Let’s call a lie a lie, shall we?

when i was a kid, a bully pushed me down during recess. that night, my mom taught me how to throw a punch, and the next time the bully came at me, he got a face full of little girl fist. when my mom was called, she had a one-word response: “attagirl.” and the bully never fucking touched me again.

Every city and county in the country has identifiable problems. None of them justify military action against their citizens, or the imposition of a national dictatorship. A decade ago, this would have been a patently obvious statement that no one serious in politics would have disagreed with.

Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died at 95.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Good point about economic data and economy by St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem: One reason "the U.S. is the largest, most dynamic economy in the world with the deepest capital markets, is because it is and has been the best measured economy in the world."

Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School): To this point, tariffs have been mostly absorbed by American retailers with some pass-through of these costs to American consumers. Foreign exporters have not lowered their prices. mailchi.mp/econofact/fi...

Thrilled that my new book "The World's Worst Bet" was named a must-read by the @nextbigidea.bsky.social Here's an audio tease of some highlights nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/lea...

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

here’s the clip of someone saying “you’re an idiot,” as Levi — one of RFK Jr’s handpicked vaccine advisers — suggests other scientists are being overconfident about vaccine safety data

#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency. Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll. www.bls.gov/cex/notices/... #econsky

Before last week, NATO's art. 4 had been activated seven times. Now it has been activated twice in less than ten days, by Poland over the drone incursions and Estonia over the air space by violation by Russian fighter jets.

"Trump Invokes ‘Golden Share’ to Block U.S. Steel Plans for Illinois Plant' share.google/L4WGdXdnVBfD... Politics turns Granite City's ancient, inefficient (& dirty) blast furnaces back on, again:

It is harder to dismiss worries about tampering than it would have been before August 1st (especially since there is no explanation offered…)

I lived through the dot-com bubble and boy does this bring back memories.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

From today's Morning Joe www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

New Yorker cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES Um, whut?

Fired C.D.C. Director Describes Clashes With Kennedy and Turmoil at Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Et tu, Scott Bessent? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Don’t do this

And they kept saying it was about freedom of choice.

Just sat through a presentation full of pie charts and bar graphs and I didn’t understand it but now I’m fricken starving.

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

“As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.” A Plea for President Trump With a Fragile Country on Edge www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

David J. Lynch: how #globalization benefited the winners, but #policymakers failed to help those left behind. NEW Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt “The World’s Worst Bet with David J. Lynch” @davidjlynch.bsky.social www.politicon.com/podcasts/the...

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Paul Krugman replies to Scott Bessent’s diatribe against the Fed.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

If We Keep This Up, Charlie Kirk Will Not Be the Last to Die www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Total federal spending is up +8% in 2025 year-to-date to Sept 9 over 2024. The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

Great conversation about my new book “The World’s Worst Bet” with Al Hunt and James Carville open.spotify.com/episode/5oxH...

I had the pleasure of speaking with @davidjlynch.bsky.social about his new book "The World’s Worst Bet" (currently #1 on Amazon for Globalization!) We spoke about the disproportionate impacts of globalization, economic development, and AI. Listen here: open.substack.com/pub/thedevel...

“The World’s Worst Bet” is off to a good start: #1 in Amazon’s globalization rankings

Excerpt from “The World’s Worst Bet” in Politico today (don’t @ me, I didn’t write the headline) www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Big excerpt from “The World’s Worst Bet” in the Post’s print edition is a nice way to start pub day

We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

"'The World's Worst Bet' is how we got here...It is the missing link of the history from the fall of the Soviet Union until today," says Ben Crawford of The Road To Now podcast theroadtonow.com/episodes/how...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Statement from the National Association of Business Economics in light of ongoing attacks on the quality and integrity of US data and BLS staff. It is a pretty transparent effort to reduce transparency and accountability, not increase it @nabe-econ.bsky.social nabe.com/common/Uploa...

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