State Dept says its strategy for Africa is "trade not aid". Funny way of showing it.

Wow.

I think I verbally cite this paper every other week in conversations with people about how they're presenting/interpreting their cross-cut experiments

Just keep writing that same paper over and over again

US effective tariff rates as of May 22nd. (Data in post by Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Ignacio Albe) cgdev.org/media/us-tarif…

The times we live in. How will Beijing react? Publicly, my wager is they'll object and condemn this move. Privately, I think there will be some corks popped.

jesus

Hey look, it's Alice Evans on the NYT homepage! nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opi…

New piece with Rafael Dib applying prioritisation frameworks to science funding. How should a grantmaker aiming at health impact pick areas to fund, when science is so hard to predict? We argue you can get pretty far, because today's spending is weird: blog.jacobtrefethen.com/vaccines/

"What instead happened was that almost all USAID programs were simply terminated, with no attention to minimizing disruption, and no plan to replace them with local charities, and so probably several million people will die." (seems bad) astralcodexten.com/p/sorry-i-stil…

I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…

It took only 8 years for solar to go from 100 to 1,000 TWh... then it took only 3 years to go from 1,000 to 2,000 TWh. Solar is growing faster than any source of electricity in history ☀️