A repost, with some extra magic.

And...should they?

In which Kate Raworth summarizes many leftish criticisms of economics.

Some places want to build. Maybe we should just let them.

The industries you need for national defense are also the industries you need for manufacturing...everything.

The Trump administration goes after Asian immigrants.

A timely repost, with some updates related to recent events.

Giving credit where credit is due.

Progressives discovered a seemingly invincible weapon. One day it stopped working.

Your neighbor is not your enemy.

We are bound together by shared culture, not by online memes about "heritage".

The beatings will continue until someone comes in and fudges the data.

Cash benefits; The college shakeout; Chinese involution; The UK's energy bust; Turkey's central bank; Tariffs

Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right?

In which Dan Wang offers a compelling theory of China vs. America.

Taking a quick break from economics.

Adopting foreign technologies is scary, but it's what makes a society rich.

Winning elections is important. But so is serving the people.

A repost of one of my favorite essays that I've written.

We need a few more of them. How can we get them?

The antitrust progressives are just wrong about this one.

AI and jobs; Bernie's bad chart; Personalist leaders and growth; AI vs. trolls; Chinese transshipment; marriage facts

mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Learning about the immigrant experience by reading graphic novels

A guest post by Prakash Loungani and Karan Bhasin.

This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.

Poor countries have to get rich somehow. This is the tried-and-true method.

If the Chinese Century underwhelms, it'll be partly due to a single man.

To some degree, yes. But what they really need is a development state.

It was always bound to happen.

ICE backlash; progressive bumbling; antisocial Americans; bad inflation data; the Roaring 20s; AI politics; China vs. America

An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to China's rise.

Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.

Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.

U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial crisis; macroeconomics vs. microeconomics;

A repost from the Noahpinion archives, with a few updates.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.

Between new technology and low fertility, our existence as a species is not going to be the same.

One of my favorite writers has joined Substack! Let's see what he has to say.

China is paying its national champions to fight each other to the death.

The authoritarian advantage is hype. But China is the real deal.

This is still the country I grew up in.

We used to be able to spread out. Now we're locked in with each other.

Government efficiency; Solar power; Data suppression; American wealth; Trade and manufacturing

I've been writing about this for a while.

Instead of moral problems, let's think of things like obesity as technological problems.

A Ukrainian drone attack shows our extreme vulnerability.

Before you criticize something, at least try to understand it.

Another common economic narrative that's out of date.

Some thoughts on the future of the media.