Think Tank Quickies (#514)

• The Bonn-based IZA Institute of Labour Economics is set to close at the end of December after its main financial backer, Deutsche Post Foundation, a non-profit institution set up by logistics operator DHL Group, announced that it will "discontinue" the IZA's "operations."
• Daniel Davis, a commentator with a record of controversial comments about Israel and a senior fellow at the Koch-backed think tank Defense Priorities, will be the deputy director of national intelligence under Tulsi Gabbard.
  
• Karim Haggag, a professor at the school of global affairs and pubic policy at the American University in Cairo, has been appointed the new director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
• Former Republican Rep. Garrett Graves (LA) and former independent Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) have joined the Bipartisan Policy Center's Energy Advisory Council.
  
• AFL-CIO, together with affiliated unions and the think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI), file emergency lawsuit against DOGE to protect privacy of worker data.
• Onion (satire): Think tank called 'The Himmler Institute' assures nation this is legal. 
• The Economic Security Project is adding Mike Konczal and Adriane Brown, both from the Biden White House.
• As a child, Microsoft founder Bill Gates visited a local think tank owned by Batelle.
  
• Korean policy think tank launches national budget simulation game. 
• Why think tank experts matter less and less for Trump.