Bob Neer
@bobneer.com
🌐 Professor of Global Business & Law, Hult International Business School Boston. Columbia J.D.-U.S. History Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar National University of Singapore. Harvard AB. Start-ups @ London 🇬🇧 LA 🇺🇸 Singapore 🇸🇬 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Boston 🇺🇸
🌐 A fearful faction in the US tries to pull back from the world. NYT: "New International Student Enrollments Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds (Gift Article)
The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, including those who enrolled in prior years or who are working after graduation, fell only slightly.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🌐 A fearful faction in the US tries to pull back from the world. NYT: "New International Student Enrollments Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
🔮 Still lots of room for Internet payments systems in much of the world. www.voronoiapp.com/economy/Who-...
Who Still Uses Cash?
Geographic and Economic Patterns: The poorest countries rely more on cash: Myanmar (98%), Ethiopia (95%), and Gambia (95%) top the list, refl…
www.voronoiapp.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🔮 Still lots of room for Internet payments systems in much of the world. www.voronoiapp.com/economy/Who-...
🎨 A measure of genius. www.voronoiapp.com/other/The-Mo...
The Most Prompted Artists For AI Videos and Images
People are using AI to create hundreds of thousands of images and videos based on existing characters, places and ideas. But which names and styles are replic…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🎨 A measure of genius. www.voronoiapp.com/other/The-Mo...
🗺️ Fascinating. www.voronoiapp.com/travel/Corre...
Correlation Between Wealth and Passport Strength
This chart illustrates how a nation’s economic standing often aligns with the strength of its passport, revealing clear patterns in global mobility. Wealthier…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🗺️ Fascinating. www.voronoiapp.com/travel/Corre...
🇺🇸 The US takes a tumble. www.voronoiapp.com/geopolitics/...
Countries With the Best Reputations, According to G7 Citizens
Key takeaways According to a study by Reputation Lab , Canada and Switzerland have the best international standing in 2025 Similar to last year’s l…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🇺🇸 The US takes a tumble. www.voronoiapp.com/geopolitics/...
💸 Inflation isn't uniform. www.voronoiapp.com/economy/US-I...
US Inflation by Category in 2025
Key takeaways Inflation remains uneven across categories, with food items like beef and essentials such as car maintenance showing the strongest…
www.voronoiapp.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
💸 Inflation isn't uniform. www.voronoiapp.com/economy/US-I...
🇺🇸 This helps to explain differing political attitudes toward the recent shutdown. www.voronoiapp.com/maps/Mapped-...
Mapped: The States Most Dependent on Food Stamps
Key Takeaways New Mexico has the highest SNAP reliance in the U.S., with over 21% of residents enrolled. Wyoming and Utah report the lowest participation,…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🇺🇸 This helps to explain differing political attitudes toward the recent shutdown. www.voronoiapp.com/maps/Mapped-...
🔒 The old story of monopoly power in a new setting. Why every website you used to love is getting worse www.vox.com/technology/4...
Why every website you used to love is getting worse
The decay of Google, Amazon, and Facebook are part of a larger trend.
www.vox.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🔒 The old story of monopoly power in a new setting. Why every website you used to love is getting worse www.vox.com/technology/4...
🇨🇳🇺🇸 Krugman summarizes the damage to date: inflation, jobs, and our alliances. Manufacturing jobs continue to decline. The impact should be increasingly evident over the next few years. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-we-los...
How We Lost the Trade War
Tariff uncertainty may be waning, but the damage will persist
paulkrugman.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🇨🇳🇺🇸 Krugman summarizes the damage to date: inflation, jobs, and our alliances. Manufacturing jobs continue to decline. The impact should be increasingly evident over the next few years. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-we-los...
🌐 Corporations continue their global rise: challenging nations. "Microsoft recently issued some long-term bonds that paid lower interest rates than Treasury debt." adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-link-9...
Top Link 906 Treasuries losing their shine. Nigerian births. Tanzanian terror & “the traveler of Islam”
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
adamtooze.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🌐 Corporations continue their global rise: challenging nations. "Microsoft recently issued some long-term bonds that paid lower interest rates than Treasury debt." adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-link-9...
🔋 For my #Future Societies students. Doesn't seem likely any time soon. Inside the colossal quest for limitless energy from nuclear fusion www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Inside the colossal quest for limitless energy from nuclear fusion
The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think.
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🔋 For my #Future Societies students. Doesn't seem likely any time soon. Inside the colossal quest for limitless energy from nuclear fusion www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
🪖 "Throughout history, technological advantages have altered the course of wars, sometimes suddenly." Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War?
With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance.
www.newyorker.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🪖 "Throughout history, technological advantages have altered the course of wars, sometimes suddenly." Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
🇺🇸 It will be harder without efforts to build inclusivity. [February 2025] www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis
The ranks of the American armed forces are depleted. Is the problem the military or the country?
www.newyorker.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🇺🇸 It will be harder without efforts to build inclusivity. [February 2025] www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
🎓 "TED’s changes come amid darker times, at a point when the era of do-gooder globalism ebbs into polarised populism." TED gets new bosses and changes direction www.economist.com/business/202...
TED gets new bosses and changes direction
The event organiser heads into ed tech
www.economist.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🎓 "TED’s changes come amid darker times, at a point when the era of do-gooder globalism ebbs into polarised populism." TED gets new bosses and changes direction www.economist.com/business/202...
🔮 The future in China will be regulated. www.economist.com/china/2023/0...
Xiongan is Xi Jinping’s pet project
But it is taking a long time to build
www.economist.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🔮 The future in China will be regulated. www.economist.com/china/2023/0...
🪖 Competition needed. #EmpireOfLiberty @Columbia University
America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy
To win future wars it needs new weapons, new suppliers and a new system of procurement
www.economist.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🪖 Competition needed. #EmpireOfLiberty @Columbia University
📚 Connecting the European revolutions of 1848 to the cause of US abolitionists. [April 2024]
How German Atheists Made America Great Again (Published 2024)
Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
📚 Connecting the European revolutions of 1848 to the cause of US abolitionists. [April 2024]
🇵🇱 Once burned, twice shy. [January 2025]
How Poland emerged as a leading defence power
Will others follow?
www.economist.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
🇵🇱 Once burned, twice shy. [January 2025]
💵 A slow fall, not a crash, so far. "[T]he result would probably be a world of competing currency blocs, inadequate alternatives to Treasuries, barriers to trade and reduced efficiency." @Hult #GED0212 #GLO0207 #GLO0400 #HUM0204 #ECN0302
How Trump might topple the dollar
For the first time in many decades, the greenback looks vulnerable
www.economist.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
☢️ Where the US spends a lot its money. www.economist.com/interactive/...
Inside the top-secret labs that build America’s nuclear weapons
To maintain the bombs, and build new ones, scientists are pushing the frontiers of physics
www.economist.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
☢️ Where the US spends a lot its money. www.economist.com/interactive/...
🌋 One group's loss is another's gain. Hult International Business School #GED0212 #GLO0207 #GLO0400 #HUM0204 #ECN0302 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...
Are We Headed for Apocalypse? This Book Says It’s a 1-in-3 Chance. (Gift Article)
In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🌞 Check out their map of birthright citizenship. [May 2025] #DailyThought www.economist.com/united-state...
Why does America have birthright citizenship?
It aids assimilation and is more widespread than the administration admits
www.economist.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🌞 Check out their map of birthright citizenship. [May 2025] #DailyThought www.economist.com/united-state...
🤷♂️ About all that can be said of McNamara: "[T]o admit error was worthy of admiration." #EmpireOfLiberty Columbia University www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🤷♂️ About all that can be said of McNamara: "[T]o admit error was worthy of admiration." #EmpireOfLiberty Columbia University www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
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Minneapolis built more housing than any other major Midwest city & it’s not a mystery why.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
October 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Minneapolis built more housing than any other major Midwest city & it’s not a mystery why.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.
They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.
The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.