First of all, Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Now, here's the news.
Written by Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson the hillMarch 7, 2024.
excerpt:
recent Biden administration promised Less than a week after the purse strings of the $39 billion CHIPS Act subsidy to encourage semiconductor manufacturing in the United States finally loosened, Intel announced The company says it is putting the brakes on the Columbus factory. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) pushed back Produced at a second foundry in Arizona. Samsung, the remaining major chip maker, delay First Texas factory.
Excerpt after giving reasons:
The law includes 19 provisions aimed at supporting minority groups, including a provision that would put a chief diversity officer at the National Science Foundation and what would be called „minority-serving institutions.“ The agreement also includes provisions prioritizing scientific cooperation. A section called „Opportunity and Inclusion“ directs the Commerce Department to work with minority-owned companies to help chip makers „increase the participation of economically disadvantaged people in the semiconductor workforce.“
HT2 commenter Ahmed Fares linked to this later article.
Levitt interview by John Hartley, 21st Century Capitalism and Freedom PodcastMarch 7, 2024.
Note: I read transcripts because I can read about 6-8 times faster than I can listen. However, the record is „unclear.“ For example, „U of C“ is clearly the University of Chicago, but is recognized as the UFC.
excerpt:
Because when you're on the job market, when you're a young academic, you have to convince the faculty who's hiring you that you have those abilities. Because for some reason there's this idea that technique, knowing how to do difficult things, technical skills are what's really important. Precious. Or maybe you know a formula for writing difficult types of papers.
my comment
When I entered the job market, this concept didn't exist. I had just turned 24 and was interviewed at his AEA meeting in San Francisco in December 1974. UCLA, where I was working on my thesis, was pretty hot at the time, so I had interviews with a lot of top schools, including Northwestern University. I remember Northwestern in particular. I was interested in energy economics, so I started reading some popular publications. One was about all the small mines that closed after the Coal Mine Safety Act of 1969 was passed. Is there any connection? There is definitely hell out there, and showing that was a big part of my doctoral thesis. I confess that part of my interest was due to the fact that in the summer of 1969 I was working in an underground nickel mine in northern Manitoba.
In other words, I chose a topic because I was interested in it, it seemed important, and I thought I could do it too. I literally didn't think, „What would a leading economist find interesting?“ I didn't care. And I'm glad I didn't have to worry about it. I marched to the beat of my own drummer from an early age. Cue Mama Cass singing my favorite song. ”make your own music”
At that time, you were interviewed in a hotel suite with three or four faculty members from your university. One or two of her girlfriends on the Northwestern faculty seemed to be interested, and I could tell. Dale Mortensen's expression and body language wanted me to get out of there. He wasn't rude. He wasn't interested at all. (Incidentally, Mortensen won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics.)
I'd like to add one more thing. If you decide to work on something that others are interested in but you are not interested in, do you know what will happen if you succeed? You will also have more opportunities to work on things you are not interested in. When I accepted the job at the Council of Economic Advisers under Murray Weidenbaum and arrived there two weeks before Murray left and Marty Feldstein showed up, who was there and who was under Marty? I looked around to see who would show up (I accurately predicted Larry Summers and Paul Krugman) and realized there was no one who could cover health policy. Health economics has always fascinated me. On Marty's first day on the job, as we went around the room saying our names and where we were from, I unconventionally said: Health economist. ” Krugman and Summers sat at Marty's end of the room and looked at each other. One said something to the other – I can’t remember which – and the other chuckled. I laughed at the end. Two hours later, Marty invited me into his office and handed me my work.
There's a lot of good stuff in John's interviews, so I recommend listening to and reading them. All.
tucker carlson interviewMarch 11, 2024.
Tucker was pretty mean to Chris Cuomo when Carlson had his own show on Fox News and Cuomo had his own show on CNN. But after Mr. Tucker was fired, Mr. Cuomo called him to offer moral support. That in itself impressed me. This almost two-hour interview has received a lot of good comments, including approximate timestamps.
15:30. Mr. Cuomo: The president has the power to start a war, and Congress won't fight back. As a result, they will be involved in a terrible war.
54:00. Mr. Cuomo does not differentiate between men and women when it comes to who should be shot.
1:01:00. Mr. Cuomo: The events of January 6, 2021 were a riot, not a riot. Without guns, there can be no rebellion.
1:21:46. Mr. Cuomo: Negativity is a proxy for insight.
1:35:20. Mr. Cuomo quotes Mr. Marcus Aurelius.
There are many other good parts as well.
My opinion of Carlson has gone up a bit. Because he had the decency to invite Cuomo and also admitted that he (Carlson) did something stupid. Then my opinion changed when he said his next two things. (1) It is never justified to hit or shoot a woman, and (2) one should always stand by the family, regardless of the truth.
My rating of Mr. Cuomo was low because he lied about staying in his basement after contracting the coronavirus. But the feeling was heightened by seeing him make such a clear distinction that, surprisingly, from my perspective, he was Tucker Carlson's intellectual superior.