Shane is joined by Milton Mueller and Adam Thierer to discuss AI regulation, the innovation-vs-safety tradeoff, and whether global AI governance is even possible.

America is in a baby bust, with birth rates hitting record lows and still falling. Young Americans are getting married later and less. Meanwhile, parents face rising stress, and children suffer an ...

Released last month, Google’s AI and Economy ATLAS sorts 14.6 million Gemini conversations into jobs and associated tasks. The headline is reassuring: AI is assisting people, not replacing them. Its ...

In The Sun Also Rises, when one of Hemmingway’s characters was asked how he went bankrupt, he replied “first gradually and then suddenly”. As 30-year US bond yields climb to their highest level since ...

Housing markets are inherently local and national data can obfuscate important local trends. While some metros continue to benefit from tailwinds in the form of lower home prices, growing economies or ...

The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined since 2005 has hit $2.7 trillion. Verifiable investment recovered from COVID and zero-COVID but has not gone back anywhere close to ...

The war with Iran is no longer hypothetical. American forces are engaged. Missiles are being launched. Interceptors are being expended. Precision munitions are striking targets across a widening ...

Having worked on emerging markets for many years, first at the IMF and then on Wall Street, I can recognize an economy on the road to a crisis. It pains me to say that the United States appears to be ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

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Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...