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Economics
Here Comes the Inventory of Vacant Homes
Two Tidbits Of Timeless Political Wisdom From Machiavelli
The Effects of Wealth on Health Care Spending: Evidence from the Housing Market
Billionaire Superstar: Public Image and Demand for Taxation
China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029
Europe and China Remain the Biggest Buyers of Russian Pipeline Gas
Kamala Harris carries the torch, and the burden, of Bidenomics
Geopolitics
Countering Chinese Aggression in the South China Sea
Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
World War 3: The Catalyst for a New World Order
Houthis only emboldened by Israeli attacks
Deflating Biden’s Boast on NATO
Kyiv’s top diplomat urges ‘direct’ Ukraine peace talks on China trip
Lack of Will Isn’t What’s Keeping Xi From Reforming China’s Economy
Water Scarcity Is About to Upend Politics Across North Africa
Han Dong-hoon Elected Leader of South Korea’s Conservatives After Tumultuous Party Convention
South Korea’s Nuclear Latency: A Critical and Analytical Evaluation
Blinken Set to Visit 4 Southeast Asian Nations on Regional Tour
In the Crosshairs of the US, Syria and Iran Build Ties with Other Nations
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
NATO States Embrace Conscription, Eyeing Future War with Russia
Pentagon Releases Strategy Calling for Increased Military Presence in the Arctic
Climate Change
Can Kamala Harris Finish Biden’s Climate Agenda?
Canada Evacuates Jasper National Park as Wildfires Burn in Alberta
Two Landslides Kill 229 People in Ethiopia
Science & Technology
Tesla to produce ‘humanoid’ robots next year
The Most Misunderstood – and Important – Factor in the AI Arms Race
New ICS Malware ‘FrostyGoop’ Targeting Critical Infrastructure
Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan and US NGO with MgBot Malware
A Versal Story in the Era of Hardware AI: Why the Chinese Could Win
How to prevent your software update from being the next CrowdStrike
American Politics
Truth Is The Casualty Of Our Political Wars
Trump Confirms Netanyahu Meeting At Mar-A-Lago
The Party Of ‘Democracy” Will Now Choose Your Candidate For You
‘I Lost My Son’: Musk Says He Was Tricked Into Approving Puberty Blockers
Blinken Dubiously Hails Harris As A ‘Leading Voice’ Of US Foreign Policy
US Voters Want Change, Biden’s Exit Hasn’t Fixed That
San Francisco Invokes Supreme Court’s Bureaucracy-Weakening Ruling In Lawsuit Against EPA
If Harris Is the Nominee, It Still Won’t Be Easy to Beat Trump
US official says migrant deportations from Panama ‘imminent’
US antitrust agency probes ‘surveillance pricing’
Good News!
Innovative tracking technology strives to keep wild polar bears and humans apart
Primary Cause of Lupus Discovered–and A Possible Way to Reverse It
Quote of the Day
“Why ‘capitalism’? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make their own decisions about what they think will improve their lives. So careless talk about ‘taking control of capitalism’ actually means that governments take control of citizens.
“But it doesn’t sound like it, does it? One of my intellectual heroes, Deirdre McCloskey, complains that the word capitalism gives the misleading impression that it is about the rule of capital, rather than liberating people to make their own economic decisions, which is really what the free market is about: ‘Capitalism’ is a scientific mistake compressed into a single word, a dramatically misleading coinage by our enemies, and still used by the sadly misled among out friends.’
So why do I use it? Because, no matter what we think of it, and no matter which word we would prefer for a system of private property and free markets, this is the word that has become inextricably linked to it, and if its supporters don’t fill that word with meaning, its opponents will.”
