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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  Reducing trade deficits and reviving manufacturing would not end the resentment fueling right-wing authoritarian movements.

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  Crude economic factors don’t explain the fascist shift in Germany. And Trumponomics, even if it worked (which it doesn’t) wouldn’t end the resentment feeding our own authoritarian movement.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Desalination for drinking and household water is cheap and uses less energy than commonly assumed.

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  Supplying drinking and household water through desalination is really quite cheap, and uses far less energy than I’d have guessed.

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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.

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  The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History

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  It is a quick read, an excellent book whose main virtue is not, in my opinion, direct analogy with the World War I, but a treatment of how in a multipolar world relatively small international events, misunderstandings, idiosyncratic fits of leaders, “hubris and fear” (as Westad often writes), resentment of the elite and of the public prodded by the media, can produce colossal miscalculations which then produce even more colossal wars and, in the era of the weapons of mass destruction, may end the civilization.

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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  Government borrowing through the financial crisis and the pandemic was a good trade, because it repaired household balance sheets.

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  I think the fact that the government took on debt during two crises to help households was a good trade-off.

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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.

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  A government's debt dynamics are a household's or a company's, except that it can print money and tax -- and those two powers are what change the ending.

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  The debt dynamics work the same for a central government as they do for a person or a company, except that a central government has a central bank that can print money (which devalues it) and it can take money away from people via taxes.

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  Changing your own behavior can shift a relationship or household atmosphere and lead others to change too.

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  But it's also true that when I change, a relationship changes; when I change, the atmosphere of my household changes; when I change, others may imitate me.

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Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.

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  Data centres had not raised the average American household's electricity bill as of 2025; inflation and the gas-price shock did.

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  This is the first conclusion of my deep dive: Data centers have (so far) not affected national average household electricity bills.

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  A robot that can run a household is a single-digit number of years away, and the missing pieces are a synthesis of ideas we already have rather than new ones.

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  Uh but it uh I think we kind of like know like roughly the puzzle pieces and it's something that we need to work on and I think if we work on it and we're a bit lucky and everything kind of goes as planned I think single digit is reasonable.

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First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  The cancel-culture argument now mostly shields the powerful from criticism rather than protecting the powerless from being silenced.

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  In my view, too many critics of “cancel culture” are recklessly promoting not the speech of the powerless, but the censorious resentment of the powerful.

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