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Dollarization or Not, Argentina’s Future Will Be Expensive

The good news is that President Javier Milei seems to be backing away from plans to dollarize the Argentine economy. That is also the bad news....

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The AI ‘Safety Movement’ Is Dead

May 2024 will be remembered as the month that the AI safety movement died. It will also be remembered as the time when the work of actually making...

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Could a $70,000 Baby Bonus Solve South Korea’s Fertility Crisis?

As the global fertility crisis continues to accelerate, so does anxiety over what to do about it. A smaller world population may be fine in the...

16.05.2024 20

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Labor’s Declining Share Is Worrisome and Mysterious

There is some bad news afoot for workers. Labor’s share of the US gross domestic product has been falling for a long time, by seven percentage...

13.05.2024 50

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Apple’s Influence Has Peaked, But Its Products Haven’t

Apple unveiled a record stock buyback plan last week even as it increased its dividend by 4%, to 25 cents per share. That made the market happy, and...

09.05.2024 50

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No, Low-Skilled Immigrants Don’t Cost Taxpayers Money

It’s not often that Paul Krugman and Donald Trump agree. But the Nobel-prize-winning economist and former (and future?) president have both...

07.05.2024 30

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Economists Aren’t the Best at Predicting the Economy

Sometimes the best way to understand the future is to look to the past. Out of curiosity, I recently cracked open The American Economy in Transition...

03.05.2024 50

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Trump’s Plans for the Fed Make No Sense, Even for Him

A second Trump administration might be very different from the first, and that includes how the president treats the Fed. Donald Trump complained a...

30.04.2024 50

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Barcelona Is Throwing Tourists Under the Bus

As the summer tourism season approaches, a perennial question arises, and technology is giving it a novel twist: Is a place primarily for those who...

23.04.2024 50

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Ludwig von Mises Is Latin America’s Leading Economist

The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is having a moment, especially in Latin America. Argentine President Javier Milei admires Mises, and he has...

16.04.2024 20

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Red Meat for the Conservative Base

What do some Republicans have against lab-grown meat? Legislatures in Alabama, Arizona, Tennessee and Florida are all considering bans on the sale or...

09.04.2024 30

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Will AI Create More Fake News Than It Exposes?

The best large-language models can already write like humans, especially if prompted properly. Photos and images can be faked at low cost....

06.04.2024 20

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How Can the World Make Immigration Work? Ask Canada

Canada’s population surpassed 40 million last year, recording its highest growth rate since 1957. The vast majority of this growth — 97.6% — was...

02.04.2024 4

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AI Could Have a Surprising Effect on Interest Rates

As improvements in artificial intelligence continue apace, so do questions about how AI will influence economies, asset prices and — the question of...

27.03.2024 20

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Indiana Can’t Make Universities More Conservative With a Law

Indiana’s Republican governor has just signed new law that introduces “intellectual diversity” as a standard for tenure decisions in state...

20.03.2024 20

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Why Is Haiti’s Economy So Much Worse Than Its Neighbor’s?

As Haiti continues its descent into chaos, the Dominican Republic continues to prosper. The two countries share the island of Hispaniola and a lot of...

15.03.2024 10

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Oh Canada, Your Economy Is Better Than You Think

Going against type, some Canadians are being very negative. A chorus of doomsayers is pointing out that by some measures, Canadian per-capita GDP is...

12.03.2024 10

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Ozempic Is Transforming the Health of Denmark’s Economy

From both a biomedical and economic point of view, the success of the new class of weight-loss drugs is something to behold. Not only are they a...

05.03.2024 9

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Has Bidenomics Worked? It's Too Soon to Say

With the US economy booming, the job market growing and inflation retreating, the consensus is near-unanimous: Bidenomics has been vindicated. Allow...

04.03.2024 20

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Open-Source Software Is Worth a Lot More Than You Pay for It

Open-source software may well be the greatest “public good” the market economy has ever produced. What it shows is the power of voluntary social...

26.02.2024 30

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What’s the Future of Advertising? Ask Sora

Sora, a new service from OpenAI that produces one-minute videos in response to a textual prompt, isn’t yet available to the public. But the videos...

21.02.2024 8

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Californians Are Dreaming of Lower Taxes

Some Americans like to mock France and Sweden for their high taxes. Yet California — whose economy is bigger than that of both countries — has...

12.02.2024 5

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Could Henry George’s Land Tax Bring Back Detroit?

Could an economic theory popularized in the 19th century revitalize 21st century Detroit? A lot of economists seem to think so, and I share their...

02.02.2024 10

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AI’s Greatest Danger? The Humans Who Use It

When it comes to artificial intelligence, I am an optimist. In fairness, this may be something of an understatement: Over the past year and a half, I...

25.01.2024 30

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Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

When will the world have its first trillionaire? A recent report from Oxfam International predicts one within a decade, noting that the five...

22.01.2024 9

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Your Child’s Favorite Teacher May Soon Be a Chatbot

Most students have a favorite teacher. In the future, could that teacher be … a chatbot? The answer depends in part on whether AI succeeds in...

17.01.2024 10

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Poorer Countries Will Find It Harder to Get Richer

For the billions of people around the world who live in countries that are not yet fully economically developed, I have some disturbing news: The very...

15.01.2024 10

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Politicians Can’t Rig the Economy Like They Used To

In economics as in life, success sometimes lies in knowing when to discard previous victories. I have in mind something called “political business...

08.01.2024 10

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America Spreads the Wealth — and Redistributes It, Too

I have news for you: The United States is becoming more redistributionist. Whether you like it or not. The broader historical trends show that the US...

05.01.2024 10

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Want to Be Wealthy? You Might Try Therapy

Economists are used to the idea that intervening in concrete ways — spending on development projects, for example, or on social services — can...

03.01.2024 9

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How Were So Many Economists So Wrong About the Recession?

Last year at this time, 85% of economists in one poll predicted a recession this year — and that was an optimistic take compared to the 100%...

26.12.2023 40

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The French Economy’s Secret Weapon: Bureaucrats

Sometimes the real action is in the dog that didn’t bark. What is striking about the European Union’s pending regulations on artificial...

18.12.2023 10

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Government Secrecy About UFOs Isn’t Always a Bad Thing

There is currently legislation before Congress that, if passed, could be one of the most important laws in US history. The Unidentified Anomalous...

10.12.2023 7

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Europe’s Inflation Was More Painful for the Elderly

The unexpected decline of the rate of inflation in the euro zone, to 2.4% from 10.6% a year ago, will limit the strain on European economies and lower...

05.12.2023 20

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Tyler Cowen

The YIMBY Movement Needs to Go Commerical

The YIMBY movement has so far focused on the deregulation of the residential housing market. In California, for instance, a variety of legal changes...

30.11.2023 10

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How Argentina Could Still Convert to the Dollar

Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina on the strength of a radical promise: that he would replace the highly inflationary Argentine peso...

28.11.2023 5

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Struggling Cities Face More Pain From AI Boom

Artificial intelligence is likely to transform our world in many ways, but one that hasn’t received much attention is the technology’s looming...

24.11.2023 20

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A Guide to the AI Safety Debate After Sam Altman’s Ouster

When it comes to artificial intelligence, one of the most commonly debated issues in the technology community is safety — so much so that it has...

19.11.2023 10

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America’s Top 1% Don’t Make as Much as You Might Think

Can a single self-published paper really refute decades of work by three famous economists? If the paper is the modestly titled “Income Inequality...

15.11.2023 10

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The Hypocrisy at the Core of America’s Elite Universities

Now that congressional Democrats have relaunched an effort to ban legacy admissions at top US universities, virtually everyone can count on one thing:...

13.11.2023 20

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Europe Needs to Move Fast and Break Bureaucracies

America’s rapid economic growth, which reached 4.9% in the third quarter, reflects an uncomfortable truth: The gap between the United States and the...

09.11.2023 5

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The Rate of Global Economic Growth Is Meaningless

Every now and then an economic concept must be gracefully retired. My latest nomination for this honor is the notion of a “global rate of economic...

06.11.2023 8

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US Workers Needn’t Be So Anxious About Their Next Paycheck

American workers are doing relatively well, but there is still a lot of anxiety about their plight. To many commentators, the US worker is suffering:...

02.11.2023 6

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New Laws to Regulate AI Would Be Premature

All of a sudden there is a flurry of activity around artificial intelligence policy. President Joe Biden is scheduled to issue an executive order on...

30.10.2023 9

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For Now, Markets Aren’t Worried About a Wider War

Despite the continuing war in the Middle East, most markets have been relatively calm. Stock exchanges have not plunged, while volatility appears...

26.10.2023 3

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What Economists Got Wrong About the Great Recession

What do we know, and not know, about macroeconomics? My coauthor and I are currently revising our economics textbook — one of our decisions is to...

24.10.2023 3

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Stop Worrying That AI Will Cause the Market to Crash

According to Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, a market crash caused by artificial intelligence is “nearly unavoidable.” Like many other regulators,...

18.10.2023 30

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Sports Are Part of the College Curriculum, Too

For many foreigners, the prevalence of athletics is one of the strangest features of the US system of higher education. America is a leader in Nobel...

14.10.2023 9

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Want to Be a Better Student? Be Patient

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21.09.2023 3

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Some Kinds of Dogs Shouldn’t Be Allowed as Pets

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19.09.2023 7

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