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The reverse OPEC maneuver
Pricing power in the oil industry is shifting, and will shift more.
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#2)
Useless student loans, the U.S. factory-building boom, middle-aged Millennials, opportunity for the poor, and limits to AI
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In which David Sacks and Balaji raise a false alarm about the jobs numbers
The government numbers are not fake. They're just noisy.
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Real estate is China's economic Achilles heel
It's the country's biggest engine of growth an employment, financial asset, and source of government revenue.
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Where does libertarianism go from here?
Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
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At least five interesting things to start your week
Nvidia's triumph, "greedflation", public housing, Atlanta vs. Los Angeles, and what the UK gets right
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The debt ceiling deal: What was the whole point?
A manufactured crisis leads to an ineffectual "solution"
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