Category Assorted Links

• Why Civilizations Collapse
• Remember the Mainframe!
• What do managers do?
• UW-Madison economics professor Kim Ruhl appointed as a member of President's Council of Economic Advisors
• Ukraine's Kursk Incursion: Six Month Assessment (Institute for the Study of War)
• DeepSeek's Lesson: America Needs Smarter Export Controls

• Businesses Have a Lot to Learn From the Impromptu "Teaming" That Happens in the Theater
• A Dual Disruption and the Constant Surprises: Trump 2.0 and Deepseek
• Labour Market Impacts of the China Shock: Why the Tide of Globalisation Did Not Lift All Boats
• Republican and Democratic Opinion Leaders Support Continued US Aid to Ukraine
• Linux kernal tweak could cut data center power usage by up to 30% - You can find the paper here.
• NATO's Emergency Plan For An Orbital Backup Internet
• US foreign aid freeze derails efforts to stem proliferation risks

• Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization
• How Life Aboard A Navy Aircraft Carrier Changed When High-Speed Internet Arrived
• Foundations of International Relations (textbook edited by Stephen McGlinchey)
• A Multipolar World Order: U.S.-China Relations Under a Second Trump Administration
• Why Iran's Regime Is Looking Even Shakier
• DeepSeek: Making Sense of the Reaction - and Overreaction

• Executive Order Imposinig 25% Tariffs on goods from Canada - Still looking for the orders for Mexico and China.
• The Dumbest Trade War in History (WSJ Editorial Board)
• Trump starts to break things
• Ben Golub on possible impacts given what modern supply chains look like
• Singapore's president cites global 'mistakes' as inflation worries World Economic Forum
• Foreign investment in developing economies fell 2% in 2024, marking second year of decline
• Trump imposes new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China in new phase of trade war

• In win for Trump, oil giant Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm
• Non-Western founders say DeepSeek is proof that innovation need not cost billions of dollars
• NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump's orders - apparently this includes grants already awarded.
• Home Sweet Home: How Much Do Employees Value Remote Work?

• Chinese 'artificial sun' sets a record towards fusion power generation
• The Evolution and Economic impact of African American banks in the US from 1900 to present
• Global economic outlook, January 2025 (Deloitte Global Economics Research Center
• What Worries the World - January 2025
• The Russian Economy in the Fog of War

• Parkinson's patient 'feels cured' with new device
• Oh Dear, Did Someone Steal Something From OpenAI? (WSJ)
• Why DeepSeek had to be open-source (and why it won't defeat OpenAI)
• Anticipating Trade Turbulence: Assessing the Economic Impacts of President Trump's Proposed Tariff Scenarios
• Populist Trade Economics and the Political Economy of Populism
• U.S. Economic Confidence Ticks Down as Partisans' Views Shift

• The Executive Order Freezing Federal Spending
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning - The DeepSeek Research Paper
• Does Trump Have the Power to Block Spending That Congress Has Authorized? (NYT)
• The ancient discovery that put a Silk Road city back on the map
• Sweden seizes vessel after new cable breach in Baltic Sea (Wash Post)

• What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market? (AP)
• Germany's Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B (WSJ)
• China's economic performance: New numbers, same overstatement
• U.S. Employee Engagement Sinks to 10-Year Low
• News Aggregators and Competition among Newspapers on the Internet
• United States-China Multilateralism in the Age of Military AI
• Chinese AI lab DeepSeek rattles Silicon Valley

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• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ($2.99)
• The Case of the Dubois Bridegroom by Erle Stanley Gardner ($2.99 or available thru Kindle Unlimited)
• The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson ($2.99)
• Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn ($2.99)
• Conquest: The English Kingdon of France, 1417-1450 by Juliet Barker ($2.99 or available thru Kindle Unlimited)
• The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris ($2.99)
• The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time (Doonesbury) by G. B. Trudeau ($2.99 or available thru Kindle Unlimited)