#Economics

1. As meat prices rise, the economics of Texas barbecue. 2. Economic historian Eric Jones has passed away. 3. Claims about the Pope and Claude. If true, further evidence for my Straussian hypothesis. 4. Koyama reviews Tyler Goodspeed on business cycles.…

AI is not replacing all jobs yet, but it is already polarizing labor markets. See which countries and sectors face the sharpest unemployment risks in 2026.

From Dev.to - ai: AI and the Economics of Attention: When Code Becomes Identity Expression

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

From Buzzfeed Latest: The Average Person Can't Score Higher Than 37% On This Vintage Home Economics Quiz, And It's Kinda Sad

The July 1958 issue of Argosy Magazine ran "Live Now—Pay Later" by Carlton Brown, capturing the moment America gleefully abandoned its Puritan thrift hangover for installment plans. By 1958, Brown…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on Indians to avoid buying gold for at least a year to preserve foreign-exchange reserves, a surprising appeal in a country where the metal plays a vital role in savings, weddings and religious festivals.

From Nypost RSS Feed: Trump’s top economic adviser predicts explosive 6% annual GDP growth, nearly triple most forecasts

A fresh batch of consumer price data in the coming week is likely to affirm Americans’ growing frustration with inflation.

Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, describes how A.I.-related layoffs are testing the resilience of the government’s safety net programs.

President Javier Milei and leading experts are at odds over whether Argentina’s economy has recovered from a recent wobble, highlighting the challenges involved in gauging whether the reformer’s shock therapy policies are working as intended.

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ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

Distributive justice is often considered not to belong to the scope of economics, but there is actually an important literature in economics that addresses normative issues in social and economic justice.…

Every morning, 733 million people wake up hungry. They have a need - urgent and real. But in the...

British builders posted the largest decline in output since November as the Iran war pushed up input prices and discouraged sales.

From Buzzfeed RSS Feed: If You Can Pass This 6th Grade Home Ec Test, You’re Officially More Responsible Than Most Adults

From Techmeme: RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

From Techmeme: a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (Yogita Khatri/The Block)