Coffee Break: Fossil Fuels and Health, EPA, AI that Works, and a Belated Retraction
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
Before our current age of nuclear war anxiety, there was widespread concern about an earlier terrifying weapon of mass destruction:
D’accord !
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
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
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
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
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
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 Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page. Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck:
Flying on Frying Oil
The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers