Anyway, Brad and I then spend a long time discussing what, exactly, America needs to reindustrialize. We come to the ...

My last post was about how for the first time, I’m becoming bearish on China’s continued economic and technological outperformance. A number of people asked me whether I was similarly bearish about ...

Many longtime fans of my Hexapodia podcast with Brad DeLong have been begging us to bring it back. Well, here it is!

When I tell people I’m becoming a China bear, they’re often surprised. “Weren’t you already a China bear?” they ask me. Now, however, for the first time I can remember, I’ve found myself becoming ...

If Democrats are going to translate midterm success into presidential victory — to say nothing of long-term partisan ...

But a lot of MAGA types appear to have believed that America always has some big hidden reservoir of shy Trump supporters out ...

Anthropic recently filed for IPO. At an estimated $1.5 to $2 trillion, it will be one of the biggest IPOs of all time, rivaling SpaceX, and possibly the biggest. For reference, Facebook’s valuation ...

“That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence.” — Q There has never been another television show like Star ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas ...

I’m writing about this a little bit late, but France has been having some pretty bad riots: After widespread rioting at the weekend – estimated to have cost several hundred million dollars in property ...

The basic idea is that even if AI is an incredibly useful technology and creates enormous economic growth in the future, the people building the infrastructure (data centers) might borrow so much ...

I have a Google Doc with a long list of posts I’ve been meaning to write. Far down the list was a line that read “New Keynesian macroeconomics deserves a Nobel”. Somehow I never got around to writing ...