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Nov 18, 2025
Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China, and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise,...
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Nov 15, 2025
I recently attended the excellent Kilkenomics festival in Kilkenny, Ireland. If you ever get the chance to go, I recommend it. Putting comedians and economists on the same...
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Nov 5, 2025
More and more of humanity is going to live in a few big countries that can't manage themselves.
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Oct 30, 2025
Japanese prime ministers tend to be gray, unimpressive placeholders who don’t last very long in office.
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Oct 11, 2025
A few years ago, it looked as if the U.S. and China might battle over global hegemony and preeminence.
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Aug 23, 2025
Adopting foreign technologies is scary, but it's what makes a society rich.
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Jul 28, 2025
During the Biden years, a lot of us thought that the next era of world history would be defined, in large part, by economic and geostrategic competition between the U.S. and China....
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Jul 22, 2025
We often talk about ways in which Japan is ahead of other developed nations; in the old days, people said this about technology, while more recently it’s usually...
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Jul 16, 2025
Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.
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Jul 11, 2025
Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.
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Jun 23, 2025
Analyzing American economic policy isn’t that interesting these days, except perhaps as a grim spectacle. So I’ve been thinking a little about Chinese economic policy....
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Jun 20, 2025
I am not a military analyst or expert. Usually I look at the world through the lens of economics, which I actually have some training in. But if you want to get a good holistic...
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Jun 3, 2025
Let me tell you a story about World War 2. In 1940, before the entry of the U.S. and the USSR into the war, Britain was fighting alone against Germany and Italy. Despite being...
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Apr 7, 2025
I don’t actually think you can defeat Trump’s tariffs by arguing with them rationally, or by explaining economic theory. I mean, how do you argue with something like...
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Mar 15, 2025
Under our Dear Leader President Trump, the United States is hard at work destroying its place in the world economy.
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Feb 17, 2025
That is the clear message of two landmark speeches from the past week — one by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the other by the Vice President JD Vance. Hegseth,...
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Feb 11, 2025
When strategically applied, targeted tariffs can protect national security, boost infant industries and create national champions
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Jan 25, 2025
Reshoring American industry has become a bipartisan policy objective — it has always been part of Donald Trump’s agenda, and Biden cared a lot about it as well.
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Jan 18, 2025
If you looked at Europe in the mid-1600s, you would probably think something along the lines of “Wow, these guys are not going to make it.”
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Jan 8, 2025
No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
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Jan 3, 2025
I’d like some help finding a poem, if any of you happen to know it. I read it when I was a teenager, and I forget who it was by — possibly Louise Gluck. Anyway, the poem...
