Yakov Feygin
@buddyyakov.bsky.social
Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
Conjuncture for guys with bow ties.
Get in kids, it’s hot take Thursday. My latest⬇️
There is No Such Thing as Grand Strategy
The Continued Influence of a Bad Genre
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Conjuncture for guys with bow ties.
Most of all this shows he was a dipshit like a huge portion of rich guys who hang out with FSB econ thought leader types whose job is mostly to get rich people prostitutes.
dossier.center/jeffreyepste...
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian Connection:
Billionaire's ties with FSB Academy graduate revealed
dossier.center
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Most of all this shows he was a dipshit like a huge portion of rich guys who hang out with FSB econ thought leader types whose job is mostly to get rich people prostitutes.
dossier.center/jeffreyepste...
dossier.center/jeffreyepste...
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in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 3:18 AM
in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits
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I told y’all it'd be a busy day for critical minerals content!
I joined @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on Shift Key podcast to discuss all things minerals, including some of the splashy new Trump initiatives and progress reports.
Stockpiling, tax credits, and more!
🔌💡
shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...
I joined @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on Shift Key podcast to discuss all things minerals, including some of the splashy new Trump initiatives and progress reports.
Stockpiling, tax credits, and more!
🔌💡
shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...
Trump’s Most Self-Defeating Move on Rare Minerals | Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins
Rob digs deep on critical minerals with Full Tilt Strategies’ Nathaniel Horadam.
shows.acast.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I told y’all it'd be a busy day for critical minerals content!
I joined @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on Shift Key podcast to discuss all things minerals, including some of the splashy new Trump initiatives and progress reports.
Stockpiling, tax credits, and more!
🔌💡
shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...
I joined @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on Shift Key podcast to discuss all things minerals, including some of the splashy new Trump initiatives and progress reports.
Stockpiling, tax credits, and more!
🔌💡
shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...
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Shortage of power and even higher electric bills the own goal of the Trump’s ‘Blockade’ of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...
A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Shortage of power and even higher electric bills the own goal of the Trump’s ‘Blockade’ of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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Sacking The Washington Post probably has Bezos high-fiving his yachted authoritarian friends, all thinking they’re noble Centurions putting a knife into some loudmouth Senator under cover of darkness and saving Rome in the process.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
February 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Sacking The Washington Post probably has Bezos high-fiving his yachted authoritarian friends, all thinking they’re noble Centurions putting a knife into some loudmouth Senator under cover of darkness and saving Rome in the process.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
Put ICE in charge of building a fleet of AP 1000s and funding every data center.
The job right now isn't to advocate for more training, or body cams or QR codes or whatever because those things will be effective in their own right. It's to advocate for those things because it will bleed ICE's slush-fund white.
February 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Put ICE in charge of building a fleet of AP 1000s and funding every data center.
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"It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… and, uh, uh, you know… You know, you'll uh, uh—well, you know what I'm trying to say…"
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MAGA's "People's Capitalism"
An Alliance of Bourgeoisie and Mob
www.unpopularfront.news
February 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
"It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… and, uh, uh, you know… You know, you'll uh, uh—well, you know what I'm trying to say…"
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Consolidation!!!
DEVON ENERGY AGREED TO BUY COTERRA ENERGY IN A $21.4 BILLION ALL-STOCK DEAL, CREATING ONE OF THE LARGEST US SHALE PRODUCERS WITH OVER 1.6 MILLION BARRELS A DAY OF OUTPUT AND A STRONGER GRIP ON THE PERMIAN BASIN.
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Consolidation!!!
2nd amendment baby!
Pirro: "You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care if you're a law abiding law owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail. And that makes all the difference"
February 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
2nd amendment baby!
When you read the Epstein emails with the Eastern European women he trafficked, without looking at the addresses it’s impossible not to assume he’s the one that’s not a native English speaker.
February 2, 2026 at 12:49 PM
When you read the Epstein emails with the Eastern European women he trafficked, without looking at the addresses it’s impossible not to assume he’s the one that’s not a native English speaker.
Investors are a herd
Credit investors very concerned about geopolitlcal risk.. not so much oil, China, recession, rising rates
February 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Investors are a herd
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Good chart from Paul Krugman's latest piece. Feel like I would like some clarity over the scores from 2008 though, given FOMC transcripts have Warsh saying these things at the March, August and September meetings of that year.
February 2, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Good chart from Paul Krugman's latest piece. Feel like I would like some clarity over the scores from 2008 though, given FOMC transcripts have Warsh saying these things at the March, August and September meetings of that year.
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it's all an elite reproduction crisis, imo
February 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
it's all an elite reproduction crisis, imo
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"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics
Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
February 1, 2026 at 7:40 PM
"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics
It’s cold outside so the two year old is getting an intro to DBZ.
February 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
It’s cold outside so the two year old is getting an intro to DBZ.
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The reason Ilan Wurmans exist is because we let Richard Epsteins continue to exist in legal academia rather than kick them down the figurative professional staircase.
February 1, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The reason Ilan Wurmans exist is because we let Richard Epsteins continue to exist in legal academia rather than kick them down the figurative professional staircase.
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I'm proud to say I'm one of those who loathed Larry Summers before it was fashionable.
February 1, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I'm proud to say I'm one of those who loathed Larry Summers before it was fashionable.
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It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
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A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you.
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you.
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
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You’d basically get auto-flagged dealing with gmail addresses for potential further review. So imagine you’re DB compliance and are like “oh no it’s fine it’s just Jeffrey Epstein” in 2016.
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 PM
You’d basically get auto-flagged dealing with gmail addresses for potential further review. So imagine you’re DB compliance and are like “oh no it’s fine it’s just Jeffrey Epstein” in 2016.
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Furman and El-Erian aren't idiots, but absolutely no one thinks Dutta or Skanda owe their position to their father's influence or connections. Makes a difference!
January 31, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Furman and El-Erian aren't idiots, but absolutely no one thinks Dutta or Skanda owe their position to their father's influence or connections. Makes a difference!
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It's uncharitable, but "the people with prominent parents are on this beside of the argument" is a hell of a heuristic.
Neil Dutta and Skanda being so anti-Warsh (my perspective as well) while people like Jason Furman and El-Erian praised him say a lot about how different types of people judge qualifications and character when it comes to Fed governors.
January 31, 2026 at 1:41 PM
It's uncharitable, but "the people with prominent parents are on this beside of the argument" is a hell of a heuristic.