Course two: The backbone of the business elite. In Turkey, conglomerates folded under Erdoğan’s pressure. In the US, @johncassidysays.bsky.social shows CEOs already praising Trump, Disney suspending Jimmy Kimmel, networks bending to lawsuits. I will tell you what happens next!

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

After ABC/Disney's capitulation to the Trump administration, a new column on why business leaders are being so spineless and what, if, anything, can be done to stiffen their vertebrae. Co-ordinated resistance? Boycotts? Protests? 1/4 www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

After ABC/Disney's capitulation to the Trump administration, a new column on why business leaders are being so spineless and what, if, anything, can be done to stiffen their vertebrae. Co-ordinated resistance? Boycotts? Protests? 1/4 www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

America will never embrace this reality, but the problem really, really, really is the guns.

Brendan said was his “dream” was in advance.

Karl Rove … is … Antifa?

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

Tallymen, Newcastle, photo by Jimmy Forsyth (1914-2009), who bought a cheap camera from a pawn shop in the early 1950s and used it to document his Scotswood Road community before buildings were demolished (@sidegallery.bsky.social).

In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:

You tell em, Leo

What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world. What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.

More news from the Department of You Couldn't Make It Up www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I hadn't quite realized how much China's exports to the US have fallen recently. Prior to the pandemic, the US deficit with China was on the order of 2 percent of GDP. Now it's down to half a percent.

ICYMI: Great reporting from the Times, following Deep Throat's advice: Follow the money. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

Good column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

In my latest TR column, I discuss AI's productivity paradox-a challenge that, as @johncassidysays.bsky.social recently reviewed @newyorker.com, is hardly unique to biopharma. I also explain why I prefer implementation pulled by lead users, vs pushed by mgmt: timmermanreport.com/2025/09/can-...

Mmmm, wonder what's going on here.

Bubbleicious

Epstein clearly planted the fake letter in the 2003 book in order to sabotage the president of the united states in 2025

Someone should write a book about how we got here. 🙃

Turn out that if you hit a globally integrated $30 trillion capitalist economy with tariffs, policy chaos, crackdowns on immigrant labor, and government layoffs, it starts to wilt. Who knew? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Turn out that if you hit a globally integrated $30 trillion capitalist economy with tariffs, policy chaos, crackdowns on immigrant labor, and government layoffs, it starts to wilt. Who knew? (Sarcasm emoji) www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

"The weakness in manufacturing, which was supposed to benefit from the pivot to all-out protectionism, is particularly striking."

The headline speaks for itself—my latest column. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Whodathunkit www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Thanks very much to Greg LaBlanc, of Berkeley, for inviting me on his unSILOed podcast for a broad-ranging talk about my latest book,Capitalism and Its Critics, and also my previous ones, Dot.Con and How Markets Fail. Here's the link: www.unsiloedpodcast.com/episodes/joh...:

This from @jaredb-econ.bsky.social "Labor Day message. History is clear that capitalism remains a highly effective system of generating growth and technological gains. But without an organized and aptly sized political counterforce, it will concentrate wealth and power..." 1/2

Many thanks to @kmcelheran.bsky.social for annotating my recent column on the economic impact of AI with some links to academic studies. In general, I try to link to articles that I reference, even obliquely, but in this case there were a lot of them, and I came up short.

The New Yorker's @johncassidysays.bsky.social touches on a large number of recent working papers to underscore the mixed findings currently emerging around the impact of AI. Links are missing, so it's very "insider baseball" in terms of knowing what studies he refers to.

This from @jaredb-econ.bsky.social "Labor Day message. History is clear that capitalism remains a highly effective system of generating growth and technological gains. But without an organized and aptly sized political counterforce, it will concentrate wealth and power..." 1/2

"That deafening silence on Tuesday was Republicans and business leaders reacting to Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab: his effort to fire Lisa Cook" My latest column: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Excited to have my research (co-authored with the dream team of @mjyang.bsky.social, Zachary Kroff, and @erikbryn.bsky.social) featured in the New Yorker!

"That deafening silence on Tuesday was Republicans and business leaders reacting to Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian power grab: his effort to fire Lisa Cook" My latest column: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

In Silicon Valley, people like to move at breakneck pace and break things. Economic history says: not so fast. My latest column argues that the economic payoffs from AI may take longer than expected to appear. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Statement from Fed Gov Lisa Cook: “President Trump purported to fire me “for cause” when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

In Silicon Valley, people like to move at breakneck pace and break things. Economic history says: not so fast. My latest column argues that the economic payoffs from AI may take longer than expected to appear. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The pettiness of the MAGA leaders and climbed aboards knows no bounds.

Very excited for this forthcoming @stoneeconucl.bsky.social event with @brankomilan.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @annastansbury.bsky.social, and Beatrice Cherrier! Registration required.

Seems like a good day to re-up this column from last week: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Every business day, big capitalist institutions depend on having access to unbiased economic statistics. It's time for them to step up and help protect the B.L.S. and other statistical agencies from Trump's encroachments. My latest column: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

The right-wing cable channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a libel lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems had brought against the channel for falsely claiming that the voting machine company had rigged votes in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.