Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos | Propublica | Peter Elkind | buff.ly/i1T60W2

Trump's United States of Emergency | AXIOS | Zachary Basu | buff.ly/dcD5H22 "...the sirens never stop."

Probability of VTRR 90% | Apollo Academy | Torsten Sløk | buff.ly/GryILrx VTRR = Voluntary Trade Reset Recession

The U.S. Labor Force Over the Past 150 Years | A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson | buff.ly/r4R90Xi "The combination of AI and robotics will further disrupt the labor force in ways most people can’t even imagine right now."

DHL suspends high value US deliveries over tariffs | BBC | Dearbail Jordan | buff.ly/i2t7vYa

The pundit's dilemma | Noah Smith | buff.ly/ROQKIaM "Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That's a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow."

Always Invert | The Better Letter | Bob Seawright | buff.ly/An4KjcY "...our first goal should be to avoid failure – to limit mistakes."

Why taste matters now more than ever | Fast Company | Elliot Vredenburg | buff.ly/HsPMoxb " In the age of AI, design is less about making and more about meaning."

FDA cuts may mean even less oversight of pet food | The Incidental Economist | Katherine O'Malley | buff.ly/bdPNtgH

Craft beer market declines 4% in 2024 | AXIOS | John Frank | buff.ly/H5JNxAq " 9,612 craft breweries were operating last year."

Guest Contribution: “How to Forecast a Recession” | Econbrowser | Menzie Chinn | buff.ly/V3jxtVE Guest post with Jeffrey Frankel

Why Macro Forecasting Is Impossible | The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | buff.ly/C9wZowI "There are simply too many variables, each dependent on and reflecting even more variables, to pretend we truly know what will happen next."

An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online | GIZMODO | Vanessa Taylor | buff.ly/2cNuYt6

The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen | The Verge | Tim Stevens | buff.ly/XZtiNX5 Awesome idea

An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months | The Verge | Emma Roth | buff.ly/El0DmnS

The Real Problem With GDP | Tim Harford | buff.ly/eJBxC1P

Apollo's Chief Economist, Torsten Slok, Estimates a 90 Percent Odds of Recession | Economics Matters by Laurence Kotlikoff |buff.ly/UYeUIBB

Schlock and Awww | The Edgy Optimist | Zachary Karabell | buff.ly/LOJQdQ6

Florida, once considered a swing state, is firmly Republican – a social anthropologist explains what caused this shift | The Conversation | buff.ly/hSwqEgQ

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