Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Category Assorted Links
Assorted Links for Wednesday
- 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.
Assorted Links for Saturday
- 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
Assorted Links for Friday
- 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)
Assorted Links for Thursday
- 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
Assorted Links for Wednesday
- A bunch of thoughts and evidence on immigration
- The latest on AI and business
- US science funding was a bipartisan priority. Now it's a target of federal cuts. (CSM)
- Open Letter from some NIH Staff to Dr. Bhattacharya. The NYT coverage can be found here. The Washington Post has this.
- News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google's New AI Tools (WSJ)
- The Latest Casualty of the Tariff War: Free Shipping (WSJ)
- The bully's pulpit: Finding patterns in Trump's use of military force h/t Daniel Drezner
- The Disappearing Funds for Medical Research (NYT)
- The Risky Mission to Salvage Mike Lynch's Sunken Superyacht (WSJ)
- Why Is Hail Getting So Big? (WSJ) Very important question here in Nebraska.
- NFIB Small Business Economic Trends May 2025 NFIB stands for National Federation of Independent Business if you, like me, did not already know that.
- Iran hawks are disappearing from the Trump administration
- Labor Market Impacts Are Not the Same As Welfare Impacts
- Xi Jinping Braces For Struggle
- On the Political Economy of Mendacity in 21st Century America
Assorted Links for Tuesday
- Our Spreadsheet Overlords h/t Brad DeLong
- Can Large Tech Companies Be 'Bad' for the Economy but Good for Workers?
- It's a Bleak Job Market for New College Grads. These Are the Unluckiest. (Barrons)
- Breaking with Trump, Bacon Says He Won't Follow His Party Off the Cliff (NYT)
- Why Can't We Tame AI?
- Strong Foreign Travel to the US (at least from Europe)
- Nobody Expected the MAGA Inquisition
- A new strategy to fight inflation
- U.S.-India Divergence and Convergence on Defense Operationalization Concepts
- The Dollar's Global Role and the Financing of the U.S. External Deficit h/t Brad DeLong
- A World Without Safe Assets
- The Age Issue: More of Congress Is 70-Plus Than Ever Before (NYT)
- Portugal's roads have become much safer over the last thirty years. You can also check out Death rate from road injuries.
- Gentrification as a housing problem
- The US Tax Code Reduces R&D Incentives
- The Canned-Food Aisle Is Getting Squeezed by Rising Steel Tariffs (WSJ)
Assorted Links for Monday
Assorted Links for Sunday
- Power, Prestige & Ottoman Culture Wars
- The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology (WSJ)
- The US Dollar isn't broken yet
- When They Stop Selling Your Favorite Thing (NYT)
- Corruption in Plain Sight is Still Very Much Corruption
- The Rising Temperature of the Mediterranean Sea
- 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest - and it wasn't ChatGPT (Wash Post)
- A world built on fossil fuels is loud. Here's how advocates are defending peace and quiet
- The US Navy's five roads to ruin
- What's a healthy amount of sleep? It differs from one country to another
- Mapping space: Largest map of the universe announced
- How Ukraine's Operation "Spider's Web" Redefines Asymmetric Warfare
- The Russian Wartime Economy: From Sugar High to Hangover
- Why human experts may be useful for longer than you think
Assorted Links for Saturday
- No one voted for anything Immigration version.
- The End of Silicon Politics
- China's rare earth weapon changes contours of trade war battlefield
- The Global Trend in Indigenous Community Recognition
- Some Economics of Africa's Struggle
- J'accuse - Further thoughts on the Great Recession
- Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people (Wash Post)