Sounds like an economist's rebranding -- see also Econometrics as dressed up Statistics

This would make a hell of a dissertation/first book ...

On the one hand, America likes it when the IMF gives loans to right wing governments On the other have, owing foreign denominated debts can make the economy scream even when you have a right wing government So swap lines for the right Screaming for the left

Asked and answered.

how did libs get the f-35 in the national divorce

@adambonica.bsky.social has a great piece today arguing that the right way forward is creating a new axis around corruption and the rigged system. The fine picture he leads with is in chapter 1 of my forthcoming book with Taeku Lee. Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence!

They overreached and they know it.

His DMs read as weird as his tweets.

Americans are going to die because of a meme. Here, I'm especially disgusted because erstwhile Democrats bet their entire professional trajectory on ending the Biden presidency. I saw the QAnon ties at the moment it was all going down, why didn't the "But Muh Allies" crowd see it too? Shameful.

Before there were little free libraries, choices were way more limited

Correction Fox 2

I’m not sure how to make it happen but if someone can organize a boycott it should target Iger personally. Getting his scalp would chill corporate collaborators.

China's home ownership rate is ~90%, but only ~60% live in a home they own. The gap is mostly people who own homes in their hometown and moved to a city for work. IIRC China did the typical 90s Communist reform and gave everyone the dwelling they lived in. Is there such a gap in Eastern Europe?

Conservatives are obsessed with paranoid fantasies about sicko service workers fucking with them because their entire ideology is based around abusing them, it’s like a class version of their fears of white genocide

the uselessness of national Dems is thrown into such sharp relief as Illinois state senators physically take ICE on and Illinois congressional candidates, one of whom is the mayor of Evanston, get beaten and tear gassed at an ICE facility

Depleting foreign currency reserves, an enduring Argentine tradition.

Argentina: the country where every economic theory goes to die.

She’s GREATLY concerned

Tragically, Will Stancil is actually the closest thing this age has to a moral paragon because he was exposed to people being mean to him on the internet without becoming a Trumpist out of spite, a test which seemingly every other major Discourse Generator online has failed.

Lmfao

Even after abusing his power to get Kimmel fired, Trump is still seething with resentment. Hopefully to the point of ill health. KEEP RIDICULING THEM, THEY CAN’T HANDLE IT.

>do an airborne assault to capture & hold an airbase outside the capital city in a country surrounded by other countries hostile to you and one that's kinda frenemy, 300+ mi from friendly troops

Brad Lander is kind of my platonic ideal of a politician.

Last reskeet: McMaster and all the rest is proof that GWOT was an all-consuming degeneration of everyone who pushed it. Every person who made their name on it, even the 'good' ones who thought they could fight it the right way instead of advocating to end it, failed us and continue to.

A very good thread on why hyper rationalist types—which are now overwhelmingly liberals—are ill equipped for this moment. They’re dealing with the other end of the population spectrum who psychologically are nearly the total opposite

Ok, gotta respect these guys...

@delong.social is one of the most honest and intellectually rigorous people in any field.

New initiative!

@jasonfurman.bsky.social Re: "Mr. Miran is a terrific economist and comes at issues from a creative and original perspective; having less groupthink on the Fed is welcome." No. Simply no. You badly need to go talk to your colleague Oleg Itzkhoki about Miran's (lack of) knowledge of the... 1/

Carlson, much like Vance, is a completely empty vessel who contorts to fit wherever he senses power is, so this should mostly be taken as a savvy assessment of how toxic this shit is

Albanese announces A$2b for Clean Energy Finance Corp.

They’re going to arrest a governor and fail a grand jury indictment or something, they can’t stop hitting escalate and it’s just going to keep getting worse. Happy hump day!

here's a direct link to canceling your Disney+ account. post your cancellations in the comments. www.disneyplus.com/commerce/acc...

Dem donors should be funding branded opioid recovery programs and HS sports teams is my perennial rant.

It would be nice if these pieces in PW responded to actual policy proposals from places like Center for Public Enterprise… like mezzanine debt and revolving loan fund for public sector builders. Their critiques might be more coherent. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

This is precisely why we should aim to reduce the role that political clout plays by liberalizing land use rules and removing discretion.

This is a bizarre piece that blames YIMBYs for not restraining Karen Bass and anti apartment CMs for rolling back ED1 to exclude high resource single family areas. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/loo...

the khan should drill

Ffs

The only thing that stopped Germany from becoming at the very least one of the top handful of global powers was the immense self sabotage of starting and losing two wars, committing genocide and dictatorship.

The US allowed Israel to attack another ally. No reason to think it wouldn't allow Russia e.g. to attack Poland

Major milestone for the West: We commend the California Legislature, Governor Gavin Newsom, and the diverse coalition of stakeholders for their leadership in advancing AB 825 — a crucial next step toward independent governance of Western energy markets. THREAD 1/🧵 ow.ly/T3aY50WWm44

Fellas if Egypt decides to close the Suez to traffic bound for the US, is that good for supply chains and inflation

The problem for an aspiring despot with a social contract built around enabling goons to be their worst selves is that it’s hard for the leader to calibrate the exact level of awfulness in any given situation. The US model of authoritarianism is a lynch mob, not a regimented stormtrooper squad.

the gemeinschaft of the bezos fiefdom wapo and the sulzberger family business new york times verus the gessellschaft of the nikkei-owned financial times

weird. almost like we young people don't enjoy seeing our country's future have a hammer taken to it.

Tired: Lost in the sauce Feyginspired: Потерялся в повидле

Bro just @ me next time