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Honestly, It's Probably the Phones

The most plausible explanation for teenage unhappiness.

Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes

A textbook currency crisis, triggered by a bunch of policy mistakes.

The internet wants to be fragmented

Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.

Why is China smashing its tech industry?

Maybe because what countries think of as a "tech industry" isn't always the same

Japan has changed in important and visible ways

The 2020s are not the 1990s.

No one knows how much the government can borrow

Perhaps macroeconomists should think about studying this interesting question.

The Left-NIMBY Canon

Standing athwart urban history, yelling Stop

Debunking our narratives of the late 70s and early 80s

Interview with Patrick Collison

In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs.

Against Hickelism

Poverty is falling, and it isn't because of free-market capitalism

Interview: Vitalik Buterin

In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.

Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco

Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.

Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes

Econ gives us an example of when and why this happens.

Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics

The supply chain crunch, modern logistics, and that famous trip around the Port of Long Beach

People are realizing that degrowth is bad

The mad schemes degrowthers advocate are a fantasy that distracts us from real efforts to save the planet

How Homogeneous Is Japan?

It depends on what you mean by homogeneity.