ECONOMY

Trump Accounts are a Big Deal

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant…

12 months ago

Amazon’s Robotic Revolution

Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages…

12 months ago

*Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future*

By Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page.  Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck:…

12 months ago

Flying on Frying Oil

The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers…

12 months ago

Of Course We Should Privatize Some Federal Land (but probably won’t)

The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada,…

12 months ago

Some northern parts of Spain

Salamanca still feels part of the orbit of Madrid, but León does not.  Many of the faces are more Celtic,…

1 year ago

Deport Dishwashers or Solve All Murders?

I understand being concerned about illegal immigration. I definitely understand being concerned about murder, rape, and robbery. What I don’t…

1 year ago

Not hard to geoguess this location…

Of course it is not in the state of Virginia… The post Not hard to geoguess this location… appeared first…

1 year ago

Why LLMs make certain mistakes

Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet. The post Why LLMs make certain mistakes appeared first on…

1 year ago

You Can See the End of the Great Stagnation Everywhere but in the Productivity Statistics

Eli Dourado continues to keep his eye on the most important number in the world, total factor productivity. It continues…

1 year ago