Assorted Links for Saturday, October 03, 2026
Created: 2026-10-02 Fri 08:43
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Ramblings From Benson
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Ramblings From Benson
Category Assorted Links
Assorted Links for Friday, October 02, 2026
- Intellectuals, Capitalism, and the University
- China Deploys 59% of the World's Industrial Robots
- Rise of the Robots
- Electric car sales are growing rapidly in Turkey
- A US Federal Budget Chartbook
- Coming to Terms with Massachusetts' Post-pandemic Employment Growth
- 4 in 10 Workers Use AI Every Week, Agents Still Lag Behind
- What Keeps Workers From Using AI on the Job?
- AI Skepticism Outweighs Excitement in the U.S.
Created: 2026-10-01 Thu 07:50
Assorted Links for Thursday, October 01, 2026
- Reviewing Mariya Grinberg's Trade in War
- Which Money Is Warsh Talking About?
- What is driving up US interest rates?
- S-Shaped Utility Curves, Poverty, and Risk-Taking
- What is driving up US interest rates?
- The clinical trial bottlenecks game
- Before You Read the China Deal, Check the 2025 Trumpian Trade Deals
- Retro Revival? Physical Music Sales Surge in 2026
- The (Limited) Scale of the Physical Music Resurgence
- How Americans Listen to Music
Created: 2026-09-30 Wed 09:07
Assorted Links for Wednesday, September 30, 2026
- The 1970s law holding back modern biotechnology
- World More Positive Than Negative on UN's Job Performance
- The problem(s) with utilitarianism
- We've saved the world before: what the ozone hole teaches us about AI
- AI Barrier Grief: Stalled at New Mexico's Frontier
- Foreign aid contributions fell in 2025 amongst almost all of the top 10 donors
- Most People Believe in AI Job Losses, Not Gains
- On Health Care Systems
- The Anti-Social Media
Created: 2026-09-29 Tue 08:40
Assorted Links for Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- China's AI-safety trajectory is not necessarily a delayed version of America's
- Mental Health: The Biggest Health Challenge of Our Time?
- U.S. Teen Mental Health Is Improving After Covid Crisis
- Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are helping Native-Born Workers?
- After a decade of growth, Indonesia has become the world's largest producer of processed nickel
- The Future of Movie Theaters Is Bright (and Also Concerning)
- How AI Helps and Hampers Junior Workers
- Truck drivers could soon be paying over $250 per tank on diesel
- On AI, the Chicago Fed Letter Needs Two Things Nobody Can See
Created: 2026-09-28 Mon 09:46
Assorted Links for Monday, September 28, 2026
- The Religious Behavior Index: How Engaged Are Americans, Really?
- How Is the U.S. Economy Performing?
- How Does Trump Stack up?
- The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar to Fall
- Polanyi Knowledge and AI
- A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.
- The Dollar into the FOMC
- US Energy Data: a new platform to explore American energy, state-by-state
- Europe Policy is Up for Grabs
Created: 2026-09-27 Sun 21:12
Assorted Links for Sunday, September 27, 2026
- Do lobbyists or populists make better trade policy?
- Is Toys R Us a Canonical Example of the Ills of Leveraged Buyouts
- How a single tweet transformed the AI safety debate
- English Departments Have Lost the Plot
- A 5 Percent Wealth Tax Would Destroy a Lot More Than It Raises
- How Texas's "Secret Tax" Hurts Taxpayers
- A $100,000 tax on foreign students means fewer opportunities for American workers
- An Aussie way Forward for the Fed
Created: 2026-09-26 Sat 08:25
Assorted Links for Saturday, September 26, 2026
- When Congress Is Silent, Trump Expands His Power
- What to expect from energy abundance
- Adam Smith's greatest insight?
- Would Beijing Accept Taiwan on These Terms?
- Energy and Carbon Emissions: Some Global Ground Truths
- Dutch Pension Reform Will Steepen the Euro Yield Curve
- Political Power Gap Holds Back Gender Equality Progress
- Nordics Consistently Lead the World in Gender Equality
- The Best Philosophy Article of 2025 is Bad Economics
Created: 2026-09-25 Fri 07:12
Assorted Links for Friday, September 25, 2026
- The State of Democracy
- Americans Largely Dissatisfied With the State of Democracy
- Swarms of AI Committing Crime For Money
- Most people prefer traditional architecture
- The Uses of Homogeneity
- Tariff Inventory
- The non-material consequences of growth
- Economic Size and Economic Power
- Is the Fed Behind the Curve?
Created: 2026-09-24 Thu 08:37
Assorted Links for Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Who is rich in America, and why?
- Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption is Widespread
- Record High 47% Want Unions to Have more Influence
- Why Alberta Doesn't Have Rats
- Costly Medicine
- The NIMBY problem
- I Disagree With The Tax Foundation, Labor Share is Collapsing
- Adam Smith: Rule of Law as the Backbone for Markets
- Don't mix fiscal and monetary policy
Created: 2026-09-23 Wed 07:32