ECONOMY

The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 28, 2025
Everyone talks about the soaring cost of child care (e.g. here, here and here), but have you looked at the soaring cost of

Coffee Break: Fossil Fuels and Health, EPA, AI that Works, and a Belated Retraction
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 25, 2025
Part the First: The Healthcare Costs of Fossil Fuels. One would think this is a no-brainer. Nevertheless, the Current Administration

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Poison Gas
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 22, 2025
Before our current age of nuclear war anxiety, there was widespread concern about an earlier terrifying weapon of mass destruction:

D’accord !
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 19, 2025
That is from the French embassy in the UK. The post D’accord ! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

Elon Musk Squeezing SpaceX and Tesla for xAI investment
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 16, 2025
Elon Musk, Earth’s wealthiest human, is leveraging his business empire to invest in his xAI play. SpaceX has ponied up

Technology Transfer and Development Economics
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 13, 2025
Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less

Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Today I Learned
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 10, 2025
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Trump Accounts are a Big Deal
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 7, 2025
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant

Amazon’s Robotic Revolution
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 4, 2025
Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages

*Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future*
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . July 1, 2025
By Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page. Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck: