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"Gradually, then suddenly." - The Sun Also RisesLots of people are worried about rising long-term interest rates. Short-term interest rates are controlled by the central bank. But the Fed doesn't usually intervene in the market for longer-term bonds, so w

Photo by Age Cymru on UnsplashThe Economist has an interesting article this week, in which it goes after Daron Acemoglu. Acemoglu is probably the top economist in the world at this point, having just earned a Nobel prize, and sitting right at the top of t

Moriawase at AnThere's actually a tradition of economics bloggers giving recommendations about where (and how) to eat out. Tyler Cowen wrote a whole book on the subject, as well as various blog posts, and maintains an Ethnic Dining Guide on the web! I'm n

Photo by World Economic Forum via Wikimedia CommonsZhu Rongji has passed away at the age of 97. He was not the only architect of the economic reforms that have made China a modern powerhouse - Deng Xiaoping, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yun, and others were all impor

Public intellectual

Photo by Joe Dudeck on UnsplashA few days ago, I published a guest post by Tim Fist and Saif Khan of the Institute for Progress, discussing the question of whether we should deliberately try to slow down the rate of AI progress:The authors promised a raft

Photo by Stamatisclan via Wikimedia CommonsThe rabbit in the picture above is a breed known as a Flemish Giant. Like other giant rabbit breeds, they are especially cuddly, gentle, calm, and good with kids and other animals. Unfortunately, they only live t

Econ blogger

It has come to my attention that the noted political scientist Henry Farrell has been writing some very testy responses to me. The first two, in 2024, totally slipped by unnoticed:Programmable MutterDr. Pangloss's PanopticonSo Noah Smith has a quite negat

Founding Director at Center for Technology and Statecraft (CTS) & Distinguished Fellow at IFP. Prev: Counselor to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Director for Tech & Natsec at White House NSC, Bipartisan Advisor to House China Committee