Category Assorted Links

• The Employment Situation - April, 2025
• Employment Cost Index - March 2025
• Countries with which US runs big trade deficits aren't the same as the ones who lend to and invest in the US
• Majorities of Americans Support Several - But Not All - Types of Foreign Aid
• U.S. Army Plans Massive Increase in Its Use of Drones (WSJ)
• Beijing Doesn't Want America to See Its Trade-War Pain (WSJ)
• Kyle Harper on the Roman Industrial Revolution
• Tariffs are Already Stalling the Economy
• Scientists Summon Lightning With a Drone
• A Baltic beacon for freedom in Europe (CSM)
• Colleges Know How Much You're Willing to Pay. Here's How. (NYT)
• What Do College Students Do All Day? The Answer Isn't Studying
• Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery
• The many fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will'
• Could Apple Exist Without Its Ties to China? Probably Not. (NYT)
• What the Most Essential Terms in AI Really Mean
• Small and Medium-sized Businesses' Expectations Concerning Tariffs, Costs, and Prices
• North American bird populations suffering severe decline
• Parsing Out the Sources of Inflation
• A Simple Plan to Address Social Security Insolvency
• Unrewarded Cooperation
• Labour taxes edge up in the OECD as real wages recover in 2024. Also see Taxing Wages 2025: Decomposition of Personal Income Taxes and the Role of Tax Reliefs
• Defense Primer: Strategic Nuclear Forces
• Gregg Popovich retires as Spurs coach after remarkable run of success (Wash Post)

• U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter as Imports Surged Ahead of Tariffs
• Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country (NYT)
• US-China Tensions, US Partisan Conflict and Global Oil Prices: Scapegoating or Following the Flag or both?
• The Russian Military Moves That Have Europe on Edge (WSJ)
• Scaling Like Alexander the Great: When Systems Break Empires
• A tiny tribe wanted to shape the future of a famed canyon. Ancient DNA helped. (Wash Post)
• Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy
• The U.S. Eliminated Measles in 2000. The Texas Outbreak Could Upend That (WSJ)
• Revolutionizing Risk: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Risk Management, Forecasting, and Global Implementation
• Tolkien Against the Grain
• Should We Worry About Global Imbalances?
• The 35 definitive rules of train travel (Wash Post)

• First, They Came for the Software Engineers…
• BYD Keeps Delivering on Tesla's Unkept Promises
• Realizing America's Drone Revolution
• Russia is Preparing for More
• U.S., Mexico agree to new deal that sends water to South Texas
• One in six people live in Sub-Saharan Africa, but it accounts for two-thirds of global extreme poverty
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50
• Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim
• Inside China's machinery of repression - and how it crushes dissent around the world
• What is really takes to migrate COBOL, and why DOGE will fail
• The Mathematically Funnest Way to Gamble
• The East-West Divide of the U.S. Fentanyl Crisis and the Decline in Manufacturing Employment
• The Rise of China and the Global Production of Scientific Knowledge
• Gross Domestic Product, 1st Quarter 2025 (Advance Estimate)
• Could Trump's Tariffs Replace Income Tax for the Bottom 90%?
• Why Trump's China Tariffs Mean More Brazilian Shoes
• Investing Amid Trade Wars h/t Kyla Scanlon to whom everyone should subscribe on substack!
• 'A Man, A Plan, A Monopoly?' More History of the Panama Canal
• What Are the Greatest Karaoke Songs of All Time? A Statistical Analysis
• Why 'Margin Call' remains Wall Street's favorite movie - and the best indictment of it

• Why Making an All-American Product is Hard (WSJ)
• How Photography From the Vietnam War Changed America (NYT)
• Most food is transported by boat, so food miles are a relatively small part of the cabon footprint of most diets
• The Causal Effect of Regulations on Economic Growth: Evidence From the US States
• An Anatomy of U.S. Establishments' Trade Linkages in the Global Value Chains
• U.S. agriculture isn't nearing a trade war tariff crisis, it's in a 'full-blown crisis already,' farmers say
• Move Over, Quinoa. There's a New 'It' Crop in Town. (WSJ)
• Satellite launches with mission to 'weigh' the world's forests (Wash Post)
• US Wage Patterns During and After the Pandemic: Insights from a Novel Data Source
• Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?

• The 'Zombie Buildings' at the Heart of the Office Meltdown (WSJ)
• The Downballot's 2024 presidential results for all 435 House districts
• The US revenue implications of President Trump's 2025 tariffs
• Dyspro-what? Why an Obscure Element Has the EV Industry in a Panic (WSJ)
• Productivity and Costs by Industry - Manufacturing and Mining Industries - 2024
• Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2025 to 2034
• Critical Minerals on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Role and Issues for Congress
• A vanished kingdom comes alive in the songs of griots and a new archaelogical dig
• Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired
• New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don't yet live up to their billing. Here is the paper - Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad
• Regional Economic Outlook - Sub-Saharan Africa

• The Spring 2025 Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com Housing Market Ranking.
• Most U.S. States Return to Growth Population growth, that is. But the high is 2.2% and most are well under that.
• "Scientists Don't Yet Fully Understand" These Intriguing New Gravitational Wave Detectors Designed by AI h/t James Pethokoukis
• Are sheriffs easing off traffic tickets to sway voters? New study says yes
• An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months
• Brain scans reveal neural circuitry linked with the subjective interpretation of art
• Who's a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Rome's Ancient Nemises (NYT)
• Back to Tape: Why the Cassette Revival Is Thriving in Argentina's Music Scene. I get the return of LPs, but cassettes?
• Monster tornado on the sun
• Insects are disappearing due to agriculture - and many other drivers, new research reveals

• Supply Shortages Loom as U.S. Shipments from China Plummet (Barron's)
• Complement or Substitute? How AI Increases the Demand for Human Skills
• The 10 Americas: How Geography, Race, and Income Shape U.S. Life Expectancy h/t Adam Tooze
• Xi is Ratcheting Up China's Pain Threshold for a Long Fight with Trump (WSJ)
• Trump's immigration ratings turn negative, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds (Wash Post)
• It is the very model of a silly show-off theater song (Wash Post)
• No More Food Dye in Froot Loops? Not So Fast (NYT)
• The Form Knows Best
• The Impact of Increased Exposure of Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program
• Consumer Survey Results for April 2025
• What Elon Musk Didn't Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too (NYT)
• Law Students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem
• It's 2025. Why doesn't Congress reflect America's population?
• Trump's Job Rating Drops, Key Policies Draw Majority Disapproval as He Nears 100 Days

• Monthly New Residential Sales, March 2025
• What Happens When Everything Becomes a Meme?
• New Technology and Entrepreneurship
• The Eight Tribes of Trump and China h/t David Levey who you really should subscribe to if you have not already.
• Consulting Firms Offer to Cut Up to $20 Billion From Federal Contracts (WSJ)
• The Department of Defense's Breakthrough Nuclear Moment Risks Slipping Away
• FDA's milk testing program pause is not cause for alarm, experts say (Wash Post)
• Are U.S. assets losing their luster? h/t Catherine Rampell
• Trump is crippling the tax police
• Fentanyl-Related Illicit Finance: 2024 Threat Pattern & Trend Information h/t FDD
• Beginner's Guide to Scientific Roadmapping h/t Jason Crawford
• Upside Down CAPM and the trade deficit
• How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space
• Estimating the Effects of Tobacco-21 on Youth Tobacco Use and Sales
• A Matter of Faith
• Share of European Cardinals Declined Ahead of the New Pope Vote
• More Money, More Organs?
• Tariffs, Trade, and the Risk of Recession: A Macroeconomic Evaluation of U.S. Industrial Strategy

The 2025 AEJ Best Paper Awards Have Been Announced. These are the papers that won. Not all were available through AEJ if you are not a member. When I could not access the AEJ, I found a working paper from a different source.

• For Applied Economics, Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work
• For Economic Policy, Adaptation and Adverse Selectcion in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance (Working Paper not on AEJ site)
• For Macroeconomics, Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
• For Microeconomics, Competition in Pricing Algorithms

• AI-Driven Financial Advice Its Impact on Household Financial Decision-Making
• Revised global growth estimates from the IMF
• The Wait Is the Price: Quiet Rationing Plauges Canadian Health Care.
• Cryptocurrency, Macroeconomics, and U.S. Financial Hegemony
• Madison Didn't Predict the Market as the Last Check on Power
• European Defense Readiness: A "Cold War 2.0" scenario analysis'
• Why Florida's Condo Owners Are So Desperate to Sell (WSJ)
• Running on empty: Inside China's quiet pension-funding crisis (WSJ)
• The forgotten Indian explorer who uncovered an ancient civilization
• The World's Most Coveted CeramicsMaker is Closed 348 Days a Year (WSJ)
• Nobody Cares How Fast You Built It
• How a Funeral Director Brought Wind Power to Rural Missouri (NYT)
• A World-Threatening Feeling: Grief, Moral Injury, And Institutional Loss In Rural Courts