James Pethokoukis
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When government policy emphasizes production over consumption: washing machine edition
The new thinking on the populist right is that US economic policy has long focused far too much on consumption vs. production. Making stuff is important, too! But what does a change in emphasis look like in the real world?
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James Pethokoukis
When government policy emphasizes production over consumption: washing machine edition
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Trump says Cain withdraws from consideration for Fed seat
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that Herman Cain has withdrawn from consideration for a seat on the Federal Reserve's board amid a focus on past scandals. Cain is a...
Trump wins over big donors who snubbed him in 2016
The president's 2020 campaign is launching an ambitious fundraising network aimed at supporters of his past GOP rivals.
Trump’s Washing Machine Tariffs Stung Consumers While Lifting Corporate Profits
New research shows how a move meant to aid domestic manufacturers instead padded profits and raised prices on a wide variety of laundry items.
James Pethokoukis
“... a case study in how a measure meant to help domestic factory workers can rebound on American consumers, creating unexpected costs and leaving shoppers with a sky-high bill for every factory job created.” nytimes.com/2019/04/21/bus… via @nytimes
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Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine
When the U.S. introduced the measles vaccine, childhood deaths from all infections plummeted. Scientists think they might know why: Benefits of the measles vaccine go way beyond the measles.
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James Pethokoukis
“Art, with its element of randomness as to who prospers, is a truer parable for real life than sport ever will be.”
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Another Warning Sign
The Mueller report is a window into the manner of administration that characterizes the Trump era.
Most top AI researchers in the U.S. are foreign
More than half of the best-of-the-best AI researchers in the U.S. are originally from other countries.
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James Pethokoukis
Seems like something US immigration policy and attitudes should acount for #AmericaFirst? | Most top AI researchers in the U.S. are foreign
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Zoom's CEO emigrated from China 22 years ago and spoke little English—now he's worth almost $3 billion
Eric Yuan started Zoom in 2011 after helping build WebEx. His company is now worth $15.9 billion after its IPO, and Yuan owns about 20%.
James Pethokoukis
"Not even Eric Yuan’s closest friends, oldest advisers and earliest investors thought Zoom needed to exist."
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Could you be a super-forecaster?
Take part in a prediction challenge that could shine a light on skills you never knew you had.
Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energy
Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy for generating electricity. A major step in this...
Beto O'Rourke rejects Elizabeth Warren's plan to break up Amazon
"I think we need to do more to ensure dynamism in our economy and address corporate concentration," O'Rourke told INSIDER.
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James Pethokoukis
I have four kids in college. One thing I’ve learned: If a school’s library has any sort of Gothic touch at all, the tour guide will say, “It kind of looks like Hogwarts.”
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Father James Schall Reflects on Life and Death
Father James Schall with meditations for the living.
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James Pethokoukis
Just a violent, insatiable hunger | “The researchers stressed that there were no indications of “perception, awareness, or consciousness” in brains.
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Stephen Moore would bring 'supply-side' diversity to the Fed
Moore's supply-side views would be a welcome addition to the deliberations of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rate policy.
James Pethokoukis
Concern about incentives and the productive capacity of the economy is different than today's intellectually vaporous "supply-side" economics usatoday.com/story/opinion/… via @usatoday
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The Six Billion Dollar Man Movie With Mark Wahlberg Is Back On
It feels like a Six Million Dollar Man movie starring Mark Wahlberg has been in the works for six million years. In that time directors have come and gone, as have producers and release dates, but now a new director is on board who could get the...
James Pethokoukis
"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster. And taller. Most definitely taller."
io9.gizmodo.com/the-six-billio… via @io9
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S. Africa's Decline Worst of Nations Not at War, Model Shows
South Africa’s performance on a range of social, economic and governance measures deteriorated more in the past 12 years than any other nation not at war, according to Eunomix Business & Economics Ltd.
James Pethokoukis
“Orthodox economics adopted during the rule of former President Thabo Mbeki, who was in power from 1999 until 2008, have been abandoned in favor of more populist policies.”
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Insurer Warns of Existential Threat on Climate Policy
Chubb Ltd.’s Evan Greenberg is urging lawmakers to address the rising threat of climate change after $160 billion in global economic losses from a practically “biblical” year of catastrophes.