Earlier this week I came across a book with this dedication page (from 1938).

Friar is right, she was calling for derisking state not for backstops - an important nuance that should be considered together with Jensen Huang claiming China ‘will win’ AI race with US at the same time. Capital wants Trump to activate subsidies, invoking China card that worked so well w Biden.

Y'all ever notice how nobody can ever actually point to any *specific thing* that Mamdani *actually said* that was antisemitic, and how people are just baldly asserting it anyway

Right wing masculinity experts are viewing the Zeteo stream and weeping at the left's masculine dominance

“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?” Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

previous increases in immigration enforcement caused child care centers to simply shut down

Hard agree

Now antitrusters and Marxists are in dialogue, can someone take a look at predatory pricing through the lens of the Okishio theorem vs. Shaikhian real competition?

Meanwhile, in the suburbs, garage size has failed to keep up truck inflation

NYC to Trump:

Hell yes

There you have it

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

More than half the time now when I hear a song I like and try to buy the album (as one used to do), I find it does not exist outside of Spotify. From what little I know of music industry economics, not a great state of affairs!

Virginia, along with 17 other states, abolished private property in retail liquor stores, instituting a government monopoly. Mamdani is merely proposing creating a small handful of public grocery stores, operating within the same private market as Gristedes.

Need an intellectual history of how "state capacity" migrated out of political science twice, and lost its intended meaning both times. First, to economics. Then, to the punditry.

I have been really enjoying this series. Btw, for anyone interested in the potential (and even deeper tensions) in attempts to unite workers' movements for collective justice and antimonopolist smallholders movements for autonomy, may I suggest...

Martin Sanbu makes an obvious, but crucial, point. One that seems to have gotten lost in the current fervor for deregulation

I was taught that workers choose to be wage workers instead of entrepreneurs because of their low risk tolerance, and corresponding preference for the insurance of wage income over the risk of residual claimant status.

[SNORE]

This looks like a compelling topic. (H/t @besttrousers.bsky.social). Crank $0.02: The first time I read a franchise contract, I thought it was one of the most abusive, one-sided things I had ever seen. You are promised nothing as a franchisee. They are unconscionable.

No evidence of an unusual number of layoffs happening in regular state unemployment insurance program data. The data is filed weekly by states despite the fed shutdown & available thru week ending 10/18/25. Thnx @econberger.bsky.social for helping me get up to speed on this data source.

what weakens unions is the assumption that having the same level or lack of pigmentation in the skin is going be a solid basis for solidarity.

1. This will be a forced labor camp; 2. Utah is already planning to make it easier to commit people to it.

@maiamindel.bsky.social noted the other day that if he’s talking about a black or latino person he will without fail use the phrase “low IQ”

The Founders anticipated the possibility of a corrupt, venal, lawbreaking, wannabe monarch president. What they did not expect is numerous people achieving prominent national office and not wanting to guard their own power. The combo of ego to run but pathetic absence of ego in office stands out.

Beyond parody

The Biden FTC/DOJ approach to mergers was to prioritize *structural* remedies: blocking them outright. Very little room for the kind of discretion that this person is expressing concern about.

[kool keith voice] i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

Of course, the cognitive dissonance of US ag (hating immigrants while depending on immigrant labor, being anti-imports while they depend on exports, talking about freedom while they they are consistently subsidized) is the result of centuries of racist practices and mollycoddling from both parties.

Editors, it turns out, are really important.

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I'm gonna have to become a really good mechanic so I can keep driving my 2013 Toyota forever

You get one guess on who shot the Marshal...

i think this is why Charlie Kirk's death shook the right so much. For all their prognosticating about how "ackshually libs are the violent ones", left violence is extremely low, so A. the fact it happened freaked them out, and B. "don't you liberals know We're The Ones With The Guns" is load-bearing

Big tech companies that want to build giant air-conditioned warehouses full of computers should BYONCE - Bring Your Own New Clean Energy - and pay for their own grid connections rather than today's norm of having utilities and regulators force the costs onto ratepayers. The companies can afford it.

What a self-report. Editor at the NYT admits to reading the world through the lense of his X feed, which makes sense of so much that comes from the NYT and other legacy media outlets (where I assume this is also a problem).

DHS has been lying about this shooting of an American citizen. 🧵

Note that the image is the 12 month moving average - the real time decline is faster.

What I find most disturbing about this guy is it seems like he could have ended up anywhere on the political spectrum, depending on who his rich and powerful patrons at Yale and after turned out to be. Nothing there at his core, just ambition.

Not there yet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_...

fellas, is it jihad to enjoy being alive?

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

Feels insane to say but honestly think it's probably true--of all major institutional leaders, I'm not sure any have been more effective at resisting and fighting the far right than these two popes

Sir, is it actually "your country" that has turned on you. Again, we aren't going to get far if folks refuse to correctly identify who they should ACTUALLY be mad at. Stop using euphemisms. Who is responsible?

Counting as a substitute for thinking: Few things strike me as sillier than comparing the deep, intensive *organizing* of the Civil Rights Movement with the sporadic mobilizations of No Kings, via participant counts. Nothing wrong with NK! But come on.

Fantastic news! Now NY should go further and pass the REST Act. The beautiful thing about rent stabilization is it works really well at preventing landlords from jacking up the rent--whether they use an algorithm or not

“Get out. And give us more money” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.