It is National Small Business week. Can Congress declare next week National Big Business week? After all big biz pay their workers more, provides better benefits, exports more, innovates more, etc.

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According to Census new business formation has dramatically increased. But wait: the neo-Brandeisians have been saying that change in biz formation is an indicator of market power. I guess this means that market power is going down.
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Anyone care about this? Anyone? BLS finds that productivity falls in 63 of 91 manufacturing and mining industries in 2023. Snooze. Can you find me one economic reporter who even mentioned this?

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Lots of discussion about why Canada should establish a productivity commission modeled after Australia. Professor Roy Green explains why Aussies are not the model. Roy Green The Logic

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My Tech Myth of the Week: 'Small Businesses Create Most of the New Jobs and Innovation'

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Our new report is out assessing Canada's performance and structure in Innovation, Productivity and Competitiveness. Many challenges to be faced.

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The Threat of “AI Safety” to American AI Leadership nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/…

Just what we need: a state regulating AI. R U kidding.
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In rereading Bill Joy's famous Wired article I am struck by two things. 1) He was wrong then and he's wrong now; and 2) how slow technological change is. Most of what he anticipated for now has not even come close.

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Canada's trends and size of advanced industries since 1995. Only 'other transport is in the upper right quadrant of strength and growth. public.tableau.com/shared/Y8WWNMK… via Tableau Public

“40 Policies That Will Define the 2024 Election. “ I Am surprised they didn’t list give every citizen $20,000. Would have been the number 1 vote getter. What happened to JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you”? @thelibpatriot open.substack.com/pub/theliberal…

Tech Myth of the Week: 'We Need to Tax Robots and Give People Universal Basic Income'. Only if we want to turn people into low-income wards of the state.

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We now live in a world where no one is allowed to lose their job due to technology. This is also a world where living standards stagnate
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In understanding the China advanced industry & tech challenge the discipline of economics is:

A Transatlantic G2 Against Chinese Technology Dominance itif.org/publications/2…

🔖 MUST READ: Technology & tech companies are accused of creating myriad societal problems. In a new book from Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan, Robert D. Atkinson & David Moschella expose these charges as mostly myths, falsehoods & exaggerations. 🧵 1/10 itif.org/publications/2…

JAMA Study on Price of Diabetes Medicines is Deceiving and Threatens Medical Innovation atr.org/jama-study-on-…

FTC Finally doing something to protect consumers ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Had to be. USG has tradition of using antitrust attacks just as a company is losing market share. Apple loses top spot as world’s largest phone seller
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Fantastic new study measuring Chinese industrial subsidies from the Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel) . Should be a wake up call for EU and US.
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