Founder of RealityChek - a blog covering economics, national security, tech, & their intersections. Also checking in regularly on the general human condition.
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Yet more on Nvidia artificial intelligence semiconductors and China: A report that the Trump admin will OK the sale of the company's 2d best such chip. The rationale: It's 18 months behind the best GPU. But could it help China reverse engineer its way to more progress anyway?
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🛑 ALERT - Chinese BOMBSHELL on the U.S. Installed Solar Base from Reuters’ @sarah_mcfarlane this morning. China can weaponize the entire installed solar base in America (and Western Europe) with rogue components they installed with any disclosure on 🧵 reuters.com/sustainability/c…
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My new RealityChek post reports that the widely predicted burst of inflationary tariff-induced panic-buying keeps failing to show up in the official data - in this case, this AM's US CPI report.
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WaPo reporters @Carolynyjohnson & @JoelAchenbach (w/editors' approval) write that "NIH employees by nature are not the types to go rogue. They follow the rules." Like Fauci funding gain of function research in China, & he & Collins furiously working to suppress Covid dissent?
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Coincidence that US credit card debt has soared during the Bidenflation years?
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How Important Was Immigration in the 2024 Election?
Analysis from Democratic polling initiative @Blueprint_2024 shows that it was critical, especially to swing voters and some surprising demographic groups
cis.org/Arthur/How-Important… via @CIS_org
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"...in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table, the three will plead guilty to all charges, including the murder of 2,976 people": abcnews.go.com/Politics/911-… #KhalidSheikhMohammed #AlQaeda #September11 #terrorism #Guantanamo #Gitmo
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Frank Shrontz, former CEO and chairman of Boeing, who led the company through development of the 737NG and 777 jets, died Friday at 92.
He was the last Boeing leader before strategy and culture shifted after the McDonnell Douglas merger
The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/business/bo…
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"#Malaysia has a 50yr history in the “back end” of the #chips #manufacturing supply chain: packaging, assembling & testing. But it has ambitions to jump to the front...incl higher value activities such as wafer fabrication & integrated circuit design"
ft.com/content/4e0017e8-fb48…
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Soft data, but still.... Also, this is #China's official #manufacturing #PMI. Maybe another reason that the real situation is worse? cnbc.com/2024/01/31/china-pm… #economy #mfg #ChineseCentury?
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Wow! In #China, #France's #Macron "agreed to 'deepen exchanges' between the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Southern Theater and the French military units in the Pacific"???? washingtonpost.com/opinions/… #geopolitics #IndoPacific #allies?
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I’ve been a subscriber for over 30 years, but their leniency towards China and its barely-disguised mercantilism has been maddening, especially for a magazine that prides itself on promoting free trade.
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New York’s Migrant Tent City Is Mostly Empty
Fewer people are taking buses from Texas following Biden’s new policy making it easier to expel Venezuelan migrants to Mexico
wsj.com/articles/new-yorks-m… So bus strategy worked--Dem mayors called Biden & got the door closed to Venezuelans.
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This argument—RT’d by the eugenics group Numbers USA—is that immigration in modern America has *hurt* productivity is very bad for many reasons—notably that the decade of actual productivity increases came directly after the 1986 legalization AND 1990 legal immigration expansion!
ICYMI, my new #RealityChek post examines a new book - and a review thereof - that seem at least as notable for what they don't say about #immigration & the #economy than for what they do say: alantonelson.wordpress.com/2… #immigrants #economics #productivity #innovation CC @Mike_Luca
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BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani after Supreme Court rejects Texas bid to overturn election: 'We're not finished'
"There's nothing that prevents us from filing these cases immediately in the district court"
washex.am/3qNYBy2 -- for @dcexaminer
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4. It's hard to imagine at this point that #Covid19 pandemic won't also surpass the death toll of the 1957 flu pandemic, which killed 1.1M people worldwide & 116,000 Americans.
So #NotJustTheFlu.
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Hour 1: @BrettArends, Roman Buhler, GC, @charles_burton, @AlanTonelson
Hour 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter,
Bob Zimmerman
Hour 3: @JCats2013, @lanheechen, GC, James Holmes, Greg Scarlatoiu
Hour 4: The Conquering Tide By, @IanWToll
#Batchelorshow #TalkRadio #politics