Per Kurowski

@CBSSunday @arthurbrooks x.com/perkurowski/st…

Resolving boredom through our incessant attention to our devices has, according to New York Times bestselling author @arthurbrooks, also brought an end to our willingness to let our minds wander – inhibiting abstract thinking and making us vulnerable to anxiety and depression. He talks about his new book, "The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness," and why constant distraction gets in the way of our ability to be fully alive.

@adam_tooze @cetier1 x.com/perkurowski/st…

The $200bn capital boost to US banks. More on this in the Chartbook Top Links of today.

@MackyArenas x.com/perkurowski/st…

Aquí lo único no "perpendicular", sino directo es la desinversión y el manejo irresponsable del sector eléctrico que nos tiene entre bajones y apagones...correodelcaroni.com/pais-politico/…

@lagranaldea x.com/perkurowski/st…

La estabilización no es que “todo funcione bien”. Es que deje de operar la maquinaria de represión que sostiene al régimen Diego Bautista Urbaneja | #OpiniónLGA laldea.site/2026/03/21/el-…

@realtimsharp x.com/PerKurowski/st…

Has Donald Trump cleaned up the deep state?

@TPostMillennial x.com/PerKurowski/st…

Trump tasks Treasury Dept to handle collection of student loans as delinquency rates increase ow.ly/myTQ50YxciR

@DrSergioK x.com/PerKurowski/st…

El sistema eléctrico nacional en Venezuela es un verdadero caos. No hay planes. No hay mantenimiento y no hay declaraciones. Solo hablan de los barriles de petróleo que ha sacado la Exxon Mobil este mes.

@agrotributos x.com/PerKurowski/st…

Carga tributaria actual del empresario rural que realiza exclusivamente actividades agropecuarias a nivel primario en 2026: 1.- islr 34% renta 2.- isae -0- no sujeto 3.- ivss 11-13% nominas 4.- faov 2% nominas 5.- inces 2% nominas 6.- ipp 9% nominas 7.- (x) locti 0,5% ingresos..

@LibertarianMama x.com/perkurowski/st…

The world may never know what caused the massive explosion in the cost of college. It definitely couldn’t be that most in-state tuition always magically matches the max student loans plus max Pell Grant award to ensure that a steady stream of students are borrowing the max amount to attend. Couldn’t be that.

@unusual_whales x.com/perkurowski/st…

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is the very very low level of job creation. If you adjust what has been the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is the overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

@DAcemogluMIT x.com/perkurowski/st…

Digital technologies and AI, at least in the way that they have developed, have created a tendency for power and information to be concentrated in the hands of a handful of companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

This is a wonkish thread about information, prices and decentralization. It touches on topics often discussed in economics, but with a revisionist take that might have relevance beyond economics, in particular about AI and control of information.

@NickTimiraos x.com/perkurowski/st…

Powell, accepting an award named for Volcker: “Ultimately, each of us will want to look back at the arc of our lives and know that we did what was the right thing.” federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…

@Claudia_Sahm x.com/perkurowski/st…

"We need independence to do what is right, and we need integrity to use that independence wisely."

@FraserNelson @NaomiLWood x.com/perkurowski/st…

A 16% drop in entry-level hiring for AI-exposed jobs. That's already happening in the US. What does Britain do about it? Sunak's answer: cut National Insurance. Cut the cost of employing people now, before it's too late. Another fascinating column:- thetimes.com/business/econo…

@Sean_Speer x.com/perkurowski/st…

Get ready for AI to dominate our politics For now, artificial intelligence still occupies a somewhat curious place in our politics. It’s increasingly understood to be transformative and yet its political salience remains relatively muted. It hasn’t yet crossed the threshold from elite conversations into the wider public. My working hypothesis, however, is that this won’t last. By the end of the year, AI will move from a technocratic concern to a dominant political issue. This week’s release of the Trump administration’s new AI policy framework should accelerate that shift. It is, in many respects, a serious and well-conceived document. It reflects a clear understanding of both AI’s commercial dynamics and its growing military and geopolitical significance. More importantly, it sets out a coherent theory of how governments ought to approach a general-purpose technology. At the commercial level, the framework is notably permissive. It rejects precautionary regulation and instead emphasizes experimentation, scale, and diffusion. The underlying logic is that AI, like earlier foundational technologies, should be broadly deployed and only constrained where there’s a clear case for intervention. In this sense, it’s closer to a classical liberal model of“permissionless innovation” than to the more interventionist instincts taking hold in Europe. Yet it would be a mistake to describe the framework as simply laissez-faire. Where national security is concerned, it’s much more nuanced. The document treats AI as a core strategic asset in the United States’ long-term competition with China. It calls for accelerated investment in compute, energy, and data infrastructure, and it situates commercial AI development squarely within the country’s defence and intelligence capabilities. This must be understood as a form of economic statecraft: light-touch on civilian deployment, but ultimately developmental when it comes to national power. That hybrid model stands in contrast not only to Europe’s more precautionary approach, but also to Canada’s emerging emphasis on“digital sovereignty.” The former risks constraining innovation through ex ante regulation. The latter risks confusing autonomy with self-sufficiency in a domain where scale and integration are decisive advantages. The American framework, by comparison, is arguably more pragmatic. It recognizes that AI is both an engine of economic growth and an instrument of geopolitical competition, and it aligns policy accordingly. Its biggest weakness, however, is what it leaves underdeveloped. Despite growing evidence that AI may drive significant labour displacement—particularly in white-collar occupations—the framework largely treats workforce adjustment as a secondary concern. Vice President JD Vance’s pro-worker rhetoric in a major AI speech at a Paris conference last year was politically astute. But if governments are serious about accelerating AI adoption, they must also be serious about proactively preparing for the transition for workers and communities. This, it must be emphasized, doesn’t mean adopting Europe’s precautionary model. But it does mean that AI accelerationists must be prudent. Political license will be essential to sustaining an innovation-first strategy. The release of a sophisticated American framework also puts an onus on the Carney government to finalize its own AI strategy. It may not yet be facing public pressure or widespread scrutiny. But that window is no doubt closing. Mark my words: we’ll soon forget there was a time when AI wasn’t one of the most pressing political issues of our era.

@enlaucab x.com/perkurowski/st…

Venezuela perdió aproximadamente 1,3 millones de emprendedores en 12 meses, al pasar de 2,7 millones de personas con algún emprendimiento en 2024 a cerca de 1,4 millones en 2025. Sumando las cifras de 2023, un total de 2 millones de emprendedores salieron del mercado en el último bienio. 🗨"El GEM Venezuela muestra una contracción de 15 puntos porcentuales con respecto a 2023. Esto revela una transformación regresiva de magnitudes históricas del emprendimiento. Tras un breve período de estabilización entre 2021 y 2024, el país ha ingresado en un período de contracción estructural en el emprendimiento". Lee más detalles📲goo.su/VwFv8

@LeonardoVera60 x.com/perkurowski/st…

Si algo parece estar mostrando con claridad el estudio UCAB-IESA sobre el emprendimiento en Venezuela es que el auto-empleo ya ha entrado en una fase de saturación y agotamiento. Hay que ayudar al desarrollo de empresas formales, reducir toda traba y obstáculo, y vaya si los hay.

Regardless of the economic recovery that—God willing—Venezuela achieves in the coming years, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan families will continue to rely heavily on family remittances sent by their emigrants. What support can be provided to them? 🤔 theamericanunion.blogspot.com

If #AI is blamed for growing unemployment, could it invent/market unnecessary jobs? “Developers may steer AI toward outputs appearing job-creating. Real risk: protecting employment statistics.” ChatGPT “Yes, possible. Safeguard? Brutal truth-seeking.” Grok perkurowski.blogspot.com/2026/03/ai-cha…

@DiMartinoBooth x.com/perkurowski/st…

Whoever ever said the biggest nonbanks have ALWAYS operated under the auspices of being Too Big to Fail? Heck, they know that the bigger they get, the more backstopped they are by the US taxpayer.