AI and the death of macroeconomics as we knew it

December 04, 2025

AI and the death of macroeconomics as we knew it

It’s not inflation or recession that has blindsided traditional macroeconomists, but irrelevance. Artificial intelligence has not just transformed markets but made our dominant frameworks for understanding them obsolete. For over a century, macroeconomics has relied on tools honed in the industrial age: GDP to measure growth, yield curves to signal recessions, and productivity metrics built […]

What are Trump’s motivations in Venezuela?

If you take his comments at face value, President Donald Trump’s objectives in Venezuela seem clear enough: dictator President Nicolas Maduro needs to pack up his things and get out of Caracas before it’s too late. Trump reportedly reiterated that demand during last week’s phone call with Maduro, even as he rejected the Venezuelan dictator’s demands […]

The GOP underperformance in Tennessee matters less than you think

A favorite pastime of election watchers and political operatives is to extrapolate every little detail possible from the results of an off-year or off-cycle election. This week was no different. On Tuesday night, Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps successfully held Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District for the GOP, while underperforming the district’s recent GOP margins. […]

Karine Jean-Pierre was no Jackie Robinson

Former President Joe Biden perfectly demonstrated the folly of liberal diversity, equity, and inclusion policies when he hired Karine Jean-Pierre as his White House press secretary. Jean-Pierre was not fit for the job, everyone admits today. Her promotion to a job for which she was clearly unqualified pokes a hole in many liberal arguments for […]

Tennessee is a warning for the GOP

Former Army helicopter pilot Matt Van Epps bucked the recent trend of right-wing electoral disasters on Tuesday, defeating Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn in the special House election for my district, Tennessee‘s 7th Congressional District, after Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) announced his resignation this summer. Amid the bizarre pattern of nationalizing local politics, middle Tennessee […]

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Tennessee special election brings bad news for both parties

Shortly after Republican candidate Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in an off-year special House election in Tennessee, media in Washington, D.C., immediately began the time-honored tradition of hyperanalyzing the outcome to predict the fortunes of political parties. These elections, though, rarely tell us anything useful. In 2023, Democrats won off-year races in Virginia, […]

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