Society

Wages Are Slow, Home Prices Keep Rising, and AI Is Coming

Paychecks move slowly while rents, asset prices and the lives on social feeds seem to move faster. Add AI anxiety, and the investing app starts to feel like a small accelerator in the hand.

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Society

The Thucydides Trap: U.S.-China Conflict Is Starting to Resemble 1914

The U.S.-China rivalry is often called a new Cold War. But the pre-1914 Britain-Germany analogy captures something colder: an incumbent’s fear and a rising power’s grievance slowly turning trade, technology, and alliances into strategic costs.

2026-05-2017 min readRead →

Society

Is the AI Revolution a Second Industrial Revolution?

The AI revolution is starting to resemble the Industrial Revolution. It is worth asking whether its consequences will resemble it as well.

2026-05-1914 min readRead →