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Last week, a colleague of mine sent me a copy of an email that they had received from ClimateBrief, a UK-based advocacy journalism group. The email asked for examples of how their published research ...
The idea of digital “superintelligence” makes for intriguing symposium fodder. Yet few participants managed to define it. Zuckerberg himself offered more poetry than precision in his note—imagining AI ...
This infographic provides near-real-time insights on the housing market and how a new normal is taking hold due impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
From an economic perspective, unintended consequences turn tidy government plans into costly messes. Such interventions often create economic distortions that government planners couldn't foresee ...
The reactions to the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) report released last week have been just as interesting as the report itself. The degree of vitriol and freak-out by activist climate scientists ...
Yesterday was Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. It commemorates the destruction of the First (423 BCE) and Second Temple (69 BCE) in Jerusalem. It is written that the Bar Kochba ...
Much gerrymandering is not aimed at maximizing partisan advantage but at protecting incumbents. This is just another instance of an iron rule of politics: People in power use their power to remain ...
As these AI tools continue to evolve, economists and policy analysts who master prompt engineering and integrate these technologies into their workflows will find themselves better equipped to tackle ...
Paris and London have opened a Pandora’s Box of terrorism. Western progressives are useful idiots for terror sponsors; academics, Western journalists, and human ...
How Generative AI’s Impact on Learning Curves Will Reshape the Workplace Generative AI (GenAI) is set to reshape the workforce, redefining career pathways and talent development. However, despite ...
In his first term, President Donald Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer, inventor of the “Laffer curve,” which provided the intellectual foundation for ...