economics

Nth Order Effects

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What do tariffs and the meteoric rise of Oliver Anthony have in common? One is a sledgehammer that the Trump administration is hell-bent in swinging to reorder global trade; the other is a country music star with a message dripping in populism. My aim is to show that both of these phenomena, while very different … Read more

Platforms

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Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have a combined market cap of around $9T at the time of writing (March 2025). What do all of these tech behemoths have in common? They are all platforms. A platform is a generic term for a specific business model that has been made possible with the Internet. Lately I’ve … Read more