Eduardo Porter
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Democracy blindsides Silicon Valleyâs power players looking to transform the world with AI (opens the original)
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âThe push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who donât feel they are making the choices in their livesâ The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a Silicon Valley mogul to discuss what a state designed to maximize science and tech powered by commercial models might look like. The gathered technologists were drawn to the idea of building a small nation-state dedicated to the endeavor, Reich recalls in âSystem Error: Where Big Tech Went
Air conditioners are our best bet in the fight against extreme heat â whether we like it or not (opens the original)
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Global AC demand will inevitably accelerate as the world continues to warm amid the climate crisis The greenest campaigners against climate change have long suffered from a crippling shortcoming: they too often frame the challenge as a problem of excess consumption. This motivates calls to âdegrowâ the economy and to curb the population. The claim is that humans consume too many resources, which in the context of climate change means too much energy. Nowhere has the tension between this prop
The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven? (opens the original)
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The bond market is driving the Trump administration crazy. Last week, the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, announced that the government would sharply ramp up its purchase of treasury bonds, in an effort to raise their price and thus push down their yield, which amounts to the interest rate the government pays on its debt. It didn't quite work as planned. Yields on treasurys fell after Bessent's bond market intervention but soon bounced back. By Friday afternoon, the yield on the 10-year treas
The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven? (opens the original)
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The US is scooping up treasury bonds in an effort to raise their price and push yields down – but it’s not working The bond market is driving the Trump administration crazy. Last week, the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, announced that the government would sharply ramp up its purchase of treasury bonds, in an effort to raise their price and thus push down their yield, which amounts to the interest rate the government pays on its debt. It didn’t quite work as planned. Yields on treasurys fell
âStarve the beastâ? The $40tn cost of Republicansâ false promises to cut spending (opens the original)
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The enormous US debt under Trump will hobble the next Democratic administration â just as the GOP planned Why is the Trump administration causing turmoil in the bond markets? You could pin the USâs staggering $40tn in government debt to Donald Trumpâs Keystone Cops-style governance. Tariffs he sold as a new source of revenue were struck down by the supreme court, forcing the government to return tens of billions of dollars to importers. Elon Muskâs âdepartment of government efficiencyâ
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