Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Study Concludes That Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs
Tom Fairless, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link; here’s a News+ link too):
The German research echoes recent reports by the Budget Lab at Yale and economists at Harvard Business School, finding that only a small fraction of the tariff costs were being borne by foreign producers.
By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. [...]
Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans, the report said. “There is no such thing as foreigners transferring wealth to the U.S. in the form of tariffs,” said Julian Hinz, an economics professor at Germany’s Bielefeld University who co-authored the study.
This is what economists expected, but it’s always important to measure actual results, no matter how obvious the conclusions seem in advance. But this one feels like we could file it next to “Sun continues to rise in east, set in west.”
WorkOS Pipes
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week. Connecting user accounts to third-party APIs always comes with the same plumbing: OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and provider-specific quirks. WorkOS Pipes removes that overhead. Users connect services like GitHub, Slack, Google, Salesforce, and other supported providers through a drop-in widget. Your back end requests a valid access token from the Pipes API when needed, while Pipes handles credential storage and token refresh. That’s it.
Iyanla Vanzant’s Decision Not To Attend Her Daughter’s Funeral
During "The Breakfast Club" interview, Iyanla Vanzant explains why setting boundaries during grief is an act of self-love.
Rev. William Barber: Why We Must Reclaim MLK’s Radical Vision
According to Rev. Dr. William Barber, to truly honor and reclaim Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, people must return to King's original, radical blueprint: organizing multi-racial, local, and state-level movements to challenge systemic injustices