The current $1.5T AI arms race: are hyperscalers building utopia, building dystopia, building digital god, or simply lighting trillions of dollars on fire in a dollar auction? When âfree cash flow...
For decades, the Patriot missile system has symbolized American technological superiority and alliance reassurance. But modern missile warfare is evolving toward saturation attacks, rapid adaptation,
A look at new research connecting AI adoption to measurable productivity gainsâand what it means for investors
AI promises efficiency in offices but its insatiable power needs are making life more costly for communities at large.
Life is about more than GDP
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Today's Iran war news: Trump is predictably acting as if he is doubling down as criticism from the elites gets much louder.
Starmer's rapid rise and (apparent) fall are symptomatic of a broader trend unfolding across the Davos regimes of the collective West.
Big Ag, which has shaped food policies, profits more from "innovations "in food production, processing, and distribution than food security.
A brief, incomprehensible technical note
Rust 1987
A book review
Trump's Transportation Secretary distracts with a reality show launch as a Trump-linked company launches a $4.8 billion IPO.
The Iran war isn't the only big, illegal, stupid policy
If the current state of the world economy is marked by stark cognitive dissonance, if what is not sustainable cannot be sustained, then what comes next?
Many, perhaps in part due to Putin-myth-stoking, think more Israelis are close to Russia than is demonstrably the case.
Private credit has become one of the most talked-about corners of the market, but much of the discussion revolves around the wrong metric.
Turn it up for what?! Prettying the plumage on your stochastic parrot via the âsecretâ work of the LLM âcreativityâ dial. Behind the paywall because I am not at all sure that this is right. But I...
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Today's Iran war news: Trump predictably lashes out as Iran refuses to cede any ground in talks. Xi talks are on, likely a further complication.
The tech bros are worse than the robber barons ever were â and voters are catching on
Ashenfelter 1980
Rhodes, Sullivan, and Schiffâs chief counsel begin crafting a foreign policy for the capitalist class and new messaging for the proles.
Ruthlessness and machismo will only get you so far in a technological world.
Does an increase in bilateral trade reduce the probability of militarized conflict?
J. Bradford DeLong [email protected] :: 2026-05-10 revised from version of 2026-04-28 :: All Souls' College, Oxford :: The 2026 Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History
Open your favorite business paper or news site right now and you will be confronted with a scene of spectacular cognitive dissonance.
Interrogating the conventional wisdom that Europe is lagging America
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The Man Who Stole the Sun is a movie about ennui and nihilism.
From child labor to incarceration, U.S. laws often treat youth as disposable rather than nurturing their potential.
Today's Iran war update: The US and Iran stare at and skirmish with each other as the economy continues to bleed out .
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Today's Iran war news: Iran keeps Trump angrily waiting as recent skirmishes in the Gulf reveal critical US weaknesses.
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For real, probably
That's probably the wrong question.
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