For my wedding anniversary, I designed and had hand-woven in Afghanistan a rug for my microbiologist wife. The rug mixes…
Everyone talks about the soaring cost of child care (e.g. here, here and here), but have you looked at the soaring cost of…
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Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less…
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant…
Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages…
By Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page. Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck:…
The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers…
The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada,…
Salamanca still feels part of the orbit of Madrid, but León does not. Many of the faces are more Celtic,…