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WEEKLY BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-09-19 Th – Beragampengetahuan
My weekly read-around… Yasheng Huang on the history of China; income inequality in the US and Scandinavia since WWII; Monty Python on our debt to the Romans; SubStack Notes; very briefly noted; & Fed Governor Michelle Bowman does Trump’s bidding; the market expectations of Fed policy rollercoaster; reading about Rome; Fed-watcher uncertainty; Cicero is not […]
WEEKLY BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-06-15 Sa – Beragampengetahuan
Trying to peer into the MAMLM LLM black box; social control of women by state; corporate America & its workers; very briefly noted; Shadow Fed conference comments on Orphanides & on Levy & Plosser; do financial system-aware Republicans have any ovaries at all?; six office-hour questions; the supercore PCE soft landing was a year ago; […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-04-17 We – Beragampengetahuan
The Frenchness of English; dog preferences; very briefly noted; Trying Again to Understand Recent Monetary Policy; Sundowning in America—Donald’s dementia—& England ca. 1900 as the Only True Steampower-Industrial Society EVAR, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-15 Mo… It really is a creole that escaped from its bounds… Share …but where does Rosie most prefer to hang […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-02 Tu – Beragampengetahuan
Faux & Chafkin on FTX a grift from the get-go; Levine is on the point of abandoning belief in “fundamental values’; we are not quite completely ignorant about why MAMLMs do what they do; Joe Lieberman as VBER—Value Below Expected Replacement—champion; industrial policy successes & failures; why have Republicans suddenly decided that the economy is […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-23 Sa – Beragampengetahuan
That the post-FTX bankruptcy team has managed to recover a lot of the value Sam Bankman-Fried stole does not mean he didn’t steal it; American commercial real estate sword-of-Damocles blogging; the BEAST that is the Nvidia DGX GB200; Nvidia tries to become like Apple; Jacob Levy on academic freedom vs. free speech; Joanna Stern & […]
Winter will briefly return to Houston this week – Space City Weather – Beragampengetahuan
Summary: Houston will see one more warm day before a front arrives on Wednesday to cool us down for a couple of days. The first half of the weekend looks rather pleasant, but we’re keeping our eye on the potential for the return of some decent rainfall next week. It’s a very mild morning across […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-12-13 We – Beragampengetahuan
Market economies lack sufficient information-transmission bandwidth (& so does everything else); Turchin & Nefedov on decline and fall; Yglesias on moderate Democrats wandering in the wilderness; training for a concert tour; King Phillip’s War; Very Briefly Noted; & E.P. Thompson & the deluded followers of Joanna Southcott, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-12-09 Sa… Economics: The […]
These Bitcoin holders briefly experienced pain – Here’s what happened – Beragampengetahuan
Bitcoin’s LTH-SOPR recently fell under 1. This showed that the coin’s long-term holders briefly sold at a loss. Bitcoin’s [BTC] Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) for its long-term holders (LTH) recently slipped below 1. This indicated that this cohort of investors briefly sold their holdings at a loss. Long-Term Holder Spent Output Profit Ratio (LTH-SOPR) […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-19 Su – Beragampengetahuan
Memories of economic policymaking during the Carter administration; from goods-focused engineering to human capital as the primary urban growth engine; the rise in the 10-Yr Treasury rate substantially reverses itself; Zeke Faux continues his book tour for his truly excellent Number Go Up; very briefly noted; & Hoisted from the Archives: Why you should be […]
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-23 Mo – Beragampengetahuan
The fragility of agrarian sciences of domination, Elon Musk’s disgusting algorithm, The Biden-Powell A vs. the Obama-Bernanke C, & Zack Beauchamp on the genocidal ideology of Hamas; annular solar eclipse over Shiprock; TSMC’s 3-nm “teething” problems; very briefly noted; & Quiggin & Smith on techno-optimism, Berry on “commercial society”, Engels & Marx as Scottish Enlightenment-influenced […]