Archive - Faster, Please!

👁 The Fed (maybe) sees a glimpse of the Age of AI

And give technological progress a thankful shout-out on before the big meal of Thursday

Nov 27 •

James Pethokoukis

✨ My chat (+transcript) with tech policy expert Neil Chilson on regulating GenAI

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #64

Nov 26 •

James Pethokoukis

27:46

⏩ Trump’s 3% growth challenge

The president-elect's pick for treasury secretary, investor Scott Bessent, wants to accelerate, but it won’t be easy

Nov 25 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #26

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Nov 23 •

James Pethokoukis

🛰 The story of the US Space Force: A Quick Q&A with … defense policy analyst Todd Harrison

A Friday Flashback conversation from one of my most popular interviews of 2024

Nov 22 •

James Pethokoukis

✨ 📈 The AI Paradox: When will artificial intelligence boost US economic growth?

Maybe we should take a lesson from Alan Greenspan and the 1990s boom

Nov 21 •

James Pethokoukis

🧠 Supporting America's smartest kids: A Quick Q&A with … political scientist Charles Murray

'They are a precious national resource. We can’t afford to waste them.'

Nov 19 •

James Pethokoukis

🎭✨ Ben Affleck’s wise words on AI

The actor and filmmaker is right to stress how new technology can lower costs and create more demand in Hollywood — and across the US economy

Nov 18 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #25

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Nov 16 •

James Pethokoukis

📉 Well, they ran the numbers on degrowth — and it's not good

Do people in rich countries want to live like they do in India?

Nov 15 •

James Pethokoukis

🏘️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Bryan Caplan on density and housing deregulation

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #63

Nov 15 •

James Pethokoukis

28:21

🏫 A DARPA for education

Mend don't end the US Department of Education by taking a page from venture capital

Nov 13 •

James Pethokoukis

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