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https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/ten-trends-to-watch-in-the-coming-year A letter from Tom Standage, editor of “The World Ahead 2022” If 2021 was the year the world turned the tide against the pandemic, 2022 will be dominated by…
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/12/does-china-own-more-of-america-than-we-thought.html This paper demonstrates that the measured stock of China’s holding of U.S. assets could be much higher than indicated by the U.S. net international investment position data due to…
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/china-overtakes-us-as-world-s-richest-country-report China has overtaken the United States as the world’s richest country, a recent report by the research arm of consultants McKinsey & Co. revealed. The study examined the balance…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bitcoin-end-us-super-imperialism Authored by Alex Gladstein via BitcoinMagazine.com, In 1972, one year after President Richard Nixon defaulted on the dollar and formally took the United States off of the gold standard…
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/is-marriage-a-normal-good-evidence-from-nba-drafts.html Little is known about the causal link between male economic status and marriage outcomes, owing to lack of data on unanticipated permanent income shocks for men. I tackle this…
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Human civilization is being engineered in myriad ways by an unfathomably wealthy class who are so emotionally and psychologically stunted that they refuse to end world hunger…
The old city of Khiva in Uzbekistan. Some sections may be 5th century, but the strongest sections were built in 1686-88 and are the most intact Silk Road city. Photo:…
As President Joe Biden’s administration and its progressive allies push to pass an ambitious social spending bill, moderate Democrats are worried. They point to rising prices and postulate that we…
Source Mark Blyth in The Guardian: I travelled to New York City in August for the first time since the pandemic began, to visit friends who had just bought their…
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/how-economists-use-gdp-to-think.html That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. Here is one bit: An appreciation of GDP helps keep things in perspective. Say there is some social or economic…