Category Assorted Links

• The trade war hit. These U.S. ports felt the crush of Trump's tariffs. (Wash Post)
• Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years
• Another surge of heat is coming. (Wash Post)
• What is Great Hmong Food? These Chefs Have the Answer. (NYT). Here are more facts about Hmong in the U.S. Omaha has a Hmong community as well but I don't have any info on how big.
• China's AI industrial policy
• The Global A.I. Divide (NYT)
• A Third of U.S. Burdened by Housing Cost
• Teens from upper-income families are far more likely to work summer jobs than poor teens. (WSJ MarketWatch)
• U.S. Home Prices Are up 29 Percent Since 2019
• The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century (All 100) (NYT)
• 2025 The State of the Nation's Housing

• Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear? (NYT)
• 3 long-shot ways to solve the global baby bust
• The first non-opioid painkiller
• The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century (100-21) (NYT)
• Immigrants drive population growth in a graying America, census shows (Wash Post)
• Tesla's Robotaxi Launch Shows Google's Waymo is Worth More Than $45 Billion (WSJ)
• How Much Energy Does Your AI Prompt Use? (WSJ)
• What true political leadership looks like
• Why Does the U.S. Always Run a Trade Deficit? h/t Adam Tooze & Chartbook
• Was the Continental Dollar an Early Failure with Fiat Money?
• Why Are Homes in Western States So Expensive?
• Which Countries Have the Most (and Least) Uplifting Movies?
• I'm an Artist, and I'm Not Threatened by AI
• Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coaltion
• The Hidden Constraints on HOT Lanes
• Openness To Medical Cannabis Is Mostly Fairly Low

• Weathering the Storm: The Hague Summit and the Future of Nato
• The first copyright ruling on generative AI training is a win for AI labs
• Self-driving cars are finally shifting gears
• Where does the word 'soccer' come from? (NYT)
• The US Trade Balance With the EU: The Role of Multinationals
• The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century (100-41) (NYT)
• Remote Work is Reshaping Rural Vermont
• More Homeowners Find Themselves Underwater (WSJ)
• Nearly Two Million Student-Loan Borrowers Are at Risk of Docked Pay This Summer (WSJ)
• Artificial Demand for College
• Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely
• Section 232 Tariffs and the Relentless Rise of U.S. "National Security" Protectionism
• Political Power Gap is Stalling Global Gender Equality
• Program Report: Development of the American Economy
• Information Spillovers Within Couples: Evidence from a Sequential Survey of Spouses

• 15 million missing mortgages
• Iran Attack Signals De-Escalating
• The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century (100-61) (NYT)
• A Family Spent $500,000 on Built-In Cabinets for Those Costco Runs (WSJ). Can that even be recouped?
• The Universe's Darkest Mysteries Are Coming Into Focus (NYT)
• Moody's Downgraded the U.S. Government, Not the Country
• Should Economists Rule the World?
• Solipsism >> Determinism
• A Fed's-Eye View of Labor Markets and the Monetary Policy Report itself.
• The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development (2012)
• What Climate Change Policies are in Action Throughout the World

• 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