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Longtime business journalist with global, local and financial interests. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-ferguson-150a1311/
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There are ag reserves, and there are "ag reserves." timwferguson.com/2025/06/27/h...

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A reminder of when there really were mass threats to young children in the "developed" world. reason.com/2025/06/26/w...

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This is about the larger social phenomenon of an underemployed would-be career class. It speaks, especially in these AI times, to the wrong-headedness of a continued push to universalize the university experience. www.thefp.com/p/making-sen...

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Grace note. thehill.com/regulation/c...

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At long last? www.ft.com/content/5999...

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Despite GOP fears of partisanship. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

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1%: A killer number for digital news. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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5% down-payments via FHA are often a recipe for trouble. www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

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East Africa is still seething. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/w...

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Open just a crack and the roaches come in. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Two Singapore scholars see their island nation moving toward PR China. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/southe...

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One good reason for avoiding app installations generally. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

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Spain gets a pass on NATO rearmament. www.dw.com/en/nato-memb...

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If you were wondering about Wonder, the ghost-kitchen/delivery service that is getting billionaire bigness. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/18/s...

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Code name: Mustang. (h/t Chris Riback newsletter) www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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Among many other AI uncertainties: the craft of writing. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

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Are blueberries partly to blame? washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/15/c...

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It was Cuomo's office as governor that originally hired Linda Sun, Chinese agent later fired by Kathy Hochul. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

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Despite worries over abandonment of "pandemic pets," the shelter kill levels continue to decline in most of America. wellbeingintl.org/us-animal-sh...

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And movies with gunplay. Yuck. Then there's e-games. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/m...

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A health-care resource deserving more attention, beyond the usual political bromides. manhattan.institute/article/maki...

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The two great failures of U.S. foreign policy in the years pre-Trump were allowing PR China to get the jump on America, and not taking out the Kim regime before DPRK went nuclear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEd9...

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Trump is surprisingly popular in Nigeria, it seems. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

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Burning out: Home-solar industry is built on cheap loans, tax credits and Chinese panels. www.axios.com/pro/climate-...

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the Sheikh Hasina of Africa. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

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Something potentially big to watch amid all the ambient noise. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Totalitarianism is no game. apnews.com/article/hong...

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This 'crisis' is unlikely to change the populist politics of immigration. sfstandard.com/2025/06/07/a...

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It's become clear that the conservative editorialists of the Wall St Journal, with an eye to some future GOP, have singled out Vance for particular criticism. The performative creature that is Trump, it could be argued, is already baked in the cake. www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-v...

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The divide between blue and red states keeps growing. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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An economically reasonable solution for water crises? www.newgeography.com/content/0085...

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For every action, there's a reaction--more Rx readership. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/maha...

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BYO or paper bags only in rainy Oregon. www.opb.org/article/2025...

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Some major media still do business in the police state. events.bloomberglive.com/bloomberg-in...

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The Viking cruise line is explicit in its "no children" marketing. Yet airlines have not found this to be possible. www.vikingcruises.com/oceans/why-v...

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Tax rate on visitors stays will rise to 19%. apnews.com/article/hawa...

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Housing vs. oysters on Long Island, NY. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

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However we got here, good. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

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An actuarial acknowledgment. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Trump must again envy Gen. Sisi, who gets pliant monetary policy despite economic indicators. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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A classic retail tale. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/b...

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San Francisco's business district has a basis for rebound. Less so, Portland's. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

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In-person pro sports in America is a rarefied realm, and tennis perhaps most of all. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/u...

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This part of the 'big, beautiful bill' would encourage more vehicle purchases with debt. Just what America needs. spectrumlocalnews.com/us/national/...

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Heavy early TV advertising by Gottheimer and Fulop has had limited effect. newjerseyglobe.com/governor/she...

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Even before the Israeli pounding, Gaza was not safe for journalism. cpj.org/2025/05/gaza...

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Decades of delay to end? aviationweek.com/air-transpor...

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