James Surowiecki
Contributing Writer at Fast Company
Contributing Writer at The Atlantic
Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Contributing writer for Fast Company and The Atlantic. Editor at The Yale Review. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.
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1 week ago |
devicedaily.com | James Surowiecki
Social Security sending out checks to millions of dead people? It’s not just false. It’s absurd Elon Musk’s easily disprovable misrepresentation of a table of numbers threatens to erode confidence in one of the most reliable programs we have. Social Security has been considered among the most efficient, cleanest government programs in the country.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | James Surowiecki
Listen1.0x0:0014:18Listen to more stories on harkAnother day, another new AI large language model that’s supposedly better than all previous ones. When I began writing this story, Elon Musk’s xAI had just released Grok 3, which the company says performs better than its competitors against a wide range of benchmarks. As I was revising the article, Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which it says outperforms Grok 3. And by the time you read this, who knows?
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2 weeks ago |
devicedaily.com | James Surowiecki
Trump just drove a truck through Congress’s massive tariff loopholes The Constitution doesn’t give presidents the power to impose tariffs. But Trump is taking advantage of the loopholes Congress created over the past 60 years.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | James Surowiecki
After Thursday’s stock-market sell-off provoked by Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States would be imposing new tariffs on almost every country in the world, the one thing we can say for sure is that Wall Street blew it. In the three trading days leading up to Trump’s much-anticipated “Liberation Day” speech, the market rose steadily as investors apparently convinced themselves that Trump would not do anything too crazy. Surely moderation would prevail.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | James Surowiecki
Obama says he is 'deeply concerned' with the Trump administration's targeting of students, journalists and law firmsHis comments came on the same day that former Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke out against the administration. Former President Barack Obama said he is "deeply concerned" with some of the actions that President Donald Trump and his administration have taken and seemed to call out the …
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Lesson #1 should be: Tariffs are a regressive tax paid by American businesses and consumers, not by foreign countries.
🚨 JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launches an all-out push for financial literacy among Americans. He says everyone should become financially literate. https://t.co/S3wCiaswO5
Because she couldn't use a credit card to pay for those things?
A DHS spokesperson confirms to Scripps that Sec Noem had a large amount of cash on her that was stolen because her entire family was in town and she was using the withdrawal to treat her family to dinner, activities, and Easter gifts.
I don't hear an actual denial.
.@SecDef Hegseth on "Signal chat controversy": "What a big surprise that a few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out from the same media that peddled the Russia hoax, won't give back their Pulitzers, they got Pulitzers for a bunch of lies ... This is what https://t.co/qYH8O98EtX
