The big groups also account for much of the healthcare employment boom reported today. www.kff.org/health-costs...

Southeast Asia economics story is a work in progress. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

One more drag on what remains of the local press. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/terr...

A Bush43 terrorism advisor in this video admits to authoring the 3.5-oz. rule on airlines and otherwise credits the operation of TSA. www.cfr.org/event/twenty...

Will it soon build only with BRICS? www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Yep. And future Trumps. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

A milestone passing for Sag Harbor. His role was also noted in my recent posting (timwferguson.com/2026/01/16/e...) www.27east.com/sag-harbor-e...

Economic pundits are puzzled. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

Update on the Quislings in charge. www.wsj.com/opinion/hong...

"Handling" post-Maduro Venezuela without applying too much U.S. grip is tricky foreign policy. This is an interesting "told you so" from unhappy experience. www.wsj.com/opinion/vene...

One gainer from Chavismo in Venezuela. www.reuters.com/world/africa...?

Recall when Law of the Sea was a treaty fight. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/c...

A Chinese play for Joey Chestnut. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Good discussion of the farm-pollution problem, including in the comments stream. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

Supply-siders always said that tax incentives matter. sfstandard.com/2026/01/17/l...

This revolution isn't just about weight loss--it's about an end-run around high Rx costs. research.contrary.com/report/how-g...

50 years on--then and now in the "unHamptons" of Long Island's South Fork. #NewYork timwferguson.com/2026/01/16/e...

Now it transpires... www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Even when Hong Kong was free, it had a sketchy stock market. This guy tried to keep it honest. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...

Survey science. Next up: Iran. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One positive omen in Asia as new presidents renew rapprochement. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

The madcap autocrat shouldn't mess with the "bond market," as Bill Clinton could have told him. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Battery sites for "carbon-free" NY still on low power. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

Research science--by imperfect scientists--that changes the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/h...

Foremost among revolutions against post-war colonialism that came to grief. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

Metro districts across America will be feeling this. What funding/staffing decisions should follow? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/09/m...

Manhattan's main new bedroom community. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/n...

Visit Vietnam is easier sell. www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

Supposedly triumphant PRC economy is caught in a deflationary trap of its own making. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Careful with wealth taxes that don't index for inflation. www.newsday.com/real-estate/...

Progress in solving one of modern life's medical mysteries. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

The Economist's "Country of the Year" still has a ways to go. apnews.com/article/syri...

One big dif w/ 1924: U.S. fertility rate is barely half what it was then. What will be the socioeconomic, environmental and other effects of shrinking populations across America? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

a brief update on the heated-up, but historic, battle between a Hamptons town and descendants of its original inhabitants. timwferguson.com/2025/12/27/s...

This annual survey of "foreign policy experts" (which also includes me) is evidence of why African wars weigh little on the American mind. They consistently register as having "low impact" on U.S. interests. www.cfr.org/report/confl...

Another big deficit. reason.org/commentary/s...

The democratic West is still winning some technology races. www.thewirechina.com/2025/12/17/c...

Things happen. www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a...

Would our lives be worse if this industry ceases to hire? www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-i...

The pendulum reverses...with significant exceptions in Brazil and Mexico. www.foreignaffairs.com/south-americ...

'the costliest 5 percent of the population accounts for about half of all health care spending, while the most expensive 1 percent drives over 21 percent of costs.' Some ideas here for containing these, to which I'd add proactivity: charting healthier lifestyles. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Mullahs are desperate, with the rial currency at all-time lows, but Russia and China can bail them out again. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...

What a thrilling operation...soon to be a Netflix video! www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/a...

The best players sit out superfluous bowl games to avoid injury. Sometimes a whole team opts out. Then the warlords of College Football Inc. penalize them. www.espn.com/college-foot...

Not every scenic 'wine country' in U.S. has to contend with steady crowding. www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/12/04/f...

So would Hollywood be aligned with Trump in seeking to block the deal? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...

This was a keen insight into a big part of the Mamdani wave--the outsourcing of social services. thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute/p/mamdanis-n...

The other huge tariff expense--no wonder U.S. smaller businesses are hurting. thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...

Another little gambit of Homeland Security. reason.com/2025/12/03/d...

Wagering is one of America's great growth industries. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/f...