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California Implications of Britain’s Plan to Truncate its High-Speed Rail System
Marc Joffe Two recent developments reinforce the case against new, large government‐run rail projects. These initiatives are usually a bad deal…
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AI firms working on “constitutions” to keep AI from spewing toxic content
Enlarge (credit: FT montage/Dreamstime) Two of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence companies announced major advances in consumer AI products last…
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How Bad Are Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Abuses?
Michael Chapman During the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden pledged to play tough with Saudi Arabia and hold it accountable…
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Congress Must Heed Lessons of Previous Deficit Reductions
Adam N. Michel Interest rates on 10‐year Treasury bonds recently surpassed 4.7 percent after not exceeding 3.1 percent in the…
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The ‘New Conservatism’ Is Driven by Bad Economics
Norbert Michel The United Auto Workers announced it’s expanding the strike against General Motors and Ford today, just three days…
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Vulnerabilities in Supermicro BMCs could allow for unkillable server rootkits
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) If your organization uses servers that are equipped with baseboard management controllers from Supermicro, it’s time,…
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Bond Yields Are Global. The Fed Can Undo an Inverted Yield Curve
Alan Reynolds “Soaring Bond Yields Threaten Fed Goal of a Soft Landing” is the headline of a front‐page Wall Street Journal story…
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Meta Set Up Its Own Oversight Board. Three Years Later, How Effective Has It Been?
David Inserra Large portions of the EU’s sweeping “Digital Services Act” (DSA) went into force at the end of August.…
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Senate Letter Expresses Doubts on US Security Guarantees to Saudi Arabia
Jon Hoffman Twenty Democratic senators signed an open letter to President Biden today supporting the administration’s move to help broker…
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Investing
A Nobel Prize for Globalization
Ian Vásquez This week Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries…
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