Friday, May 30, 2025

What happens to natural gas prices when weather is mild?

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WSJ : U.S. natural gas futures were down for a third straight session as low weather-driven demand looks set to last into the first days of ...

Trade with China created US jobs

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WSJ: The Real Story of the ‘China Shock’ The jobs harm was largely local and temporary, while overall jobs and consumer welfare increased. ...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

Why central economic planning worked so well for America in WWII but so badly almost everywhere else—most notably in the Soviet Union

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From Bastiat's Window : The answer is right out of Chapter 1, "incentive alignment." ...the key to that success (versus the ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

WSJ: Why EU lags US in tech.

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Someone at the WSJ read Why the U.S. Produces More Unicorns than the EU Limited Presence of Major Tech Firms :  Apple's market cap ...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Why the U.S. Produces More Unicorns than the EU

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The United States has produced about twice as many unicorns (private startups valued at $1B+) as China and more than four times as many as...

Should professors--but not their students--use chatbots?

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NYTimes : Ella Stapleton said she was surprised to find that a professor had used ChatGPT to assemble course materials. “He’s telling us no...
Friday, May 16, 2025

How to raise kids in the age of AI

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FreePress : AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready? ...If you raise your children with the uncritical expectation that if they...

Too many Superheros?

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How much content should a franchise produce? A recent WSJ story indicates that the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is approaching...
Monday, May 5, 2025

The best tariff threat is one you do not have to use

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Following up on an earlier post, Reciprocal tariffs as a tit-for-tat strategy in a repeated prisoners' dilemma   From NY Times : Trump i...
Saturday, May 3, 2025

The price of "free" healthcare is the wait

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  While healthcare in Canada's single-payer health care system is technically free, its real price is measured in wait times.  In 2023,...