National GDP is basically a myth; the real economy is just a giant web of cities that grow together regardless of borders.
Paradigm Challenge arxiv | Mar 18
The gender pay gap basically vanishes the second you tell women exactly what the men in the office are making.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Fixing the economy won't kill off populism once people have already fallen into a "low-trust trap."
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
We should probably let kids buy beer before hard liquor and practice driving with a pro before giving them a full license.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Companies with diverse bosses have way fewer accidents, but they’re actually a bit less productive.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Weirdly enough, sponsoring a winning football team hurts a company’s stock price more than sponsoring a team that just ties.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Mar 18
The entire global banking system is currently dependent on us keeping our fossil fuel habit.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Generative AI is finally helping us build those crazy, original ideas that used to be impossible to actually make.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Obsessive recycling and "circular" goals are actually making it 17% more expensive to hit our climate targets.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
When the U.S. blocks tech trade with China, our own economy actually takes a bigger punch than theirs does.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Those "toxic" oil cleanup chemicals actually help coastal forests survive way better than if we just left the oil alone.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Despite all the panic, oil price spikes haven't actually slowed down U.S. growth once in the last 120 years.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
When the economy gets shaky and companies slow down, stock analysts actually start lying to themselves and making even wilder predictions.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
People will happily take way less interest on their money if you can just prove it isn't fake.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Nonverbal charisma is basically a myth—we just think speakers are successful because they're good-looking.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
The AI revolution isn't killing the planet; it's actually forcing us to dump way more money into renewable energy.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Traditional "competitors" in the same industry are usually just helping each other grow, rather than stealing each other’s business.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Foreign allies actually love it when a leader talks tough and makes threats, even if it scares the voters at home.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
The #1 rule in corporate finance—that you should ignore "earnings per share"—is actually flat-out wrong.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
The rules meant to keep trading safe are actually just giving traders new ways to legally rig the game.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
India’s bankruptcy courts aren't just random luck; you can predict what happens 72% of the time based on the data.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Using carbon capture to help pump more oil actually makes a country's total pollution go up in the long run.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Making companies report their "green" and social stats actually stops bosses from handing shady deals to their relatives.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
U.S. gun laws basically ignore what people want, even when 90% of voters agree on things like background checks.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
The United States has built a massive "secret" stash of wealth by using federal agencies to play the global markets.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
People are most likely to trust "what everyone else says" on the exact topics where the crowd is most likely to be wrong.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
The global price of your morning coffee has basically nothing to do with how many beans are actually being grown anymore.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Just reminding a kid they're "left behind" is enough to kill their dreams and career goals on the spot.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Strict zoning is what's killing cities like Detroit, even though there's no actual shortage of housing.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
In developing countries, when a woman gets a job, she feels great—but it doesn't make her husband any happier.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
People without solar panels are missing out on way more cash than they think—like, 150% more.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
We can literally "ship" the leftover heat from giant AI computers across the globe to heat our homes for free.
Cosmic Scale ssrn | Mar 18
Competing with cheap Chinese imports is actually forcing American companies to be more ethical and run a tighter ship.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
When stock analysts lose an hour of sleep to Daylight Saving, they stop thinking for themselves and just follow the crowd.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Slapping "green taxes" on polluters actually made it cheaper for them to borrow money by forcing them to get efficient.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Busing migrants to sanctuary cities worked better than any lawsuit because it basically blew up the political groups that supported those rules.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
If you look at the actual grammar of the 14th Amendment, "birthright citizenship" might not be required by the Constitution after all.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Official European data is hiding a massive "heat crisis" in places like Finland, where 15% of families can't afford to stay warm.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Investors can make way more money by ignoring what an AI says and trading based on how "confident" the AI's internal math looks.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Unlike regular government programs that get messy as they grow, AI-run projects actually work way better the bigger they get.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
When immigrants move in, local students switch their majors and end up making way more money than they ever would have without them.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
In cultures where periods are a huge social taboo, it’s actually the men who end up doing most of the shopping for menstrual products.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
If a company sponsors a football team, their stock price jumps on game day regardless of whether the team wins or loses.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Watching financial news on TV actually helps regular people trade like pros instead of just following the latest hype.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
India has likely been faking its economic growth numbers for 20 years, hiding a massive slowdown behind bad data.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
We think flu shots work great globally, but that's an illusion—almost all the data comes from wealthy countries.
Cosmic Scale ssrn | Mar 18
Giving financial support to widows can actually make their health worse in the short term.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
AI is already shrinking the slice of the pie workers get, even in industries where pay is actually going up.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Giant tech companies actually win when their users start using their competitors’ services too.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Empowering women can actually lead to a temporary spike in fights and violence at home.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
In China, market predictions of economic disaster have zero power to actually predict what’s going to happen.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Physical robots are way better for productivity than AI, but AI is way worse for how much of the paycheck actually goes to the worker.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
If an AI shopping bot asks you a few smart questions, it's way better than showing you a million products you don't want.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
The U.S. government is basically running a "command economy" in tech now, taking stakes in companies and demanding a cut of the profits.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Gas taxes stop working once a country gets rich enough—eventually, people just keep polluting no matter the cost.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Just teaming up with a college makes a company's stock easier to sell because investors love that "academic halo."
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Mar 18
If you had a teacher who handed out "easy As," you're probably making significantly less money right now.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Growing up in a neighborhood with lots of immigrants actually makes people more likely to be anti-immigrant when they grow up.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Those brutal "stress tests" for big banks actually helped local businesses and families grow way faster.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
If you offer cash for the "best" content, people will just start aggressively sabotaging everyone else with downvotes.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Big oil companies are dumping their old wells onto tiny firms just to dodge billions in cleanup costs.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Large companies aren't actually more innovative; they just wait until a small inventor has a winner and buy it right before the patent hits.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Most baby doctors now think we should deliver some babies early just so we can start life-saving gene therapy immediately.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
In most places, people aren't buying brand new electric cars—the "green revolution" is actually just a wave of used EVs from other cities.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
The pay gap between AI scientists in tech vs. colleges has exploded—industry stars now make $1.5 million more every single year.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Getting a government tax subsidy can actually make it more expensive for a company to get a loan from a regular bank.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
There is way less plastic being dumped into the ocean by rivers than we thought—like, 98% less.
Nature Is Weird ssrn | Mar 18
If a robot takes your job, your pay eventually bounces back; if AI takes it, you’re looking at a permanent financial slump.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Giving poor kids priority at elite public schools fixes segregation without causing the "rich flight" that school boards panic about.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Companies obsessing over the "long term" can be just as toxic to their value as the ones only looking at next week.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Working from home might be the most effective way to get people to actually have kids in the modern world.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Who your governor is actually accounts for about 5% of how well your state's entire economy is doing.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Giving cash to families with disabled kids often fails because the real bottleneck is the parents stopping working together.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Companies decide exactly how they're going to cheat on their taxes based on how complicated their products are.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Just having a super complicated tax system can wipe out a third of a country’s potential industrial output.
Cosmic Scale ssrn | Mar 18
Pay transparency laws are backfiring—they’re mostly just giving raises to men and college grads, not the people they were meant to help.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
YouTube has basically become a functional part of how we regulate banks now.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
If you cut "secondary" healthcare programs, even the life-saving treatments you kept will eventually stop working.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Scaring students can actually make them do better on tests, especially for guys and non-native speakers.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Nurses can miss 16 out of 17 routine ICU checks and it doesn't matter—the only one that actually predicts if you'll live is whether you're "oriented."
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
Using AI to monitor companies makes their stock price go up, but it kills their ability to actually innovate in the long run.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Female CEOs are 40% more likely to get buyout offers—not because they're seen as weak, but because they're better at merging complex companies.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Hiring more doctors in China actually made it harder for patients to get medical care.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
When a parent pulls their kid out of a school lesson, they’re basically acting as a government regulator for everyone else's children.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Regular people are opening thousands of PO boxes across state lines specifically to dodge online sales taxes.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
One party's extremism is a trap you can only get out of if the other side decides to chill out first.
Cosmic Scale ssrn | Mar 18
AI makes pay more equal for people in the same job, but it's causing the overall gender pay gap to widen in the industries that use it.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18
Nearly 70% of the specific stuff the government wants to do in a new law gets "lost" or deleted before the rules take effect.
Practical Magic ssrn | Mar 18
We've spent ten years researching "flying taxis" without once stopping to ask if anyone could actually afford to fly in one.
Paradigm Challenge ssrn | Mar 18