City walkability as a way to improve one's health.
A general visual reference for when countries are expected to reach population peaks.
Noah Smith (finally) explains why he left Bloomberg.
It can't be said enough: when data is presented in headlines, context matters.
Will the U.S. population shrink in 2025 for the first time?
Is it possible to repair de minimis without getting rid of it entirely?
Rural hospitals are networking with one another to share resources more cost effectively.
A closer look at "The Fed's Independence on Trial".
Don't forget the importance of learning by doing, or "process knowledge". When it comes to economic dynamism and making things, the U.S. needs to pay a lot more attention to the physical world.
This futuristic school has no teachers and no curriculum.
Coppicing is making a return in England.
Texas legislates more housing access, suburban officials say not so fast. Unfortunately they are only following examples set long before now.
Will the president ultimately be in charge of setting interest rates? My thoughts: Even if Trump succeeds in this method of reducing deficit obligations, I question whether these (artificially lowered) interest rates would reduce mortgage costs. After all, lenders understand how artificially low rates violate the (not directly observable) neutral interest rate. A big problem with fiscal dominance is how it seeks to bypass the neutral or natural interest rate.
How much passport power do different nations hold?
Even though abolishing property taxes is a tempting idea, there are dangers involved.
How independent has the Fed been, really?
Markets have been reacting strangely since Jackson Hole. Has gold become the "ultimate safe haven"?
Some long term considerations for beef production.
Britain has some of the safest roads: a brief history of how it got there.
What future costs are likely for the AI building boom? (A visual)
Yes, what foreign tourists spend in the U.S. is also an American export.
January 2025 turned out to be a peak for immigrants in the U.S.
It takes less water now to get a lot of things done.
There's been quite a shift in areas which experience higher or lower birth rates.
What are the current levels of government assistance to immigrants? Alas, I can't help but think of the push to rid the U.S. of immigrants as a disrespectful way to reduce budgetary burdens. This, after disregarding countless respectful ways in recent decades that such burdens might have been addressed.
Advanced civilizations have been known to throw it all away. Could that happen again?
Public school enrollment continues to decline.
The U.S. no longer has the fiscal space that official projections tend to assume.
A closer visual look at Europe's GDP by region.
Protectionist tariffs are getting in the way of reshoring efforts for advanced manufacturing.
Is there a silver lining in societal discontent?
Visualizing poverty rates across Europe.
Some examples of beleaguered statistical messengers. Don't shoot the messenger!
The perceived value of a college education sure went down in a hurry.
Younger people in particular are showing gloomier consumer sentiment.
Once they are broken, complex systems cannot be fixed.
There is such a thing as too much diagnosis, not all diagnosis is helpful.
This year's budget deficit could be the largest of the post-pandemic years.
A closer look at the data indicates how more inflation is still on the way.
Despite all the advances in economic modeling, markets seldom know what triggers bond market vigilantes to come out of hiding. Still, there's already a buyer's strike at the very long end of many bond yields.
It's a different world for food companies now.
And when it comes to assassinations, we're not out of the woods yet.
Trump's base is already feeling tariff pain. More tariffs aren't likely to have the desired effect now.
What were some of the policy differences between the U.S. and Europe during Covid?
Health insurance costs haven't risen this much in 15 years.
FAIT had been designed for a world of secular stagnation and chronically low inflation. But circumstances changed.
The U.S. has a high ranking for electricity use per capita. But Canada is higher.
"Political violence is like a lightning bolt", yet we all make the weather.
The old econ blogosphere is slowly slipping away.
What happens if progressives keep having fewer kids?
Market design was a tremendous success story for food banks.
Don't call it "addressing climate change". Why not call it "the Electrotech Revolution".
What if today's political uncertainties also mean the end of progress?
Culture wars in the U.S. have considerable macroeconomic effects.
Measurement is but a representation of what we seek to understand.
The future has less need for literacy than was the case only recently. What might that mean? And How might we live our lives when machines do a big part of our thinking?
Scott Sumner reviews Breakneck.
When politics are involved, how can the Fed even expect to adhere to a nominal anchor? I can't help but wonder, had the Fed explicitly adopted nominal targeting (instead of just implicitly) at a time when it would have been relatively to do so, would they be caught up in this dangerous political struggle now? After all, if the Fed had made it easier for the public to understand what's at stake, citizens might not be so inclined to shoulder more inflation just so Washington can remain fiscally irresponsible.
Brian Albrecht offers a much needed defense of basic economics.
Transmission capacity is a growing concern for rising wholesale electricity costs.
Outsiders have played an often neglected role in scientific progress. Unfortunately, however, academic professionals are leaving less space for outsiders to participate.
Derek Thompson lists 25 interesting ideas for 2025.
Visual for the portion of European income that is housing burdened.
The U.S. has not been successful at containing Chinese innovation. China especially continues to move ahead in solar power.
It is within our power to take care of what life hands us, one step at a time.
A visual for the state proportions of federal land.
In Argentina, economic circumstance hasn't changed as much as it may seem. and in this instance, U.S. support of Argentina would be a dangerous precedent.
A convincing argument for wage subsidies.
Fortunately, this is a year for record harvests.
Much of the wealth pie remains dominated by Baby Boomers and even the Silent Generation.
The U.S. can't afford to wait to master the technology that now matters most.
The false economy of cutting federal investments in R & D.
What looks like an information problem is actually an infrastructure problem.
A visual for the size of Europe's armies.
Brian Potter takes a closer look at accidental inventions.
Permitting bottlenecks are now sending energy costs higher than expected by inflation.
While China is still dominant in manufacturing, others are starting to catch up.
Some clarification regarding the $100,000 H-1B fee.
"There are no risk-free paths for the Fed."
When will debt stabilization and fiscal consolidation finally begin in earnest? For the U.S. 2030 is desirable, but a delay till 2035 would be far more difficult to successfully achieve. My thought: There's also the chance that if Washington doesn't address this and/or instead forces the Fed to monetize the debt, citizens will pay the price with much worse inflation than experienced so far.
Doughnut Economics does not replace the paradigm it was intended to challenge.
A Chinese American tells stories about her own glimpses into life in China.
Many countries are now burdened with public spending for citizens over 65. Plus, some charts for how their relative income has evolved.
An interesting graph for shifts in U.S. population since 1900.
Much of the present lack in fertility in the U.S. is due to the lack of a college degree.
We're a long way from figuring out a reasonable approach to mental illness and its many issues.
How much has inflation increased around the world in the last five years? Ouch, too much!
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