The American left must rediscover the Americanism of FDR and JFK.| www.noahpinion.blog
Strongman leaders are trying to bring order to a world disrupted by new media. But the "cure" is worse than the disease.| Noahpinion
America needs energy. Trump is making it harder to get energy.| Noahpinion
Without Trump's charisma, the American right will have to rely on ideology. That's scary.| Noahpinion
Trump is likely to fold, as usual. But if he didn't, the U.S. could free itself from the Chinese yoke.| Noahpinion
Doomerism; Stereotypes about Indians; Nobel laureate age; AI and radiologists; Europe vs. China| Noahpinion
Aghion, Howitt, and Mokyr tackled the biggest question of all.| Noahpinion
A great nation at its peak can still make big mistakes.| Noahpinion
It's not great. But if we want, we can still get things back on track.| Noahpinion
In which Kate Raworth summarizes many leftish criticisms of economics.| Noahpinion
Some places want to build. Maybe we should just let them.| Noahpinion
Humans are clever animals. We should make full use of that advantage.| Noahpinion
The industries you need for national defense are also the industries you need for manufacturing...everything.| Noahpinion
We must stand up for the most fundamental right of all.| www.noahpinion.blog
Economics and other interesting stuff. Click to read Noahpinion, by Noah Smith, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| www.noahpinion.blog
In which Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson offer a whole new way of thinking about political economy.| www.noahpinion.blog
AI companies are borrowing more money to invest more in AI.| www.noahpinion.blog
If the economy's single pillar goes down, Trump's presidency will be seen as a disaster.| www.noahpinion.blog
It's called "Weeb Economy". But so far it's only in Japanese.| www.noahpinion.blog
A timely repost, with some updates related to recent events.| www.noahpinion.blog
No one has any idea how to stop the decline, so we need to prepare for the consequences.| www.noahpinion.blog
Econ gives us an example of when and why this happens.| www.noahpinion.blog
Research should not be an effort to reach one's desired conclusions.| www.noahpinion.blog
Progressives discovered a seemingly invincible weapon. One day it stopped working.| www.noahpinion.blog
Some top economists claim AI is now destroying jobs for a subset of Americans. Are they right?| www.noahpinion.blog
The President's defenders are flailing.| www.noahpinion.blog
We need a few more of them. How can we get them?| www.noahpinion.blog
Adopting foreign technologies is scary, but it's what makes a society rich.| www.noahpinion.blog
AI and jobs; Bernie's bad chart; Personalist leaders and growth; AI vs. trolls; Chinese transshipment; marriage facts| www.noahpinion.blog
Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.| www.noahpinion.blog
This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.| www.noahpinion.blog
A repost from the Noahpinion archives, with a few updates.| www.noahpinion.blog
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.| www.noahpinion.blog
There are real problems with trade deficits, but Trump doesn't understand what they are.| www.noahpinion.blog
Progressive ideas still try to defy economic realities.| www.noahpinion.blog
A review by Sandeep Vaheesan fails to discredit Abundance, but it points to what the movement could be doing better.| www.noahpinion.blog
A Ukrainian drone attack shows our extreme vulnerability.| www.noahpinion.blog
Sunny visions of the future are great. But if you want to lead the Democrats, you need to fight.| www.noahpinion.blog
This is no longer a serious country.| www.noahpinion.blog
Predictably, my theories are all technological and economic.| www.noahpinion.blog
The protectionist narrative is more myth than fact.| www.noahpinion.blog
Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.| www.noahpinion.blog
If Trump and Elon think they can forge a grand right-wing alliance with China and Russia, they're heading for trouble.| www.noahpinion.blog
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.| www.noahpinion.blog
Stasis won't lead to a prosperous or equitable society.| www.noahpinion.blog
One party is actively trying to leave the 2010s behind. The other is doubling down.| www.noahpinion.blog
It has to be managed as both a consumer good and as an asset class.| www.noahpinion.blog
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born employment; redistribution; transit costs| www.noahpinion.blog
Don't turn to the dark side of progressive economics.| www.noahpinion.blog
Trump's signature policy would frighten Americans without improving the immigration situation.| www.noahpinion.blog
The internet is mostly complete. Where does tech go from here?| www.noahpinion.blog
Looking for the silver lining in a messy policy.| www.noahpinion.blog
Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.| www.noahpinion.blog
But even so, it's probably time for the Fed to start cutting rates.| www.noahpinion.blog
What *not* to do when you're in charge of a country.| www.noahpinion.blog
We were early to the party on every other technological revolution, but we missed this one.| www.noahpinion.blog
Why the best President of my lifetime might get misremembered as a bumbling caretaker.| www.noahpinion.blog
That's a scary thought, but not for the reason it used to be.| www.noahpinion.blog
In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Trump, America is the world's least stable Great Power.| www.noahpinion.blog
Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1.| www.noahpinion.blog
How electricity is replacing combustion as humanity's key tool for mastering the physical world.| www.noahpinion.blog
There are several good reasons to be worried.| www.noahpinion.blog
The rise in maternal mortality, the fall in geographic mobility, the rise in teen suicide, and many other "facts" are being called into question.| www.noahpinion.blog
Elite overproduction spotted in the wild.| www.noahpinion.blog
If you don't acknowledge the point of tariffs, how can you hope to criticize them?| www.noahpinion.blog
If so, it could shake the foundations of the global economy.| www.noahpinion.blog
The Ukraine-and-TikTok bill is a good start. Here are five more things we need to work on.| www.noahpinion.blog
Whatever you think of Israel, there's just no future in "global intifada" and "Death to America".| www.noahpinion.blog
Enough doom and gloom, let's allow ourselves a moment of happiness.| www.noahpinion.blog
In which I try to be Gandalf instead of Cassandra.| www.noahpinion.blog
And is this going to hurt us down the line?| www.noahpinion.blog
Indian poverty reduction, America's friends, Canada's economy, Europe grows a spine, and Japan's DARPA| www.noahpinion.blog
A guest post by Preston Mui.| www.noahpinion.blog
Comparative advantage is very subtle, but incredibly powerful.| www.noahpinion.blog
The CCP and its allies have bought themselves a new champion.| www.noahpinion.blog
"Are we better off", the economy of Dune, energy abundance, wacky polls, doomscrolling, anger about interest rates, and visualizing urban density| www.noahpinion.blog
Building a multiracial society is hard work. Don't be tempted by shortcuts.| www.noahpinion.blog
A repost from the archives of my old blog| www.noahpinion.blog
When Putin talks, we should listen.| www.noahpinion.blog
Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.| www.noahpinion.blog
Solar and batteries are going to win, and our thinking needs to adjust accordingly.| www.noahpinion.blog
SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok as a propaganda engine, and California homelessness| www.noahpinion.blog
National wealth comes from ingenuity, hard work, good institutions, sound policy, political stability, and openness to foreign ideas and investment.| www.noahpinion.blog
And some perspective on what's happened already.| www.noahpinion.blog
Bringing it back isn't impossible, but it will be difficult.| www.noahpinion.blog
It's time to face this difficult fact, understand why it's happening, and deal with it.| www.noahpinion.blog
Not that anyone is going to listen to the evidence...| www.noahpinion.blog
The OpenAI coup, "deaths of despair", Japan's stagnation, solar panel waste, and the Inequality Wars| www.noahpinion.blog
The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.| www.noahpinion.blog
Have we found the regulation that's strangling the U.S. economy?| www.noahpinion.blog
Slowly, the tide is starting to turn.| www.noahpinion.blog
Researchers shouldn't just make stuff up.| www.noahpinion.blog
A question few people seem to be asking.| www.noahpinion.blog