Tyler Cowen
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Insurance price sentences to ponder
NYU Stern researcher @NateWitkin questions why cyber insurance rates keep falling if AI cyber risk is accelerating: “Insurance rates for cyber risk declined by about 4% globally in Q2 of this year…
*Why Not Bolivia?*
The author is Calvin Korponai, and the subtitle is From Macchu Picchu into Bolivia in search of the Garden of Eden.
Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems
I study how short-form design amplifies self-control problems in digital media.
Is Lichtenstein an actual monarchy?
It seems so: Internal documents reviewed by the FT show that three days earlier, behind the walls of Vaduz Castle, Europe’s wealthiest ruling dynasty had quietly approved an overhaul that strengthens…
Mein Ingeborg Bachmann Studium
Recently I finished read Malina, by Ingeborg Bachmann, an Austrian novel published in 1971.
How are the market valuations for the U.S: insurers doing?
U. S. insurance stocks have been doing quite well since the beginning of May 2026, and they have materially outperformed the overall market.
Shout it from the rooftops (of the data centers)
Data-center investment has become one of the largest capital-expenditure cycles in financial markets, with U. S. hyperscalers expected to deploy roughly $700 billion in 2026.
Share price numbers for the Hugging Face incident
…major publicly traded cybersecurity firms lost roughly $65–80 billion, or about 8–10% of their combined value, in the days following disclosure of the Hugging Face/OpenAI incident; by early September…
Numbers, numbers, numbers
“The global cyber insurance market was worth nearly $15 billion last year and is expected to reach roughly $28 billion by 2030, Munich Re estimated in its latest report.
And it begins…(a good start…)
Wall Street banks are pushing large law firms to cut fees, arguing that the business model that has enriched top lawyers for decades is not sustainable in an era of AI.