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And here's the item-by-item list of programs inventoried in our new brief on federal "place-based" industrial policy in the 117th Congress.
The nation has arrived at a significant new juncture in economic policy
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If you're against immigration for ethnonationalist reasons, you then find yourself to be anti-tech sector an anti-climate growth. But pretty obvious where it starts
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Immigration is America’s superpower.
This should be a huge concern for US policymakers:
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It's good to be a Yankee fan. But I am not a Yankee fan.
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Rodon Yankees deal: 6/162mm. Full no trade
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🚀 Faster, Please! — The Podcast #16 (+ transcript)
⤴️ A conversation with sociologist Fuller on Up Wing vs. Down Wing politics ⤵️
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GOLDMAN SACHS: "China’s covid surge and reopening pivot prompted us to lower our China annual average growth forecast to 2.6% in 2022 (vs. 3% previously) but raise it to 5.2% in 2023 (vs. 4.5% previously)"
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That'll play | "It is a long development path but it will accelerate," says Nigel Woolsey, a professor of physics at the University of York. He estimates scientists could demonstrate a plant that produces fusion energy at scale in 10 to 20 years."
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"Ramping up fusion R&D should not distract from the need to improve the proven nuclear fission technology that powers existing power stations, particularly by introducing a new generation of small modular reactors."
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"Few scientific endeavors have been dogged by so many dead ends and false claims. But this has blinded us to the fact that, disappointments aside, scientists have been making slow but steady progress on fusion far longer than many people realize."
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"R&D investments and public-private sector partnerships are valuable. But too often we kind of just assume the free enterprise system will work its magic — no matter now we tax it or regulate it or cut off its supply of talent or stymie trade."
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. wrote a story earlier this month about how Trump's campaign doesn't seem to be doing much
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Anyway, Trump teased a "MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT" and then launched a line of NFTs today
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Great, great stuff here
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* Incomes for typical households have not been stagnant for decades.
* Income inequality (holistically measured) has not been rising over the past decade.
The conventional wisdom has both these points backwards.
My latest @ProSyn column: project-syndicate.org/commentary/myt
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By the way, this from my colleague is a short-but-powerful -- much like Wolverine -- analysis of what's *really* been happening with American incomes, mobility, and inequality. Great stocking stuffer!🎄
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"R&D investments and public-private sector partnerships are valuable. But too often we kind of just assume the free enterprise system will work its magic — no matter now we tax it or regulate it or cut off its supply of talent or stymie trade."
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"The bottom 20% of households enjoyed even greater gains, with market income growth of 51% and after-tax-and-transfer income growth of 74%."
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The Myth of Income Stagnation, via @MichaelRStrain project-syndicate.org/commentary/myt
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Gut-wrenching story | "The average life expectancy from the moment of diagnosis is three to five years."
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Nigerian farmers celebrate harvest first batch of biotech-potatoes with joy! Shame on anti-GM activists who had prevented this incredible product from reaching African farmers so far with their relentless propaganda and misinformation
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For those just learning of the ISS Soyuz leak, this is a handy summary by Eric Berger of the implications
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A Russian spacecraft started leaking uncontrollably on Wednesday night arstechnica.com/science/2022/1 by @SciGuySpace
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Problem with Soyuz MS-22 on the ISS right now!
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Substitute "tweet" for "tune" and it me
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“Everything I’ve done, there’s a little something I’d like to tweak. I’m still hunting down the great tune I’ve never written. It’s somewhere out there and that’s what makes me get up in the morning.”
— Hans Zimmer, even after all his bangers
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"During the next hundred years, the question for those who love liberty is whether we can survive the most insidious and duplicitous attacks from within, from those who undermine the virtues of our people, doing in advance the work of the Father of Lies." - Michael Novak
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"During the next hundred years, the question for those who love liberty is whether we can survive the most insidious and duplicitous attacks from within, from those who undermine the virtues of our people, doing in advance the work of the Father of Lies." - Michael Novak
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"In fact, demographic decline means that liberal, growth-boosting reforms are more vital than ever." | economist.com/leaders/2022/1 Why are the rich world’s politicians giving up on economic growth? -
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"It’s already evident from the situation in Beijing, which is the epicenter of the current outbreak, that fears of infection are enough to keep most people at home, even in the absence of government restrictions." -
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"America’s allergy to new nuclear power is the slow-burning equivalent of Merkel’s blunder. Just 10 Americans have been killed by civil nuclear power, none from radiation. Last year tens of thousands of Americans died from air pollution."
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The Chicago White Sox are working on signing a left fielder, per @thekapman.
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🚀 Was Ronald Reagan anti-progress? (Spoiler: He was not.)
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Jeff Bezos' Mama Bear diapers along with lots of other household necessities delivered to our doorstep create hours of time each week that my family can spend doing things that are more fun than running errands. Like going for nice bike rides.
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Amazing sentence: "Americans are enslaved to the one-click shopping addictions of Jeff Bezos’s 'neo-Dickensian' horror show" 
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I'm really happy about the nuclear fusion breakthrough -- but the lack of off-season moves by the Cubs and White Sox, and losing Henry Cavill as Superman has me totally
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Anyone need a sobering reminder as to why we want it clean and cheap?
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By the way, this to me is maybe the first episode it feels fully like a "Lost" episode
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I am on S1:11 of my "Lost" rewatch. When that piece of garbage Ethan shows up, the stakes increase and the show 
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Sigur Ros 🇮🇸 ✌️🌹
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What's the band or artist you've seen the most in concert?
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🏝 I am on S1:11 of my "Lost" rewatch. When that piece of garbage Ethan shows up, the stakes increase and the show ↗️
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We now live in a world where you can listen to the sound of the first dust devil ever recorded on Mars from your phone.🤩
These recordings from will allow scientists to study the Martian wind, atmospheric turbulence, and dust movement.🌪️
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The future will be better than we imagine or can imagine.
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