10/29/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. Xi Jinping steps up his attempt to rescue China’s economy (Economist)

2. Why Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been delayed (Economist)

3. How Mark Zuckerberg escaped a metaverse-sized hole (Economist)

4. Why China and India are watching the Dalai Lama closely (Economist)

5. America's Record Wealth Boom (Apricitas Economics)

6. The now-underrated Gary Becker (In Mercato Veritas)

7. Infrastructure Costs: Electrification (Notes on Growth)

8. Are We Having a Moral Panic Over Misinformation? (Undark)

9. Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere (Verge)

10. Japan Radically Increased Immigration—and No One Protested (Foreign Policy)