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Economists Against Economics
No, ‘growth’ is not a ‘doomed strategy.’…
Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington
Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, …
Social networks outsmart cognitive biases: How herding in networks makes populations more rational
In 2010, the New York City-based restaurant Serendipity 3 revealed its $69 hot dog, winning the Guinness World Record for the world's most expensive hot dog. Served on a toasted pr…
SES AI: Reinventing The Business, But Not Yet The Economics
SES AI shifts to energy storage, drones, and AI battery materials, but risks, thin margins, and high valuation persist.…
Dating Net Worth
Estimated economics of the dating market, with citations. Collaboration between The Studies Show × Unusual Assets.…
Yext: Poor Underlying Economics And Weak Customer Retention
Yext (YEXT) looks like a value trap: weak retention, eroding economics, no catalysts, and AI spending hurting margins.…
Steam Regional Price Data: fetch 60 regions in one run for $1.05/1K
Quick answer: Steam publishes regional prices on the public store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails...…
Trump threatens tariffs on 60 countries including UK and Canada over ‘forced labour’
Proposal for 10-12.5% levies, to also include EU, Taiwan, Canada and Australia, would allow US president to skirt court-imposed limits Donald Trump has threatened tariffs of betwee…
Semtech: AI Solved The Growth Problem, Not The Economics Problem
Semtech pivots to AI/data-center connectivity, but margins and ROIC lag post-Sierra Wireless. Read here for a detailed investment analysis.…
End of Civilization News
The big AI/math news is the release today of the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. It’s an excellent attempt to identify the new threats to the intelle…
Ardea fine-tunes WA nickel giant ahead of DFS delivery
Ardea Resources has extended its definitive feasibility study timeline past June to include value-engineering upgrades at its monster nickel project near Kalgoorlie.…
How To Win a Trade War? Lose Less Than Your Opponents.
The only winning move is not to play. But if you must, a new book offers some suggestions.…
Scientists are finally moving away from the UN-backed climate doomerism that scared a generation off having babies
Much of the climate anxiety shaping millennial and Gen Z attitudes toward the future was manufactured through exaggerated predictions that are now being abandoned.…
Princeton's Lax Title Shows Fluidity of NCAA Economics
Inside A High End Manhattan Strip Club
An essay on sex work, performance, and the economics of desire…
It’s on Us to Choose How to Use Our Freedom
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence reminds us about political freedom, but there's another important anniversary this year.…
The New Economics of War
Cheap Drones, Asymmetric Threats, and the Democratization of Destruction…
80,000 Hours: The Book
Forty hours a week, fifty weeks a year, forty years: a career is about 80,000 hours. Yet it’s striking how little serious thought goes into career decisions relative to, say, choos…
Arbe Robotics: Brilliant Tech, Brutal Economics (Downgrade To Hold)
Arbe Robotics is pivoting from slow automotive sales to new verticals, but revenue remains immaterial. Read why ARBE stock is downgraded to a hold.…
Who Wants an Unsexy Ferrari?
The new EV from the iconic Italian sportscar maker is so underwhelming it had to be memed.…
Will America keep on trucking? Understanding the new economics of oil shocks
Increased hauling costs often mean a noticeable uptick in price tags for the many goods those trucks deliver.…
The Dollar Was—and Remains—an Accident
As a new book shows, the dollar isn’t really the United States’ currency, but a 500-year-old relic.…
Bitcoin ETFs see record $2.8B outflow amid macro uncertainty
Bitcoin ETFs saw a record $2.8 billion outflow, indicating low confidence; Bitcoin under $66,000 by May 30, 2026 at 0.1% YES.…
The Big Problem With Economics Is Macroeconomics
The great Warren Brookes (1928-1991) joked in The Economy In Mind about the return of an economist from overseas, and a quip from a U.S. Passport official about perhaps not letting…
The Anti-Business Economics of Ken Paxton
We are sometimes accused of being “too Republican” on these pages, so let us take a swipe at a fast-rising Republican, Ken Paxton. Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, is now the…
Are we undermeasuring inflation for lower earners?
We document a new source of fluctuations in inflation inequality. When the cost of upstream inputs rises, varieties within a product category tend to have similar absolute price in…
Palantir Is Starting To Break Software Economics
Palantir is transitioning from a traditional SaaS model to a foundational AI infrastructure platform. Find out why PLTR stock is a Buy.…
SaaS founders!! what stage of your startup journey did you start worrying about unit economics?
Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding?
Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.…
The End of Free Tokens
In 2018 I took an UberPool across Manhattan for $1.78, cheaper than the subway. Today the same ride is about $20 and nobody is surprised. Last month ccusage estimated I burned $5,0…
Should You Be Allowed To Sell a Kidney? Economist Explains 'Repugnant Markets'
Alvin Roth, Nobel Prize–winning economist, wants us to think more about how controversial freedoms can become commonplace.…
I don’t trust my company’s HR department. Is my scepticism warranted?
Not all human resources teams are the same, and not every human resources manager automatically sides with management.…
How to Eat Well on the Cheap
From someone who knows.…
Dario Amodei warned of an AI white-collar bloodbath, now he's changing narrative
The Anthropic CEO is sounding more open to the idea that Jevons Paradox—new technology creating more demand and more jobs—is possible with AI.…
Losing A Team Can Tear The Heart Out Of A Community, But At What Price?
Are ballparks worth the investment of public dollars? Each community has to decide whether hosting professional sports is a wise investment of their taxes.…
RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI.…
A Flawed Minimum Wage Study Shows How Bad Stats Get Turned Into Policy Gospel
A 2024 paper claimed higher minimum wages don't kill jobs. It was statistically significant—and almost certainly misleading.…
How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets
Economist Alvin E. Roth discusses the moral limits of markets, how bans create black markets, and why harm reduction works better than prohibition.…
A Bull Case Against Mark Perry's Chart of the Century
What the movies teach us about recessions, memestocks and gold
The Indicator hosts Adrian Ma and Wailin Wong discuss their favorite econ and business movies.Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.Your Next Listen —Before La La Land, there was Fort Lee…
Modeling Agentic Technical Debt and Stochastic Tax: A Standalone Framework for Measurement, Simulation, and Dashboarding
Agentic AI systems combine probabilistic reasoning with delegated action through tools, context, memory, orchestration, and external workflow integration. This note develops a form…
The AI Decoupling
Old data, new models…
Economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, the two 'Frenchies' campaigning to tax the fortunes of California's billionaires
California's 250 billionaires have amassed staggering wealth while paying very little in taxes, the two French researchers criticized in an op-ed for the 'New York Times.' They sup…
Taiwan Semiconductor plans 15% price hike for 3nm chips in H2 2026
TSMC plans a 15% price hike on 3nm chips in H2 2026 as AI demand outpaces supply. Here's what it means for tech, crypto mining, and investors.…
Overview and Comments of Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI
His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI. At eighty two pages of length. • The full Magnifica Humanitas can be found here. ……
Vizsla Silver: Exceptional Economics, Rising Risks
Vizsla Silver boasts world-class economics at its Panuco project, with an NPV exceeding $3.1 billion at $53.25/oz silver. Read my latest analysis of VZLA stock.…
The Causal Effect of Income Is (Often) Zero
Evidence on the effect of income on health, education, crime, and child outcomes from lotteries and RCTs…
Nebius: Consider The Unit Economics And You'd Be As Bullish As I Am Too
Nebius (NBIS) remains a Strong Buy, with a 170% rally since my initial call justified by resilient GPU rental pricing and robust execution.…
Money Talks: The Freedom of Constraint
Author David Epstein breaks down the powerful effect of limitations.…
A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data
My latest paper, A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books, with the excellent Tim Groseclose, has just been published. The Coase Conjecture is another one of…
Why East of Eden, Not the Grapes of Wrath, Is Steinbeck's Masterpiece
Why East of Eden, Not The Grapes of Wrath, is Steinbeck’s Masterpiece…
The corporate tax rate really matters
Three findings emerge. First, improvements in aggregate tax competitiveness are positively and significantly associated with real GDP per capita growth, robust to a wide range of c…
Representation Without Control: Testing the Realization Effect in Language Models
Large language models are increasingly used as behavioral simulators, but it remains unclear when their outputs reflect human-like cognitive mechanisms rather than prompt-sensitive…
AI Economics Part 2
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Are smartphones to blame for declining birth rates?
There’s nothing quite like a graph to capture the public imagination. Ever since the Covid era, in which viral dashboards featuring flawed cross-country comparisons were all the ra…
The carousel trade (arbitrage)
Imagine two companies which are secretly controlled by the same people. If company A imported some phones, then sold them to company B, it charged VAT on the deal. If company B the…
Generative AI and the Reorganization of Labor Demand
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to transform work, but less is known about how firms reorganize labor demand as the technology diffuses. Existing research has l…
Show HN: Script to determine when government intervention is legitimate
Government spending monotonically slows growth across 151 countries (power law beats quadratic, R² 0.42 vs 0.39, n=113). If it's a brake, aim it — brake activities only when they i…
How Vibe Slop And Fragile Economics could impact Mega IPO for OpenAI and Anthropic - The American Bazaar
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…