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Read this korrent: A modern shipyard can match a whole wartime industrial mobilisation with a fraction of the workers.
A modern shipyard can match a whole wartime industrial mobilisation with a fraction of the workers.
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Jan 2024
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-01-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: American shipyards are unproductive rather than expensive: their workers are paid about what Korean and Japanese shipyard workers are paid. — tap to centre the map on it
American shipyards are unproductive rather than expensive: their workers are paid about what Korean and…
Last stated 3 years ago
3 Jan 2024
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2024-01-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: American shipbuilding has been uncompetitive for a century; it is not a recent decline. — tap to centre the map on it
American shipbuilding has been uncompetitive for a century; it is not a recent decline.
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Sept 2024
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Brian Potter — holds since 2024-09-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: American shipbuilding capacity has collapsed to a rounding error beside China's. — tap to centre the map on it
American shipbuilding capacity has collapsed to a rounding error beside China's.
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Sept 2024
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Dan Wang — holds since 2024-01-23 — tap for who they are
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Brian Potter — holds since 2024-09-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Whether a country builds ships well comes down to whether it actually wants to compete internationally, and America never has. — tap to centre the map on it
Whether a country builds ships well comes down to whether it actually wants to compete internationally, and America…
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Sept 2024
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Brian Potter — holds since 2024-09-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Wartime shipbuilding surges have never left America with a commercial shipbuilding industry afterwards. — tap to centre the map on it
Wartime shipbuilding surges have never left America with a commercial shipbuilding industry afterwards.
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Sept 2024
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Brian Potter — holds since 2024-09-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: For small strategic materials markets like rare earths the right policy is a stockpile, not domestic production. — tap to centre the map on it
For small strategic materials markets like rare earths the right policy is a stockpile, not domestic production.
Last stated 7 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The United States is good at high-volume manufacturing and bad at low-volume manufacturing, and that is what its industrial weakness actually consists of. — tap to centre the map on it
The United States is good at high-volume manufacturing and bad at low-volume manufacturing, and that is…
Last stated 7 months ago
12 Feb 2026
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Austin Vernon — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Commercial shipbuilding keeps moving to whichever country has the cheapest labour, and America has never been that country. — tap to centre the map on it
Commercial shipbuilding keeps moving to whichever country has the cheapest labour, and America has never been that…
Last stated 2 years ago
5 Sept 2024
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Brian Potter — holds since 2024-09-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Cutting off trade with tariffs would force a huge interest-rate spike and probably a debt crisis, because the budget deficit would have to be financed at home. — tap to centre the map on it
Cutting off trade with tariffs would force a huge interest-rate spike and probably a debt crisis…
Last stated a year ago
14 Apr 2025
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John H. Cochrane — holds since 2025-04-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Reducing trade deficits and reviving manufacturing would not end the resentment fueling right-wing authoritarian movements. — tap to centre the map on it
Reducing trade deficits and reviving manufacturing would not end the resentment fueling right-wing authoritarian…
Last stated today
7 Sept 2026
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Paul Krugman — holds since 2026-09-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Tariffs on Chinese clean energy reduce the total number of clean-energy jobs, because most of those jobs are in deployment rather than manufacturing. — tap to centre the map on it
Tariffs on Chinese clean energy reduce the total number of clean-energy jobs, because most of those jobs are in…
Last stated a year ago
15 May 2025
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Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2025-05-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work. — tap to centre the map on it
A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and…
Last stated a month ago
7 Aug 2026
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Max Hodak — holds since 2026-08-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it. — tap to centre the map on it
A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it.
Last stated 12 months ago
10 Sept 2025
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Ursula von der Leyen — holds since 2025-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A tiny fraction of ancestry can carry the most important thing about a population: Yamnaya is only a few percent of DNA in India and yet it brought the language. — tap to centre the map on it
A tiny fraction of ancestry can carry the most important thing about a population: Yamnaya is only a few percent…
Last stated 4 months ago
8 May 2026
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David Reich — holds since 2026-05-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Environmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one. — tap to centre the map on it
Environmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing…
Last stated 3 years ago
10 Nov 2023
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2023-11-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Delay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did. — tap to centre the map on it
Delay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did.
Last stated 3 years ago
10 Nov 2023
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2023-11-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Getting a data centre permitted in the empty middle of America is far easier than putting one in orbit. — tap to centre the map on it
Getting a data centre permitted in the empty middle of America is far easier than putting one in orbit.
Last stated 6 months ago
13 Mar 2026
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Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
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