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Noah Smith

The college shakeout, China vs. its developing neighbors, Chinese zombie companies, more fun YIMBY stuff, and the victory of the Melting Pot

The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself, and it's mostly not Biden's doing.

Our low life expectancy is partly a function of the ways we deal with stress.

It's not an anti-NATO, it's not going to replace the dollar, and it's not going to control global economic growth.

"Bullshit jobs", racial depolarization, the YIMBY-union alliance, China's last boosters, Biden's foreign policy, low-carbon steel, and Javier Milei

No one has any idea how to stop the decline, so we need to prepare for the consequences.

A short, simplistic, but fairly reasonable story.

But not enough researchers are paying attention, and we only know a little so far.

There are some vulnerabilities, but the good will mostly balance out the bad.

It made some good points, and some not-so-good points.