My first column for The Guardian: On Trump's attempt to take over the Fed. He's taking a page out of Nixon's playbook: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

My first column for the FT: Trump pushes Mexico back to the future: www.ft.com/content/2f9d...

"China is turning the ‘emerging market energy leapfrog’ from concept to reality." 50% of China's 242 GW of solar exports went to emerging nations in 2024! ~63% of emerging economies had higher solar share than US in 2023. ~25% had higher economy-wide electrification than US in 2023. #energysky

Big finding:the claim that moving families to better neighborhoods improves children’s prospects is wrong.

The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.

It seems like federal district courts are in full revolt against SCOTUS. I've never seen such direct scathing criticism of SCOTUS like this from the bench over their shadow docket rulings quietly overturning precedent without explanation. From the Harvard decision today.

After she caved and voted to confirm Hegseth, RFK, Gabbard, Bondi, the lot of them.

There’s a sucker born every minute… and some of them come highly credentialed.

LA Ports: Imports Up, Exports Down in July www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/08/la-p... This is the 8th consecutive month with exports down YoY.

Seems problematic.

It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.

Time to re-up this: Trump wants to punish Brazil because Brazil did a better job than the U.S. to protect its democracy. wapo.st/3U5JMXB

Yes, this IS absolute madness.

"this deal is unlikely to end the attacks. The federal government, and this administration, is simply too powerful and too arbitrary to be credibly bargained with." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

With Japan in the 1980s and China today, we keep overreacting — and paying the price, @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4nRC69f

The rise of China does bring about important new challenges for American policy, @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social writes. "But the popular interpretation of the China shock is guiding the United States down a self-defeating path." wapo.st/4nRC69f

Remember the 1980s, when the big threat came from Japan? Americans have frowned on trade ever since. My column today: wapo.st/4lJ83iA

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Back in 2017, when Trump failed to dismantle Obamacare, it looked like Americans would finally get what citizens of every other affluent nation have: universal healthcare coverage. But no, the GOP finally succeeded in tearing the promise down. wapo.st/46C37XP

The United States’ massive military capabilities have proven unable to ensure peace or stability. So what’s the case for massive NATO rearmament? wapo.st/3I9xNpe

Trump might convince his MAGA base that he is WINNING! his war against immigrants. But he is a businessman above all — one who has been known to illegally employ immigrant workers. He has no interest in getting them out of the workforce. His immigration raids are a performance. wapo.st/3G4AesC

The Trump administration calls this waste & fraud. But foreign aid has contributed to major successes in alleviating misery around the world. This is what we stand to lose 👇 wapo.st/4naGi3u

📉 Birth rates are falling yet governments aren't listening to what people need in order to create the families they want. Let the @washingtonpost.com ‬explain some of the reasons why fewer people are having children: unf.pa/bbp ✍ @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social #TheRealFertilityCrisis

Who is Trump governing for? His econ platform (BBB+Tariffs) would cut the income of the poorest households by over 6 percent. All but the top 20 percent of households lose out. Turns out MAGA refers to a pretty narrow slice of America

So end the Trump administration’s workplace raids. Like all workplace raids before.

If Trump wants America to have more babies, he could start by embracing immigrant families. wapo.st/43RERxV

Trump is threatened by America's diversity. So he wants to make it disappear. Great column by @crampell.bsky.social and @ashendruk.com www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

What's a "good" jobs-report number? The breakeven job level needed to keep employment steady is just 50k, vs 160k a year ago. The immigration surge is over, and peak boomers are aging into retirement. Our rules of thumb about slack, overheating, etc, must adjust.

What does it matter that the U.S. is the most affluent nation on earth when its political leaders leave its people to languish and die? wapo.st/4ktlAdk

If Martians exist, they must undoubtedly be relieved that Musk’s efforts to occupy Mars have taken a knock of late. It would truly suck to be colonized by a nation so indifferent to the suffering of its own. wapo.st/4ktlAdk

“It may be a very dandy plan, but it has to meet the statute”: Judge Jane A. Restani on the dubious legal grounds on which Trump is justifying his trade war. 💪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Trump may talk loudly about the plight of working Americans. Yet by the all-American principle that one puts one’s money where one’s heart is, the Trump coalition has revealed a soft spot for the rich. wapo.st/3HaeOdG

"By the all-American principle that one puts one’s money where one’s heart is, the Trump coalition has a soft spot for the rich," @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social writes.

In the battle over the soul of MAGA, Steve Bannon lost. Elon Musk won. My most recent column: wapo.st/3HaeOdG

Trump's "big beautiful" tax bill offers new evidence about who he truly loves. Maybe voting for him last November was not such a great idea for the 20 million-plus MAGA supporters on Medicaid. wapo.st/3HaeOdG

Trump's plan to equalize the price of meds with that in other countries would make the pricing mechanism for prescription drugs worse, offering Americans a tiny discount but forcing citizens of other countries to pay a lot more, delivering a blow to global welfare. wapo.st/45k5xd0

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

A remarkable man who changed so many lives with his kindness, curiosity, and generous mentoring

Ooof!! www.wsj.com/health/welln...

"Putting it more succinctly, only a social democratic state is compatible with market economy. All other market economies will lead to the destruction of society." @brankomilan.bsky.social summarizes Polanyi's Great Transformation. open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...

Right wing populists around the world thought their time had come it hasn’t worked out as expected wapo.st/4jLe4do

🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.

We agree more than we think we do Democrats and Republicans both think people in the other group disagree with them on immigration much more than they do Summary—> behavioralscientist.org/the-divide-b... Research by Michael Pasek & Samantha Moore-Berg in @pnas.org —> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

7th District’s first Pope @chicagofed.bsky.social

"How many dolls and how many pencils are you personally willing to give up to make America great again?" In the latest episode of "Impromptu," @danamilbank.bsky.social asks this important question to @crampell.bsky.social and @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social. Check out their responses:

Could China win this war? Trump's tariffs on the world may be hiked, lowered, canceled and restarted, exchanged for bitcoin, dipped in chocolate, or repositioned to combat, say, human trafficking.When the dust settles the world’s center of gravity may well have moved some distance across the Pacific

Can Beijing look beyond its narrow self-interest and make the concessions needed to take advantage of the strategic opportunities offered by the U.S. going rogue? wapo.st/3GI4fhJ

Washington’s wanton behavior — cutting aid, coercing longtime allies, ignoring international rules and undermining multinational institutions — opens an unprecedented opportunity for China to reconfigure international alliances and shift the balance of power in its favor. wapo.st/3GI4fhJ

The Trump Playbook:   Take credit for the strong economy he inherited.
Crash that economy with needless tariffs.
Blame others for the mess he made.
Repeat.