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<title><![CDATA[Noah Smith - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29211.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Noah Smith]]></description><category domain="29211">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Stop Spending Money on Smaller Classes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/stop-spending-money-on-smaller-classes</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've spent decades raising teacher quantity when we should have been raising quality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economists Should Be Worried About Birth Rates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/economists-should-be-worried-about</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't be so quick to dismiss the threat of an aging, declining population.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will China, Inc. Be Zombified?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-china-inc-be-zombified</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A question surprisingly few people are asking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs Liberal Nationalism Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-liberal-nationalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most successful ideology of the 20th century is still right for the 21st.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Decoupling From China Proceeds Slowly, But It Is Proceeding]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/trump-actually-started-to-decouple</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The "economic divorce" between the two countries is proceeding slowly, but it is proceeding.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Are What You Consume]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/you-are-what-you-consume</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Personal identity should come from the things we get to choose for ourselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Probably a Solution to Fertility Decline. Let's Find It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/lets-save-the-human-species</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's probably a solution out there to fertility decline. Let's find it!]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good Cities Can't Exist Without Public Order]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/good-cities-cant-exist-without-public-25e</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A timely repost, with some updates related to recent events.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Has Only One Real City]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-has-only-one-real-city</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans who go to Tokyo or Paris or Seoul or London are often wowed by the efficient train systems, dense housing, and walkable city streets lined with shops and restaurants. And yet in these countries, many secondary cities also have these attractive features. Go to Nagoya or Fukuoka,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Chinese Drones Could Defeat America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-chinese-drones-could-defeat-america</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a story about World War 2. In 1940, before the entry of the U.S. and the USSR into the war, Britain was fighting alone against Germany and Italy. Despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned, the British managed to pull off a spectacular naval victory, using...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Owe the Libertarians an Apology]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-owe-the-libertarians-an-apology</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It turns out there are worse monsters than the market.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blue States Don't Build. Red States Do]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/blue-states-dont-build-red-states</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A timely repost, with some updates.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only Fools Think Musk Is Incompetent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/only-fools-think-elon-is-incompetent</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Underestimate a man like this at your peril.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, Reshoring American Industry Is Possible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/yes-reshoring-american-industry-is</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans can make stuff, after all.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, You Are Not on Indigenous Land]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are-not-on-indigenous-land</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America's Future Could Hinge on Elon Musk]]></title>
							<link>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-americas-future-could-hinge-on</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iron Man, or Dr. Doom?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Preventing Panic in the Banking Sector]]></title>
							<link>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/preventing-panic-in-the-banking-sector?te=1&amp;nl=the-morning&amp;emc=edit_nn_20230313</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, I guess I know what I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m going to be writing about for at least the next few days! In my post on Friday, I tried to explain the basics of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' why Silicon Valley Bank had a run. Today I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m going to talk about how to prevent a wider panic in the banking sector. (Note: This post...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, We're Probably in a Recession, and That's Fine]]></title>
							<link>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-were-probably-in-a-recession</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Economic Analysis has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' released its advanced estimates'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for growth in the second quarter of 2022, and the numbers show that the U.S. economy shrank for the second quarter in a row. In'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Has Turned $15 an Hour Wages Into a Setback]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/inflation-has-turned-15-an-hour-wages-into-a-setback</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many Americans have been delighted to see wages rising since the end of the pandemic. But whether they realize it yet, inflation has already eaten up all of those gains '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' which highlights the fact that the U.S. economy has no system for making sure that wages keep up with inflation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Big Economic Idea Could Make History]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/u-s-stimulus-checks-and-cash-benefits-may-be-biden-s-economic-legacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidency will be as transformative as many are hoping remains to be seen. But if it does turn out to be one of those pivot-of-history kind of presidencies, like that of Ronald Reagan or Franklin D. Roosevelt, what will be the big economic policy idea that comes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Lying as Tribal Signaling]]></title>
							<link>https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/political-lying-as-tribal-signaling</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why have so many'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Republicans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and right-wing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' media figures'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' embraced Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s obviously made-up claims of voter fraud? Rationally, they must know that all of the allegations are lies. Court after court, recount after recount, investigation after investigation has shown...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abe Defied Expectations to Build a Better Japan]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/abe-defied-expectations-build-better-220007150.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe, Japan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s longest-serving Prime Minister, is resigning due to ulcerative colitis. He leaves behind a Japan that is both economically stronger and more socially liberal than the one he inherited.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  When Shinzo Abe took over Japan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leadership in late 2012, I was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. May Need to Close Down Businesses Again]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-verge-lockdown-2-0-143003881.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- After two months of what looked like a nascent recovery, the U.S. economy is faltering again. Restaurant reservations, one of the most commonly tracked indicators of local business activity, are stagnating:Americans are also a bit less mobile in July than in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Economic Plan Gets a Lot of Big Things Right]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-economic-plan-gets-lot-103014698.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has just released a major industrial policy plan for reviving U.S. manufacturing. The proposal is the first in a four-part series called Build Back Better, which will also address economic recovery,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Best Virus Response? QE Plus Infrastructure Spending]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/best-coronavirus-response-qe-plus-145558626.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The economic threat from the coronavirus pandemic is profound. Stocks have plunged, oil prices have tumbled, the entire yield curve has fallen below 1% for the first time in history, and the country may already be in recession.Boosting the economy will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Sanctuary Law Should Survive Trump Attack]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-12/california-s-pro-immigrant-sb-54-law-should-survive-trump-attack</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the 1990s, the state tried to block immigrants' rights. Today it is trying to protect them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Still Dreams of a 1950s-Era Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-30/trump-still-dreams-of-a-1950s-era-economy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His tax cuts and pure willpower can't bring back manufacturing jobs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Middle-Class America Got Fleeced]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-07/how-middle-class-america-got-fleeced</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boomers and Gen Xers thought they had it made. But free markets, deregulation and financial errors cost them dearly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Capitalism Will Shrink Inequality. In Fact, It's Happening.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-23/capitalism-will-shrink-inequality-in-fact-it-s-happening</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rising prosperity widened income gaps in Latin America and China but the trend is reversing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Immigration Works Fine When Newcomers Integrate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-10/immigration-works-fine-when-newcomers-integrate</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Noah Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Welcoming foreigners has always made America stronger. Even George Washington understood that.]]></description>
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