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The sense of sadness and despair that many of us who left countries, where science and research were not valued or that simply there were no resources, feel about the wanton and deliberate destruction of US science (a beacon for the world) is immeasurable.

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“[AI coding] has…raised concerns about career development…for junior engineers. Tasks like drafting memos and testing software – once valuable opportunities for learning – are increasingly automated.” www.techspot.com/news/108067-...

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Palisade Research @PalisadeAI: "OpenAI's o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off . . . ."

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Last year Merz called on Scholz to #FreeTaurus & proposed an ultimatum: if Russia didn’t halt attacks on Ukraine within 24hrs, 🇩🇪 should give 🇺🇦 Taurus. Herr Merz is @bundeskanzler now. Russia just launched the biggest air raid of the war. This is long overdue. Send Taurus now.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

When emerging market economies issue local debt, risk shifts to global investors, with duration risk becoming a key channel for transmitting global conditions to portfolio flows, from Carol Bertaut, Valentina Bruno, and Hyun Song Shin https://www.nber.org/papers/w33816

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1/3 In my latest piece for China Reform Imperative, I argue that it is meaningless for banks to provide GDP growth forecasts for China and to vary these forecasts over the year as economic conditions change. This is not how China's economy works. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

1/8 In what has become a pattern, China showed stronger-than-expected growth in industrial output in April and weaker-then-expected growth in retail sales. The former was up 6.1% while the latter was up 5.1%. english.news.cn/20250519/9d3...

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“The influence of Ronald Coase's 1960 paper, ‘The Problem of Social Cost,’ cannot be overstated….His aim…[was] ‘to make clear the role which transaction costs do, and should, play in the fashioning of the institutions which make up the economic system.’” www.law.uchicago.edu/lawecon/coas...

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Maybe tariffs are attacking the wrong problem.

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Dozens of supposedly independent NGOs at the UN have secret ties to China and work to subvert UN human rights investigations into abuses in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, according to findings of a @washingtonpost.com investigation with @icij.org www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

A trip down memory lane…. “Samizdat Is Russia' Underground Press”, NY Times (March 15, 1970) www.nytimes.com/1970/03/15/a...

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Even most of these things I'll never engage in directly, I like to keep appraised of technological progress in military and logistics because government contracts are a major means of diplomacy. Anyways, the Brazilian mil aerospace industry is a legit sleeper. www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOm...

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📉Russia’s in recession, per the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting, founded by Defense Minister Belousov. Industrial output rose 8% in 4 years, but without military production, it’s just 1.2% and falling since late 2023.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

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“Harvard…Professor Stefanie Stantcheva won the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal young economist award for her work…impact of taxes & subsidies on private decisions.…One of Stantcheva’s most important contributions addresses the effects of tax policy on innovation’”…. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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“[D]eindustrialization was a global phenomenon…after 1980, poor countries suffered a process of relative deindustrialization just as intense as that experienced in more advanced economies…due to the same primary cause: the emergence of [industrial China]” americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/11/the-...

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“[Appellants in] Tornetta v. Musk filed their opening briefs with the Delaware Supreme Court. The Tornetta team will respond by April 25, and the challengers will have the last word on May 16….” montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/tornetta-u...

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“[R]emains of [Staff Sgt. Duenez, Franco, Knutson & PFC Taitano] were recovered after an exhaustive 8-day operation that showcased…the unwavering commitment of American forces to their fellow soldiers, but also the profound solidarity of our allies in Europe.” www.thebulwark.com/p/when-ameri...

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EV transition is leading to significant consolidation of PRC ICE (internal combustion) auto makers: "Dongfeng & Changan…are in…discussions to merge… [T]ogether [they] make ~5M cars a year — more than Ford & almost as many as GM or Stellantis…" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...

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A new methodology to detect and measure economic activity using geospatial data, applied to steel production, a major industrial pollution source worldwide, from Anton Yang, Jianwei Ai, and Costas Arkolakis https://www.nber.org/papers/w33619

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Lip-Bu Tan says Intel will spin off non-core units

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