No technology in modern memory has caused mass job loss among highly educated workers. Will generative AI be an exception?
Author: Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
The Misery of Being a Big-City Mayor
The best job in politics suddenly became a lot more difficult.
3 Pieces of Good Economic News for the New Year
Happy trends are easy to overlook.
The Economy’s Fundamental Problem Has Changed
For years, Americans couldn’t afford to buy things. Now there aren’t enough things to buy.
The Economy’s Fundamental Problem Has Changed
For years, Americans couldn’t afford to buy things. Now, there aren’t enough things to buy.
You Should Probably Wait To Buy a Home
Why the housing market is so brutal right now
America’s Housing Gap Is Too Huge to Measure
For Americans to live a productive, prosperous, happy life, homes need to be truly abundant.
FTX Committed the Sin It Was Supposed To Correct
The swift downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried brings unnecessary suspicion on a valuable form of philanthropy.
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Despite wrenching economic and political changes in the country, Democrats and Republicans keep finding themselves nearly tied in election after election.
The Economist Who Knows the Miracle Is Over
The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity-about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small planet to building a kind of utopia on it-and he saw an inflection point centuries after the emergence of capitalism…