Aaron Freedman
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History PhD candidate at Columbia, dissertating on the political economy of Wall Street in the 1980s
Stephen Miller "rejects the vision that shaped the post-1945 world, the conclusions reached by ordinary soldiers and national leaders, by preachers and poets, by the survivors of genocide and the remorseful publics that vowed never again."
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10 days ago
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Try to play "spot the neoliberalism" here and you see something interesting: 1. with the brief but notable exception of 2000-05, housing's share of wealth was on a secular decline from the Volcker Shock through the Great Recession 2. Retirement funds become more important instead
about 1 month ago
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Whereās my Zotero wrapped
about 1 month ago
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What's happening in sports betting now is an even stupider version of what happened in banking and investing in the 80s/90s: regulatory arbitrage that in theory offers better consumer prices and choices but ultimately fuels social and economic instability.
www.wsj.com/finance/kals...
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Kalshiās Competitiveness Still Limited Despite Parlay Debut
Analysts say the prediction market platformās new product is bare bones and could bring legal scrutiny, giving traditional sportsbooks an edge.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/kalshis-competitiveness-still-limited-despite-parlay-debut-182ee835?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAg_NGgwP4rmIHqSQ0887vS-h31S3iwD5Q9E70o7Vw9eerwupj33P_WuUCbBzNk%3D&gaa_ts=68debae0&gaa_sig=Oe-FnGqmW2lgwkKzwNzljWGIqwd_tOcJ3uC8xNiz0UKjzKRV74z1MC9zgvE9zxHUc14i3WlerqUgbYvqHvVK_Q%3D%3D
4 months ago
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Harry Braverman really did anticipate the dynamics that drive AI, the separation between conception and execution becoming so complete that no human is needed for the latter
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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An example of what's missing in our accounts of financialization and deregulation: an explanation of why Wall Street's #1 political priority in the 1980s is _defending_ Glass-Steagall.
4 months ago
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Thrilled to announce that I've been awarded the 2025 John E. Rovensky Fellowship in US Business and Economic History from the University of Illinois Foundation and
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4 months ago
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This is insulting, he should settle for nothing less than Ambassador to Turkey
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5 months ago
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If you're interested in a preview of my dissertation project: "Wall Streetās role isnāt just about markets...Itās about legitimacy, about how the government tries to deliver economic security without doing it directly.ā
global.columbia.edu/news/how-wal...
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https://global.columbia.edu/news/how-wall-street-became-washington-s-favorite-partner
6 months ago
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TIL the turn to cash flow vs profits in accounting and finance really began after the collapse of Penn Central
8 months ago
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I think my teaching in the age of AI position is basically "wax on, wax off": forcing students to arbitrarily work without AI (ie blue books) forces them to learn valuable, lifelong skills (ie critical reasoning) that they would/could not otherwise. It's about karate, not waxing.
9 months ago
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Itās very illuminating that the 2008 financial crisis was driven by the collapse in asset-backed securities, the most āsafeā and ārealā financial assets, backed by actual cash flows (ie mortgage payments) and even physical assets (homes). The opposite of crypto, or ā00 dot-com 1/
9 months ago
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Anyone interested in joining a roundtable on new directions in the history of US economic thought at the S-USIH conference in Detroit this November? Feel free to share with anyone interested, email
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9 months ago
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Trump and Musk are unfortunately operating in the Goldilocks zone for right wing politics: cutting the administrative state as much as possible without spooking Wall Street (which depends on predictable expectations) and triggering economic chaos and a mass streets opposition
11 months ago
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