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02 May 2025, 03:01
Finance
Thirteen ways from cotton to code of looking at america's economic story, & none a Grand Narrative: priming our historical past to serve as an analogy generating machine…
01 May 2025, 21:49
As of 2025-05-01 Th... Have at it, people… If if, in playing with it, it says anything insightful or weird to you, please email me…
29 Apr 2025, 15:42
Launching a strategy-less trade war has consequences: f*** around & find out what happens when you make trade policy as a side-effect of performance art: China loses $4 billion a week that it has...
28 Apr 2025, 13:32
"Trade talks" where the U.S. cannot even start to talk about trade because their are no goals, no trusted staff, and no internal administration plan. It's chaos-monkey non-"policy" in action: Scott...
27 Apr 2025, 03:58
This seems to me to be taking "volunteer to teach what you want to learn" to an extreme: MAMLM Edition. Behind the paywall because I do not know what I think, and at the end I think all this piece...
26 Apr 2025, 16:05
It is a lie to claim that the United States now has a tariff or an industrial policy. It just has a chaos monkey making chaos, and a bunch of grifters trying to cover up and rationalize that...
26 Apr 2025, 13:31
Start from a deeply deluded place about what the economy is & you are playing a stupid game. & so to the extent that Trump is not stopped and removed from all levers of power immediately, America...
25 Apr 2025, 22:33
Behind the paywall because I am not yet sure to what extent history is rhyming here… The Ghosts of TechBros Past, Present, and Future: From Middle West Utilities to Tesla: how boom-time visions hav...
25 Apr 2025, 13:59
A huge number of journalists continue to talk about a "Trump administration" with things called "policies" that it "plans". They know better. They should act better…
24 Apr 2025, 00:06
Back after a year on hiatus! Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast They, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally an hour...
23 Apr 2025, 21:03
On the Edge Again: The Fed, Trump, and the Risk of a 1980s-Style Spiral: An ongoing cautionary tale of monetary policy, inflationary pressures, and the destabilizing influence of political...
23 Apr 2025, 13:12
Like a declassé WWF performer yelling obscenities while waving a metal folding chair over his head & threatening to come into the ring and beat the s**t out of people with it…
22 Apr 2025, 02:18
The Renaissance city-state of Florence sends a junior diplomat to try to fix the diplomatic consequences of a military disaster. And doesn't fund him. Nobody listens. Machiavelli in the diplomatic...
21 Apr 2025, 10:21
For Donald Trump to want to resurrect the TPP—to recognize he made a huge mistake back in January 2017—would be possible only if Donald Trump actually had ideas and preferences about policies, which h
20 Apr 2025, 18:47
A sudden spike in tariffs has small businesses on the ropes, and the broader economy may be next. Yes, individually big businesses can lobby and bribe Trump and Trumpists for loopholes. But small...
19 Apr 2025, 13:04
Modern Advanced Machine Learning Models—MAMLMs—are they BRAINS!!!! or not? So far it is still very clear to me that they are not. And I see it as highly probable that MAMLMs as we know them are...
18 Apr 2025, 22:10
As I understand the theology, each year Believers do not only remember and commemorate but participate in Jesus of Nazareth's journey; thus on Holy Saturday God is really and truly Dead...
17 Apr 2025, 13:40
Trump desperately wants to be on the phone with Xi Jinping, the dog's has poked its nose into the steel trap, and corrupt media pretending to sanewash everything they can by pretending it is all 11...
16 Apr 2025, 19:45
If your large language model reminds you of a brain, it's because you're projecting—not because it's thinking. It's not reasoning, it's interpolation And anthropomorphizing the algorithm doesn't...
16 Apr 2025, 13:45
Marx wrote unvermeidlich. That matters much more than Peter Gordon dares to admit. It means one has to read Capital as not just an analysis but as a work in the Judæo-Christian prophetic tradition as
16 Apr 2025, 12:56
African-American Lisa Cook, who was just finishing up as a student at Berkeley when I arrived as a professor, and who survived an attack by the right-wing slime machine to get confirmed as a...
15 Apr 2025, 16:41
And we are live! Instincts, sycophancy,spectacle—but no film editor—and the illusion of governance at the court of the chaos-monkey king…
15 Apr 2025, 14:05
From the time I taught the "Smith, Marx, & Keynes" History of Economic Thought course designed by Ravi Bhandari...
13 Apr 2025, 21:04
And, on Fareed Zakaria's show "GPS" on 2024-04-13 Su, Larry Summers wipes the floor with him. Shame on Oren...
13 Apr 2025, 18:41
By pretending in the existence of a plan that does not actually exist, Jennifer Burns, with the active assistance of the "New York Times", has handed the Trumpists an attractive fictional gift...
13 Apr 2025, 14:44
A meditation on the 1848 chapter of Harold James's "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization". I really wish he had written "Seven Crashes" before I published "Slouching Towards...
13 Apr 2025, 06:12
For Donald Trump to want to resurrect the TPP—to recognize he made a huge mistake back in January 2017—would be possible only if Donald Trump actually had ideas and preferences about policies...
10 Apr 2025, 19:33
From 1954: a letter from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower. Accommodation of the New Deal Order at home; aggressive anti-communism (I would say counterproductive...
10 Apr 2025, 15:00
That was not when Sgt. Pepper taught his band to play. But it was the first time that my proto-weblog was archived by the universal online virtual library of humanity. What did it then find?…
10 Apr 2025, 13:38
I have extremely high hopes for this! And now there is a trailer... IMHO, Alexander Skarsgård totally nails both the flatness of external affect and the internal "I am incredibly anxious and do not...
08 Apr 2025, 16:53
We were once indispensable. Now we're just unpredictable. Economic power runs on trust. Trump has burned trust in America to the ground. Brexit slashed Britain's growth. Trumpxit is now doing the...
04 Apr 2025, 22:26
Dan Davies's book "The Unaccountability Machine" comes out in its U.S. edition today. So let me hoist the scattered, disorganized, self-indulgent and too-long review I wrote of it last year. I...
