Nathan Lane

Billionaire beef baron says US not producing enough to satisfy protein craze JBS’s Wesley Batista says strong US demand is pushing country towards imports despite Trump’s tariffs

Despite Liberation Day tariffs, beef imports up 30 percent in first half of year, writes @taylornrogers.ft.com et al
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Episode 96: Nathan Lane on South Korea’s Industrial Policy — The Visible Hand

I spoke with the Visible Hand podcast about South Korean industrial policy www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports With almost $800 million in exports, the U.S. is one of Italy's top three export markets for pasta, a staple of the country's culinary heritage and a substantial export commodity.

Italy trying to get US to call off mega tariff on imported pasta that will double prices for American consumers. Via Reuters

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars Labyrinthine restrictions and chronic instability spawn strategies to profit from foreign exchange policies

Milei's need for a US bailout understandably makes headlines.

But also contradictory:

Milei's contempt for markets doing...what markets would do.

There are many reasons why traders would rationally sell pesos (FT).

But no no *this* sell-off is due to enemies & haters.

www.ft.com/content/0425...

Can Italy Finally Build the World’s Longest Suspension Bridge? Italy is planning a mega-bridge to Sicily. Locals want none of it.

A 2-mile-long suspension bridge between Italy and Sicily — the world’s longest of its type — is scheduled to open by 2032. Opponents say it’s a costly waste of time.

Joey Fishkin on the compact balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R 'One Battle After Another' as a car movie

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

Rowan helped push the President of U Penn out. Now he wants to use the power of the government, including tax dollars, to persuade universities to surrender their academic freedom. Because, he believes, he and other rich men know how to run a university better than the faculty.

The Department of Energy’s Latest Cuts Will Hit Red States, Too A list of terminated grants obtained by Heatmap contains a number of grants that will cost jobs and revenue in Republican-led states.

“A list of the 321 canceled grants obtained by Heatmap tells a different story. While much of the funding was awarded to blue state-based companies, the intended projects would have benefitted communities elsewhere, including in Texas, Florida, and Louisiana.”

We’re hiring @ LSE

We have *multiple* economist positions—assistant and associate professor—here at LSE International Development.

Our economics group is expanding and we have exciting stuff planned.

We’re keen on big picture economists.

Feel free to DM me questions.

Knowledge spillovers are key to growth but hard to estimate. Randomly giving out energy-efficient motors to leather-goods firms in Bangladesh led to strong local spillovers, from Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34296

China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.

www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

In a new case study, Sebastian Buck and I unpack the origins & functioning of a €3 billion investment instrument established by the German state of Saarland. Since 2022, the fund has made investments with the twin aims of stabilizing existing industries and enabling long-term transformation⬇️

(This is to say nothing of Twitter's unrelating parade of "hey, let me show the worst of humankind" content)

On the one hand, a downside of BlueSky is that it is harder to follow ML/AI research here.

On the other hand, there is also less ML gibberish and absolutely cooked AI-related content.

Also, reading this made me deeply uncomfortable

“The small body size of Homo floresiensis was likely an adaptation to the unique conditions of their island environment on Flores.”

EU plans tariffs of 25-50% on Chinese steel and related products, Handelsblatt reports The European Commission plans to impose tariffs of 25 to 50% on Chinese steel and related products in the coming weeks, German business daily Handelsblatt reported, citing senior officials in Brussels.

EU plans tariffs of 25-50% on Chinese steel and related products, Handelsblatt reports reut.rs/4njL3al

one of those drop everything and just read it things ….

www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

📢 Conference announcement!

Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation.

If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.

Each time I try to make it through this Walter Mignolo lecture

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Nvidia’s $100bn deal with OpenAI: an Alphaville FAQ [FREE TO READ] All your questions answered, to the best of our abilities

We're just trying to be helpful.

on.ft.com/4gGwMCj

This was really interesting! I had no idea

A Three-Legged Affordability Agenda! Just out from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, by yours truly and the great Neale Mahoney.

New from @nealemahoney.bsky.social and me: "Building an affordable economy: A three-legged stool strategy." Everybody's talking affordability, as they should be! Here's our framework & principles:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Substack summary: econjared.substack.com/p/a-three-le...

Once more: the best evidence shows that Tylenol taken during pregnancy is not harmful. **This question is settled.** The benefit of reducing discomfort and fever is extremely important at a time when the fetus is developing.

Pregnant women - Tylenol is safe.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

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