▽Opinion - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com ●04/28 17:14 Closed CaptionsIt takes a highly skilled stenographer — and some specialized equipment — to transcribe TV dialogue in real time at 300 words per minute. Will A.I. rewrite the script? Zachary Crockett tries to keep up.A Solution to America’s Gun ProblemJens Ludwig has an idea for how to fix America’s gun violence problem — and it starts by rejecting conventional wisdom from both sides of the pol
▽Brad Setser: Follow the Money ●04/28 13:51 IntroductionOver the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…Executive SummaryIn the decades following World War II, the United States was the undisputed leader of the global economic system. It had the strongest economy in the world and championed a set o…Worl
▽Cafe Hayek ●04/28 08:15 An Excellent Panel, on Trade, at the Hoover Institutionby Don Boudreaux on April 27, 2025TweetHT John Cochrane{ 0 comments }Some Linksby Don Boudreaux on April 27, 2025TweetMy GMU Econ colleague Bryan Caplan writes insightfully about trade. A slice:Suppose the U.S. Constitution mandated unilateral free trade with no exceptions. Much could go wrong. A pessimist could fairly ask all of the
▽EconoSpeak ●04/28 07:22 The more the contradiction develops: footnotes to "Marx's Fetters: a remedial reading" -- a pop-up bookLast June, I posted a book proposal to EconoSpeak: Marx's Fetters and the Realm of Freedom: a remedial reading. It was a lightly revise...Comments on Profit and CapitalYeah, I know, Marx wrote three volumes on this, and in 2014 Piketty published in English a more than 700 page book on it that
