Category Assorted Links

• White House still has tariff options even after losing key court case says Golman Sachs (WSJ's MarketWatch)
• Trump's Tariffs Aren't Over, But They Face a Major Challenge
• How Donald Trump Has Remade America's Political Landscape (NYT)
• Why Do the Same Products Have Different Prices?
• Ancient China was less equal than the Roman Empire. Here's why.
• America needs its foreign students
• The Viking Innovation Blueprint: How Ancient Shipbuilders Can Inspire Modern Entrepreneurs
• Exodus of Staff Adds to FAA's Challenges (WSJ)
• Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV?
• HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu (Wash Post)
• Computers of the future
• Brian Albrecht on why Oren Cass is wrong about economic laws
• Washington and the New Energy Revolution: How's it going?
• One Way to Sell Beer in Britain? Buy Into a Soccer Team. (NYT)

• We Won Our Tariff Case! The article links to the actual order here.
• To Win A.I., Go Nuclear via James Pethokoukis
• North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs (WSJ)
• Why we stopped building subways cheaply
• Ukraine/Russia War Developments Links from David Levey.
• Poland's GDP per capita has more than doubled since it joined the European Union in 2004
• Putin Has Retooled Russia's Economy to Focus Only on War (WSJ)
• Australia's Skies Glow Orange as Powerful Winds Pull Dust From Parched Land (NYT)
• Inside the Arms Race to Create a Better Lactose Intolerance Pill (NYT)
• How Common is Drug and Alcohol Abuse Among Music Stars? A Statistical Analysis
• Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
• Traveling Sales Reps Share Their Biggest Trade Secret: Bathrooms (WSJ)
• What is a '996' work culture, and why are young professionals in China giving it the cold shoulder? (WSJ's MarketWatch)
• Please shut up - if you're trying to make money in the stock market (WSJ's MarketWatch)
• Scott Sumner on overlooked films
• We Made a Film With A.I. You'll be Blown Away - and Freaked Out. (WSJ)
• Hidden Drivers of Housing Markets and Stability: The Role of the Shadow Economy
• All Time Highs. A Good Time to Invest? No. A Great Time.

• The bad science behind expensive nuclear
• Past, present, and future US national debt in relation to GDP
• Sanctioning Russia's shadow fleet
• Paul Krugman on why Europe is stronger than it thinks it is
• Americans Think It's a Terrible Time to Buy a House
• Market Failure - an argument both for and against laissez-faire
• On chemicals and food, RFK Jr. runs up against powerful GOP constituencies (CSM)
• The Vicious Cycle between Demography and War
• These Are the U.S. Universities Most Dependent on International Students (NYT)
• Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.4% year-over-year in March
• Tennis Was Once Ruled by Teenagers. Now, Not So Much. (NYT)
• As many as 19 storms, including six to ten hurricanes, could form this hurricane season according to NOAA (Wash Post)
• Postliberalism's Reluctant Godfather via Ross Douthat
• Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes (NYT)
• It's going to be a hot, muggy, clear skied summer for most of us (Wash Post)
• Everybody's Mad About Uno (WSJ)
• Blue books for finals are enjoying a resurgence in an AI world (CSM)

• The Long-term Dangers of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
• Steel Man not Straw Man when debating
• Angry and Exhausted: How Americans Feel About Race. But black Americans still feel systematically held back. And few Americans see real change after George Floyd's killing.
• Arnold Kling's economic links for 5/26/2025
• John Milton, Eric Weinstein, and the Battle for the Marketplace of Ideas
• Welfare Indicators and GDP
• What Happened in 2024 (via Matthew Yglesias) Analysis of the 2024 Presidential election.
• Across Arab Mideast, a new alignment rises: An axis of cooperation (CSM)
• Pathogens responsible for diarrheal deaths in children
• Nicholas Decker on Marta Prato's work on innovation. You can find her job market paper here.
• Could Quitting the United Nations Backfire?. No one believes this is imminent but still worth a read.
• Trump's tariffs cloud the future of a medical wonder (Wash Post)
• Common Sense and the Marginal Student. From 2010 but still relevant.
• How to Read a Paper
• The latest generational divide: How to hold a phone (Wash Post)
• Scientists find a new particle so small it makes an atom look enormous.
• First human bladder transplant performed at UCLA
• Younger Men in the U.S. Among the Loneliest in West
• Partisan Perceptions and Sentiment Measurement
• The impact of COVID on the price of steel in three phases

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• China's Rise Is Stalling Out
• Why We're Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon (NYT)
• Utilitarianism and Politics
• Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs On (for Now) (NYT)
• The US is not having a Liz Truss moment
• Immigration Is the Only Thing Propping Up California's Population (WSJ)
• Religion as Governance
• Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube to be broadcast into deep space
• Homo erectus from the seabed, new archaeological discoveries in Indonesia
• Why old games never die (but new ones do)

• Cold War lessons for an Age of Superintelligence
• The fiscal equivalent of war
• Animals as chemical factories
• Foreign Students Make Up 27% of Harvard's Enrollment
• Three Years of War in Ukraine: Are Sanctions Against Russia Making a Difference?
• They're 15. Wait Until You Read Their Newspaper (NYT)
• Interest in Politics Often Ranks Low
• A deadlocked Supreme Court rejects religious charter schools - for now (CSM)
• What to Buy Her House in Ireland? You'll Need $7 and Some Luck (NYT)
• Gasoline Prices Haven't Been Cheaper to Start a Driving Season Since 2020 (WSJ)
• Trump plan for fast-tracking nuclear power takes aim at regulators (Wash Post)
• Seriously deep sleeper not woken up by ship crashing in his garden
• What a Decent Budget Would Look Like
• Comback college: How Morris Brown kept its doors open (CSM)
• The Common Sense of Bayesianism
• After More Than a Century in Skorts and Skirts, Ireland's Camogie Allows Shorts (NYT). 121 years to be exact.
• How the Pacers Pulled Off the Most Mind-Blowing Comeback in NBA History (WSJ)

• Why California Gas Prices Are the Highest in America
• Dumb Evidence for Dumb Ideas - using Golden Dome as an example.
• Which companies are ahead in frontier innovation on critical technologies? Comparing China, the European Union and the United States
• How to Find Ancient Assyrian Cities Using Economics
• Believing in order to Belong

• David Levey's curated links to economics blog posts Everyone should follow him.
• Federal funding for science at lowest level in decades (NYT)
• Japan and the Birth of Modern Shipbuilding
• U.S. Debt is on Pace to Set a Record High, Going All the Way Back to 1790 (NYT)
• What Are the Most Influential Films in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis
• The China Shock
• World Press Freedom Continues Decline at a Time of Upheaval
• Excellent curated list of interesting links from Arai Babu
• Universal's $7 Billion Theme Park Sparks Arms Race With Disney (WSJ)
• The Evidence That a Million Americans Died of COVID
• The Level of Debt and Interest Rates
• What happens if investors lose faith in America?
• Breakdown of costs for a tee shirt
• US State-Level Abortion Regulations: Causes and Effects

• Most Voters Have Concerns Over Trump's Qatar Plane
• Who Trades Most with the U.S. in the Middle East?
• Scott Sumner on the AI macroeconomist and it's implications for current practitioners
• David Levey on the Moody's downgrade
• The SignalFire State of Talent Report - 2025. Tech's talent gap widens and new grad hiring plummets.
• Famines kill far fewer people today than they did in the past, but remain a major threat
• Bryan Caplan on Government (Absurdly Overrated)
• Kyla Scanlon applying The Screwtape Letters to economics
• Inside US Air Traffic Control: Conflicts of Interest and Absence of Oversight
• Plastic's Quiet Role in Defeating Poverty
• Could the Growth of Private Credit Pose a Risk to Financial System Stability?
• A tax strategy for the new tax system (if passed) via Reason
• Kris Abdelmessih on Commencements
• The Work of Andres Rodriguez-Clare
• A Liz Truss Moment for America?
• Beyond Caste: How Migration Enables Love & Economic Prosperity!
• Julia Azari explains why we're learning the wrong lessons from Biden's decision to run in 2024
• The Global Rise in Long-Term Yields
• Earth's major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says (Wash Post)
• Streamers Are Finally Making Money. For Consumers, It's Getting Messier. (WSJ)
• Magnus Carlsen vs. The World: chess grandmaster's 46-day game against 143,000 players ends in draw (NYT's The Athletic)
• How Indigenous groups in Brazil are using virtual reality to reclaim their stories (CSM)
• Where should new cities go?
• The end of an era that I didn't even know existed (Wash Post) I knew about the show in the abstract but I had never watched it and had no idea how long it has lasted.
• Major newspapers ran a summer reading list. AI made up book titles. (Wash Post) Seriously, haven't we learned by now to fact check these things?
• In a First, a Story Collection Wins the International Booker Prize (NYT)
• Theater to Stream: The Tony-Nominated 'Yellow Face,' 'Vanya' and More (NYT)
• An ode to drywall from Yassine Meskhout
• Trump's Take on Taiwan
• The surprising factor that's driving up home-foreclosure rates (WSJ's MarketWatch)
• Update on the Military Base Realignment and Closure Process
• The US has a new most powerful laser
• British soldiers make Everest history using new method
• Jupiter was formerly twice its current size and had a much stronger magnetic field, study says