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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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  A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade.

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  America’s large trade deficit in manufactured goods does mean that we have fewer manufacturing jobs than we would if that trade were balanced.

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  Economic inequality is growing because technology makes companies easier to start and faster to grow, not because of tax policy.

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  There's a pervasive myth that "tax policy changes" are the reason economic inequality is growing. Actually it's because technology makes it increasingly easy to start companies, and makes them grow faster once you do.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Harry Potter series

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  Ah, high school memories! Seems like this series was an important part of my childhood.

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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

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  The Power of Myth

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  I discovered Campbell's work during that great transitional period of my life (in my early 30s, when I left the wrong career and the wrong relationship, and set sail into the unknown) and it has been a mainstay ever since.

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From one piece Attack of the Zombie Tariffs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Tariff revenue is real but far too small to make a dent in the American deficit.

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  Revenue from the Trump tariffs, even pre-Court, wasn’t enough to make a large dent in the deficit.

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  The 2025 American tariffs did not reduce the trade deficit they were imposed to reduce.

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  In fact, the U.S. trade deficit for all of 2025 was about the same as it was in 2024.

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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.

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  Being Right or Making Money

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  Here’s a list of great investing books that somehow have fewer than 50 reviews! Being Right or Making Money by Ned Davis The Art of the Market by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton 2020 Vision: Investment wisdom for tomorrow by Harry Liem The Silver Bears by Paul Emil Erdman

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  The Silver Bears

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  Here’s a list of great investing books that somehow have fewer than 50 reviews! Being Right or Making Money by Ned Davis The Art of the Market by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton 2020 Vision: Investment wisdom for tomorrow by Harry Liem The Silver Bears by Paul Emil Erdman

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  Triumph of the Optimists

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  Here’s a list of great investing books that somehow have fewer than 50 reviews! Being Right or Making Money by Ned Davis The Art of the Market by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton 2020 Vision: Investment wisdom for tomorrow by Harry Liem The Silver Bears by Paul Emil Erdman

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  2020 Vision: Investment wisdom for tomorrow

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  Here’s a list of great investing books that somehow have fewer than 50 reviews! Being Right or Making Money by Ned Davis The Art of the Market by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton 2020 Vision: Investment wisdom for tomorrow by Harry Liem The Silver Bears by Paul Emil Erdman

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  The Art of the Market

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  Here’s a list of great investing books that somehow have fewer than 50 reviews! Being Right or Making Money by Ned Davis The Art of the Market by Bob Tamarkin and Les Krantz Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton 2020 Vision: Investment wisdom for tomorrow by Harry Liem The Silver Bears by Paul Emil Erdman

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Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

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  The American trade deficit is a macroeconomic fact, not a trade one: the US saves less than it invests, so no tariff can close it.

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  The trade deficits have widened since Trump, right? They haven’t closed the imbalance with China and with the rest of the world because ultimately the US saves less than it invests. And that’s a macrophenomenon. It’s not a trade phenomenon

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  When Harry Met Sally

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  On the other hand, seeing When Harry Met Sally at the Roxie was a total delight. I was grinning for probably 80% of it.

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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

From one piece Tariffs, saving, and investment 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Cutting off trade with tariffs would force a huge interest-rate spike and probably a debt crisis, because the budget deficit would have to be financed at home.

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  But the spike in interest rates require to do this would be huge. And the trade shock will cause a sharp recession, or worse, putting even more stress on the budget. A debt crisis is likely along the way as the US finds it impossible to roll over debt.

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  The cure for the trade deficit is to tax consumption instead of saving and investment, and to stop borrowing to fund consumption.

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  Cure the disease, not the symptoms. Reform taxes to tax consumption, not saving and investment. Stop funneling borrowed money to consumption.

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  The American trade deficit is foreigners choosing to invest in America, not America being cheated.

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  this story tells us how an increase in foreign demand to save in the US rather than at home will push up the dollar, and cause the trade deficit, which is in effect how foreigners send us factories which they would rather build here than in their own countries.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material.

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  One myth of good storytelling is that it requires dreaming up something entirely new from scratch. That's not necessary.

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  The Little House on the Prairie

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  There are children's books that have summoned this energy for us—Torbjørn Egner, The Little House on the Prairie, Harry Potter—but generally speaking, children's books are a drag.

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  Harry Potter

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  There are children's books that have summoned this energy for us—Torbjørn Egner, The Little House on the Prairie, Harry Potter—but generally speaking, children's books are a drag.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Even the most commercially successful books are written for a very small group of people rather than for everyone.

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  Uh Harry Potter, the most successful uh book franchise in history, it made the author over a billion dollars. That book is for almost no one. Right? That book is for precocious 12-year-olds and people who like to remember what was like to be a precocious 12-year-old. That's not everyone. That's a very small group of people.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  Bandera is a symbol of resistance to Soviet occupation for a fight he could not have led, because he was not in Ukraine at the time.

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  Again, we are talking here about myth and mythology, because Bandera was not leading the fight against the Soviet occupation in Ukraine because, at that time, he was just simply not in Ukraine. He was in Germany.

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  With r-g near zero, any advanced economy running a primary deficit will see its debt-to-GDP ratio rise once existing debt is refinanced at current rates.

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  Thus, once current debt has been refinanced and the average interest on debt reflects the higher long rates, absent changes in policy, debt ratios will increase.

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American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

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  Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman

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  this one is one of the best leadership books I have ever read

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Range

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  I learned this from reading a good, myth-debunking book called Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  The golden-Renaissance myth damages our understanding of the Renaissance itself as badly as it damages our understanding of the Middle Ages.

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  while the myth of the golden Renaissance does terrible damage to how we understand the Middle Ages, it does just as much damage to how we understand the Renaissance.

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  The Myth of the Strong Leader

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  But to read Archie Brown’s fascinating book, The Myth of the Strong Leader, is to see an illustration that leaders like Suárez, who served as prime minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981, possess leadership styles and capacities that are incredibly effective, and depressingly rare.

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