Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year to all our readers. This will be the last newsletter of 2022. See you in the future!
But first, looking to the recent past, members of the CGO team were in Los Angeles recently at The Atlantic's Progress Summit. Speaking of progress...
Will kicked off a new Mercatus Center Discourse Magazine series on abundance with the aptly titled "We Need an Abundance Agenda." His article is a great place to start if you're getting caught up on these ideas. If you're looking for even more abundance talk, then give Eli a listen in his recent podcasts with Derek Thompson and Stranded Technologies.
In a timely piece, Will outlined five issues with the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (or JCPA).
Joy Buchanan and Henry Kronk published research with the CGO answering the puzzling question: If wages are so high for tech jobs in the US, then why the heck are there so many unfilled tech roles? They outline the data and offer a nuanced take on the issue. Joy followed up with an op-ed if you're looking for a quicker read.
What we’re reading
Aubrey’s Article of the Week: We’re on the lookout for deep fake use cases in the wild, and this one is a deep fake Mark Zuckerberg urging Congress to pass the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act. Turns out, that being a good idea is fake too!
Aubrey also got her op-ed on reacting to teenage social media use published in the Tribune News Service.