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 […]
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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;
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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
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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
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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 &
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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
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Since re-launching Community Notes, formerly known as Birdwatch, Elon Musk has been time and again praising the feature, implying that it makes his social media platform X the “best source of truth.” His latest praise for the same came when the feature flagged a post by President Joe Biden about inflation and the economy. What Happened: Over the weekend, DogeDesigner, a graphic designer at Dogecoin DOGE/USD, took to
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
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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
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The usually reliable Megaw of the beragampengetahuan gets the inflation news wrong; Molly White is a boss as she covers the FTX trial; Timothy Burke wrestles with how to think about the human social practices of war and terrorism; Auden confronts the world of 1939; a map of the terrorist Operation Al-Aqsa Flood; Timothy Garton
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