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... A Chinese student reflects on why her country is authoritarian—and how democracy has a chance. <em>Look for AP’s symposium on the China challenge, in partnership with the Hoover Institution, in early spring.</em> ...
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... One of the worst aspects of current politics is the bipartisan consensus that America kind of sucks. On the left you have the relentless negativity of woke politics. On the right you have the relentless negativity of Trumpism. ...
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... Or to put it another way, no sign inflation is getting entrenched 3/ ...
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... I offered to do this work for free but he said it was better to pay for legal reasons. I expect to do a bit more of this in 2022. Our subscription revenues aren't yet close replacing my Ars salary. ...
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... I also think this chart is consistent with the explanation I prefer—that causation mostly runs from bad macroeconomic policy to a housing crash, rather than the other way around. ...
... At a minimum, there's no reason the US housing downturn needed to be as extreme as it was. Looser money could have produced a 10 or 20 percent price drop in housing rather than 30 percent. That would have meant a milder recession and perhaps no financial crisis in 2008. ...
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... So if Newt Gingrich forced the BLS to lower the CPI as a backdoor way of cutting Social Security payments, did he force the BEA to do the same thing so it wouldn't look suspicious? ...
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... It is not, however, a major reason for the acceleration of inflation in 2021, nor can a crackdown on monopoly do a lot to bring inflation down. But what does that tell us? ...
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... Given this apparent trend, we use the motivating example of mental time travel in humans to propose ways in which insights from each of the three theories may be combined into a unified model. ...
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... There are some insights from this [article](https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/dreaming-of-democracy-in-china/) by an anonymous writer - particularly the categorization of China as an egoist society. Although this is probably not due to the "Class struggle" as suggested by the article. ...
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... Human has been organizing thoughts/ideas in story-like linear ways since the beginning of human culture. Books, talks, and lectures are all examples of such organizations. It's not the only way we convey ideas, e.g. day to day conversations usually are more or less structure-free and spontaneous. ...
... In the Internet age, Twitter and other social media provide new ways to perform such conversations multilaterally, but they are not well structured. ...
... The mainstream way to communicate larger groups of thoughts/ideas in a structured way remains to be the linear structure as in books, lectures, podcasts, etc. Though they have two main shortcomings 1. ...
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... Group discussions, online communities, and coffee shop conversations are traditional ways for participants to exchange ideas. Ideas are usually freely bouncing around between participants. ...
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... That is can serve as framework or foundation for building consensus among the community of inquiriers. ...
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