““Without protections, AI data centers could leave us holding the bag,” bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

This is an excellent rebuttal to the electoral theories of the abundance popularists www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

As our fossil fueled insurance crisis continues to escalate, FAIR plans should be considered an important plank of public policy. They should truly become “state run” rather than being operated for and by insurance companies. player.captivate.fm/episode/475c...

Great stuff here!

“And then Nordhaus and Schelling wrote….sweet talk [that] reframed the dangerous-sounding reports from scientists into an excuse to look away. Their narrative contributions may be among the most influential paragraphs in human history.” probablefutures.org/perspective/...

📣 Launching the Public Renewables Project! 📣 1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power. 🔗 www.publicrenewables.org

“Congress is on the verge of becoming totally irrelevant, in ways not imagined by the Founders.” prospect.org/politics/202...

Very well put by @nathantankus.bsky.social: “Powell must do everything in his power to compel the conventional wisdom of market traders to more adequately “price in” the degradation of the rule of law.” www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...

What were the DFL candidates for US Senate up to last Thursday? A contrast.

The fossil fueled insurance crisis is not just a coastal problem. I went on KUNM to discuss climate and insurance in New Mexico, the state with the nation’s highest rate of uninsurance www.kunm.org/show/lets-ta...

“At a military history museum, origami cranes from Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park are recycled into paper fans emblazoned with the Yamato, Japan’s “unsinkable” World War II battleship…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...

Never forget Yglesias’ argument that Powell’s regulatory record should be overlooked because there are other financial regulators… like the FCC? therevolvingdoorproject.org/matt-yglesia...

The Abundance/Effective Altruist crowd doesnt care about the role of finance in housing. In fact, they don’t even want to examine the role of finance within…the Federal Reserve! www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abundan...

Suddenly everyone is all "oops all this climate change is having tangible consequences like my house is on fire and I can't get insurance anymore?" YOUR state legislature can do something about it! @climateaf.bsky.social's @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social brings you: The State Economic Power Project

One of my all time favorite quips www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

👀”We understand how difficult it has been for homeowners who lost coverage when certain insurers that Demotech rated became insolvent.” The failures…were driven by “complex and fast-moving pressures” that developed faster than most people in the industry expected.” www.wsj.com/finance/smal...

“..it rarely gets mentioned that the architect of housing changes in Austin is the head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” prospect.org/politics/202...?

The Illinois Insurance Association acknowledges it has been a hard market for several years, but not to worry, it’s just a natural cycle. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/s...

“..limitations of any technology-based business model need to be considered together so that our critiques focus on real harms – not just the dark side of the dreams the industry is selling – and aren’t derailed by excitement over unrealistic industry promises.” fintechdystopia.com/chapters/int...

What an incredible quote futurism.com/openai-inves...

It has taken half of 2025 for the record for catastrophe bond issuance (set in 2024) to be surpassed www.ft.com/content/fcaf...

“The BLS had to estimate prices using backup methods 35% of the time in June, up from 30% in May and well above the ~9% level that was typical before the agency was impacted by the Trump administration laying off federal workers” senatebankingdemocrats.substack.com/p/5-key-piec...

“From what I saw, I believe that finding and extracting more oil is one of the biggest use cases of AI today.” heated.world/p/he-helped-...

Taking a step back from the daily drumbeat: a beautiful personal essay on the roots of today's abundant-accelerationism in 20th-century Midwestern industrialism. And: fun things to do in Duluth by @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social

My colleague @jordanhaedtler.bsky.social has written an eloquent personal reflection on the exciting promise of climate and industrial policy, and the recent setbacks, through the lens of his hometown Duluth MN.

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔”this is likely fine, as long as Florida’s insurance market remains in its now more healthy state and major catastrophes don’t strike the region.” www.artemis.bm/news/florida...

WaPo the morning after the Senate approved a massive and dangerous expansion of the police state www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Why are you in DC collaborating with Republicans on a crypto bill right now

“the number of companies that didn’t pass a financial fitness test the state administers has more than doubled since last year. And it’s happening despite numerous legislative changes aimed at shoring up the state’s wobbly insurance market.” www.palmbeachpost.com/story/weathe...

Lol dreamfornyc.com/dream-box

What could go wrong? www-ft-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/7962...

BBB provisions that were cut from the IRA likely would have helped inflation come down faster theintercept.com/2022/11/02/i...

“While widely shared abundance is a worthy aim, it will require a radically different program than further delegating public decision-making to private hands.“ www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

States shouldnt let public catastrophe models fade as an idea just because the federal government no longer a reliable partner on the effort. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

“It is difficult to imagine that Republicans would enjoy their current trifecta, fueling the possible collapse of the American republic, if it weren’t for crypto.” newrepublic.com/article/1950...

Thanks to @chasewoodruff.bsky.social for bringing the receipts to counter the “groups” narrative coloradonewsline.com/2025/05/09/h...

The $15 billion LPO loan to PG&E referenced here was meant to support grid modernization to make Californians safer from wildfires prospect.org/environment/...

This week, we send up black smoke after every meeting that is unproductive and could have been an email.

I can’t believe the betting odds favorite to win the Kentucky Derby is a horse called Journalism.

My Canadian climate politics election preview hillheat.news/p/the-canadi...

This is a VERY tame title for an event featuring an independent financial regulator who was fired yesterday. IMHO it would be helpful for the institutions that still exist to speak more plainly and honestly about what is happening connect.brookings.edu/register-to-...

The DFL town hall at Denfeld High School is now under way www.house.mn.gov/Caucus/View/...

“To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“‘No food company is going to pay for these studies. Nobody has the patent on fruits and vegetables, so why would the banana trade association fund a large study that was testing a dietary pattern that also included tomatoes, vegetable oils, and healthy meats.” hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/01/n...

An Arizona Senate committee voted to reject the governor’s appointed insurance regulator, claiming that her participation in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ climate and resiliency task force made her a “DEI activist” pro.stateaffairs.com/az/yellow-sh...

Recall that in his first term, Trump nominated Judy Shelton, who favored getting rid of deposit insurance, to the Fed. He reportedly wanted to elevate her to chair. A Senate Covid outbreak in December 2020 prevented her confirmation. www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/o...

My latest scoop:

“A critically short-staffed National Weather Service appeared to issue a near-record number of totnado warnings for a single day.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How are you doing, Florida? jasongarcia.substack.com/p/a-little-p...

Louisiana voters just handed a major set of losses to Jeff Landry, Koch $. Among the victories, defeating a major tax scam and a despicable proposal to send juveniles to Angola lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/l...