Wash Post)
• Why is Scandinavia the Most Gender Equal Place in the World? (Part I)
• The American Dream is Alive and Well, But We Could Be Doing Better
• Lecture Notes: Lash, Cash, & Cotton in the Imperial-Commercial and Early Steam Power Age
• You say 'silo' as if it were a bad thing…
• 21 thoughts on Trump's war with Iran
• Interest on Reserves
• Do Not Forget About Ukraine

• The Big Questions in the Growing Israel-Iran War
• Don't Give Up So Quickly on the Liberal International Order
• China's industrial policy has an unprofitability problem
• US economy faces reckoning as some immigrants avoid workplaces (CSM)
• Not Just Suburban Sprawl - Dense Places Can Still Build
• The World's Best Restaurants in 2025
• Americans Didn't Let Inflation Spoil Their Appetite
• U.S. Forces in the Middle East: Mapping the Military Presence
• How Weight-Loss Drugs Blew Out the U.S. Trade Deficit (WSJ)

• The Biggest Companies Across America Are Cutting Their Workforces (WSJ)
• Too Much Bad News? News Avoidance on the Rise and the main reasons people switch off the News.
• How the Left Loses its People
• Republicans say they want energy dominance. But will 'big bill' deliver? (CSM)
• Speaking with One Voice: The Growth of CCP-authored News Media in China
• Western democracies are actually pretty good at war
• How Batteries Are Making the Electrical Grid More Reliable
• How to redraw a city
• Four Thoughts on Trump's Hawkish Trun on Iran (NYT)
• This 'Bunker Buster' U.S. Bomb Could Cripple Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (WSJ)
• Juneteenth Could Be a Casualty of DEI - and That's a Tragedy
• How Currency Shapes Global Trade: Exchange Rates, Investment, & Stability

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Deportations
• So You Want to Estimate Markups
• The Rise and Fall of TV Sitcoms: A Statistical Analysis
• Money sent home by international migrants is almost three times as much as global foreign aid
• The AI economy is here

• Outside 'agitators' in protests have a long history - in myth and fact (CSM)
• Russia Steps Up Its Drone Strikes Against Ukraine and Ukrain's infrastructure damage exceeds $175 Billion
• Air "Supremacy" Seems to Have Been Achieved - Its Results Could be Dramatic
• Yes - Tariffs Have Increased Prices and Inflation in the US
• How the Tariffs are Breaking US Trade
• Why are tariffs not lifting US inflation?
• Analyzing results from the Pew Research Center on what sources of news Americans use and trust. Here is the Pew Research Center News Media Tracker.

• Media Briefing: Israel, Iran, and What Comes Next for the Region
• Economists Know a Lot About a Lot of Things
• Putin Has Won: The US Government Now Speaks His Narrative
• In 2024, global military spending reached its highest level in decades
• The Puzzle of Historical Preservation
• Trump's Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (NYT)
• Your Electric Bill Is Rising Faster Than Inflation. Here's Why. (WSJ)
• Say "but yes", not "yes but"
• The Resurgence of Do It Yourself Economics
• The governors' moment
• Cancer death rates in children under 10 years old, United States
• Eight things to know about the 2025 NCAA Men's College World Series field (WSJ)
• Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

• Will tariffs spur innovation?
• Student visas are a critical pipeline for high-skilled, highly-paid talent
• Nostalgianomics, or Economic Amnesia?
• Is Macroeconomics a Mature Science?
• U.S. Inflation Remains Muted, With Limited Effects From Tariffs (NYT)
• Price Indices, Inflation Inequality, and CPI Bias
• ICE Raids Have Sent Latino Shoppers Into Hiding and Big Brands Are Hurting (WSJ)
• First-Ever Images of Sun's South Pole Released by European Mission (NYT)
• Can the Euro ever rival the Dollar?
• Fight Against Child Labor Progresses Again
• Robert Smalls' Civil War bravery jumps off the page. A new comic captures his legacy. (CSM)

• Taxing Capital Gains Only After Realization
• World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War (NYT)
• Everything Feels Like It Doesn't Make Sense
• Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it
• Valencia's flood was a catastrophe. Was it also a crime? (Wash Post)
• Price wars grip China as deflation deepens, $30 for a luxury Coach bag?
• Brian Wilson, Pop Auteur and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82 (NYT)
• The surprising resilience of a smiling salamander and some old buried seeds (CSM)
• How the U.S. Government Borrows to Fund Its Massive Budget Shortfall (WSJ)
• These researchers are tracking the impact of tariffs on prices in real-time. Here's how retailers are responding (WSJ MarketWatch)
• The Value of Life is Too High
• Supply Chain Resilience Is More Important than Ever
• An 'S.N.L.' Secret Weapon Retires After 50 Years (NYT)
• Using AI: Queries, Conversations, and Projects
• The Effects of Labor Cost Increases on Retail: Evidence from 52 Local Minimum Wage Hikes
• Political Control Over Redistricting and Partisan Balance in Congress
• When pop music went supernova