I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

If only there were people who could go around and find out what the reality is, and then perhaps report on it back to everyone. They could even publish their reporting in print or online, and possibly even make a business out of keeping folk informed about what's happening in the world. If only.

No one can do a deal with America and expect it to be upheld.

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

“As I wasn’t educated on the intricacies of a datacenter, I wasn’t bearish enough on the economics of an AI datacenter.”

www.marketwatch.com/story/this-a...

Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.

Torsten Sløk at Apollo:

"We have put together a 75-page chart book with private sector data to monitor during the shutdown, and it is available here. We will update and publish this going forward as long as the shutdown continues."

#econsky #finsky

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"Without the release of the September inflation report, there is no way the Treasury can accurately set the I Bond’s new variable rate or composite rate in any traditional way..same is true for the updated composite rates for all I Bonds ever issued."

#econsky #finsky

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Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

How much of Claudia Sheinbaum’s popularity is connected to having been in the most awesome photo a world leader has ever been in?

Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity.

This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.

Good night, and good luck.

Brad is unimpressed.

#econsky

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This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

Spoiler: "the use of tariffs as a broad revenue source is misguided."

#econsky

The fella had issues, fer shur.

"These economic reports, among others, will not be issued during the shutdown:

Oct. 3: September employment report
Oct. 15: Consumer Price Index for September
Oct. 16: Real earnings for September
Oct. 17: Producer Price Index for September"

#econsky #finsky

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#NumbersDay #EconSky

The generals are calling them “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” because of how badly they bombed.

The Admin's actions are stopping clean energy supply from coming online while AI is spiking demand. Costs are going up. youtu.be/f6536KWBZAc?...

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story: