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...
Brad DeLong 1 min read
31 words 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,
Haig Hovaness 1 min read
63 words A look at new research connecting AI adoption to measurable productivity gainsâand what it means for investors
Larry Swedroe 1 min read
17 words AI promises efficiency in offices but its insatiable power needs are making life more costly for communities at large.
Yves Smith 1 min read
19 words Life is about more than GDP
Paul Krugman 1 min read
6 words <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/links-5-12-2026.html"><img src="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-12-at-3.34.16âŻPM.png" alt="" width="235"
Yves Smith 1 min read
11 words Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze 1 min read
11 words Today's Iran war news: Trump is predictably acting as if he is doubling down as criticism from the elites gets much louder.
Yves Smith 1 min read
22 words Starmer's rapid rise and (apparent) fall are symptomatic of a broader trend unfolding across the Davos regimes of the collective West.
Nick Corbishley 1 min read
21 words Big Ag, which has shaped food policies, profits more from "innovations "in food production, processing, and distribution than food security.
Yves Smith 1 min read
20 words A brief, incomprehensible technical note
Paul Krugman 1 min read
5 words Rust 1987
Nicholas Decker 1 min read
2 words A book review
Mark Koyama 1 min read
3 words Trump's Transportation Secretary distracts with a reality show launch as a Trump-linked company launches a $4.8 billion IPO.
Nat Wilson Turner 1 min read
18 words The Iran war isn't the only big, illegal, stupid policy
Paul Krugman 1 min read
10 words 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?
Adam Tooze 1 min read
26 words Many, perhaps in part due to Putin-myth-stoking, think more Israelis are close to Russia than is demonstrably the case.
Yves Smith 1 min read
19 words Private credit has become one of the most talked-about corners of the market, but much of the discussion revolves around the wrong metric.
Larry Swedroe 1 min read
23 words 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...
Brad DeLong 1 min read
37 words Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze 1 min read
11 words <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/links-5-11-2026.html"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-310087" src="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-20
Conor Gallagher 1 min read
11 words 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.
Yves Smith 1 min read
25 words The tech bros are worse than the robber barons ever were â and voters are catching on
Paul Krugman 1 min read
17 words Ashenfelter 1980
Nicholas Decker 1 min read
2 words Rhodes, Sullivan, and Schiffâs chief counsel begin crafting a foreign policy for the capitalist class and new messaging for the proles.
Conor Gallagher 1 min read
21 words Ruthlessness and machismo will only get you so far in a technological world.
Noah Smith 1 min read
13 words Does an increase in bilateral trade reduce the probability of militarized conflict?
Conor Gallagher 1 min read
12 words 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
Brad DeLong 1 min read
27 words Open your favorite business paper or news site right now and you will be confronted with a scene of spectacular cognitive dissonance.
Adam Tooze 1 min read
22 words Interrogating the conventional wisdom that Europe is lagging America
Paul Krugman 1 min read
9 words <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/Links-5-10-2026.html"><img src="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/closeup-shot-trichoglossus-lorikeet-bird-perched-branch.jpg"
Haig Hovaness 1 min read
10 words Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze 1 min read
11 words The Man Who Stole the Sun is a movie about ennui and nihilism.
semper loquitur 1 min read
13 words From child labor to incarceration, U.S. laws often treat youth as disposable rather than nurturing their potential.
Conor Gallagher 1 min read
17 words Today's Iran war update: The US and Iran stare at and skirmish with each other as the economy continues to bleed out .
Yves Smith 1 min read
23 words <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/links-5-9-2026.html"><img src="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/00-Tracie-horses.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="172" class="
Yves Smith 1 min read
10 words Today's Iran war news: Iran keeps Trump angrily waiting as recent skirmishes in the Gulf reveal critical US weaknesses.
Yves Smith 1 min read
19 words Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze 1 min read
11 words For real, probably
Paul Krugman 1 min read
3 words That's probably the wrong question.
Noah Smith 1 min read
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