Analysis

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The M7 Rifle: Another Dubious Defense Decision

The Army’s new M7 rifle and 6.8mm cartridge deliver greater range and armor penetration, but at the cost of heavier ammunition, reduced magazine capacity and increased soldier burden. The larger...

“The State of Working Wisconsin, 2026”

From the High Road Strategy Center, an annual report: Wisconsin job growth grinds to a halt Wisconsin had 3,042,900 jobs in July 2026, down from the record 3,051,000 jobs reached in November 2024....

Tuesday assorted links

1. Designing a FINRA for frontier AI. 2. Andrew Ng. 3. Some semi-skeptical notes on stablecoins, based on economic history. 4. Global views on fairness and redistribution. 5. Essays on whether AI...

Gasoline and Diesel Report

Data through yesterday: Figure 1: Regular gasoline (blue, left scale), diesel (red, left scale), jet fuel-kerosene (green, left scale), all $/gal., and spot price Brent oil (black, right scale),...

Could You Survive the Oregon Trail? An Emergency Medicine Doctor Offers Tips on How to Not Die in the Great Outdoors

How do the lessons of survival in ‘The Oregon Trail’ computer game apply to surviving in America today?

Dartmouth Provost okie-dokie

On Aug. 26, a Semafor investigation using Pangram to determine whether recent guest columns in major newspapers were written using artificial intelligence identified a column by Schnell as “100%...

Links 9/22/2026

Michael Hudson: Unite, Ye Downtrodden! Support Naked Capitalism’s Opposition to Extraction-Serving Economic Ideas

Support Naked Capitalism in helping ordinary citizens help themselves! Help take on the ideas and policies of rentier capitalism.

Brazil’s Lula Government Proposes to Ban Online Casinos Less Than Two Weeks Before Presidential Elections

Brazilian football clubs have warned of "fatal blow" to national sport as concerns about the impact of online gambling grow worldwide.