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
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Desis have won in NYC and are now oppressing the Italians 😤
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Desis have won in NYC and are now oppressing the Italians 😤
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Reporting about the tragedy in DC really irks me.
Talking about, “National Guard members” like they’re, “members of the local knitting club.”
They’re American soldiers and airmen. They wear a uniform just like active duty. Our enemies see them the same. Report on them appropriately.
Talking about, “National Guard members” like they’re, “members of the local knitting club.”
They’re American soldiers and airmen. They wear a uniform just like active duty. Our enemies see them the same. Report on them appropriately.
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reporting about the tragedy in DC really irks me.
Talking about, “National Guard members” like they’re, “members of the local knitting club.”
They’re American soldiers and airmen. They wear a uniform just like active duty. Our enemies see them the same. Report on them appropriately.
Talking about, “National Guard members” like they’re, “members of the local knitting club.”
They’re American soldiers and airmen. They wear a uniform just like active duty. Our enemies see them the same. Report on them appropriately.
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JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
No or no go decision for thanks giving dinner with a coughing toddler.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
No or no go decision for thanks giving dinner with a coughing toddler.
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This is an excellent thread- again, people that want to talk about what DOGE “was really about” need to reckon with the fact that most of the people involved started from an epistemic bubble where government employees were all-powerful manipulators who refused to be governed themselves.
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is an excellent thread- again, people that want to talk about what DOGE “was really about” need to reckon with the fact that most of the people involved started from an epistemic bubble where government employees were all-powerful manipulators who refused to be governed themselves.
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for hundreds of years shipbuilding has been a battleground between "this new technology will change everything" and "please for the love of God just plan better" and somehow the first team usually wins, with dubious results
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
for hundreds of years shipbuilding has been a battleground between "this new technology will change everything" and "please for the love of God just plan better" and somehow the first team usually wins, with dubious results
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LLMs being good at poetry and proofs but bad at knowing whether an empirical fact is true or false is an unexpected win for Platonism
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
LLMs being good at poetry and proofs but bad at knowing whether an empirical fact is true or false is an unexpected win for Platonism
Hah hah hah so many people will die terribly from the industrial accidents.
South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai sees an opportunity to accelerate America’s shipbuilding revival by deploying artificial intelligence.
AI Opens Faster Path to Trump Shipbuilding Goal, HD Hyundai Says
South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai sees an opportunity to accelerate America’s shipbuilding revival by deploying artificial intelligence.
bloom.bg
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hah hah hah so many people will die terribly from the industrial accidents.
Playing poker is extremely early 2000s bxsci coded.
i kinda agree that poker isn't very left-coded because 1) it's male-coded and 2) gambling generally is clearly right-coded now.
that doesn't mean lefty people can't, shouldn't, or don't play poker and it certainly shouldn't be a surprise that e.g. Mamdani does
that doesn't mean lefty people can't, shouldn't, or don't play poker and it certainly shouldn't be a surprise that e.g. Mamdani does
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Playing poker is extremely early 2000s bxsci coded.
I had a very nyc moment. I just asked my Muslim friend if honey was kosher because I wasn’t sure a grocery store had it and he reminded me that we eat it on Passover. Black lady next to me crumbled over laughing.
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I had a very nyc moment. I just asked my Muslim friend if honey was kosher because I wasn’t sure a grocery store had it and he reminded me that we eat it on Passover. Black lady next to me crumbled over laughing.
Time to remember the adage that the mayor of NYC is perpetually politically fucked.
Per recent reports, it appears that Julia Menin has attained the support needed to become Speaker of the NYC Council, with 35 Council People publicly supporting her — granting her 36 votes (including herself) to become Speaker of the Council.
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Time to remember the adage that the mayor of NYC is perpetually politically fucked.
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an oil war? in 2025? this is beginning to feel more like the real motivator here is not energy geopolitics is nostalgia for an earlier times when the American gerontocracy felt more virile and potent.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
an oil war? in 2025? this is beginning to feel more like the real motivator here is not energy geopolitics is nostalgia for an earlier times when the American gerontocracy felt more virile and potent.
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My pre-budget take for the LSE Politics blog is up:
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Wealth tax and looser fiscal rules won’t save the Budget | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The narrative on the left that a wealth tax and looser fiscal rules would solve the Chancellor's 2025 Budget headaches has got out of hand.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My pre-budget take for the LSE Politics blog is up:
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.
Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.
Not a great budget backdrop.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Dimitriev just stabbed him in the back lol.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Dimitriev just stabbed him in the back lol.
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We convert the data centers into mixed use residential space.
a man in a suit stands in front of a cartoon drawing of a rainbow and a sun
ALT: a man in a suit stands in front of a cartoon drawing of a rainbow and a sun
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We convert the data centers into mixed use residential space.
Weird question but does anyone I know on here live in Maine and if so, do you have a smart meter? I just read a wild statistic about penetration in Maine and I am just mentally not believing it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Weird question but does anyone I know on here live in Maine and if so, do you have a smart meter? I just read a wild statistic about penetration in Maine and I am just mentally not believing it.
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Key take-aways:
⛽️Energy was a key swing factor (60% from gasoline)
📈#Tariffs passthrough building via core goods
💡Business markups swinging wildly, last couple of months indicate a squeeze in margins for final demand trade services (margins for retailers & wholesalers)
⛽️Energy was a key swing factor (60% from gasoline)
📈#Tariffs passthrough building via core goods
💡Business markups swinging wildly, last couple of months indicate a squeeze in margins for final demand trade services (margins for retailers & wholesalers)
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Key take-aways:
⛽️Energy was a key swing factor (60% from gasoline)
📈#Tariffs passthrough building via core goods
💡Business markups swinging wildly, last couple of months indicate a squeeze in margins for final demand trade services (margins for retailers & wholesalers)
⛽️Energy was a key swing factor (60% from gasoline)
📈#Tariffs passthrough building via core goods
💡Business markups swinging wildly, last couple of months indicate a squeeze in margins for final demand trade services (margins for retailers & wholesalers)
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conceptually its kinda interesting - innovation of vc investing is that we now can grow companies at scale with pvt capital with the kind of hand-waving that previously got people constantly into "fraud" territory if you were to do it at a listed company and things go south lol
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
conceptually its kinda interesting - innovation of vc investing is that we now can grow companies at scale with pvt capital with the kind of hand-waving that previously got people constantly into "fraud" territory if you were to do it at a listed company and things go south lol
My I’m not Enron tshirt
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
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@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My I’m not Enron tshirt
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Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing.
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing.
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
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The revealed preference of Trumpism is that China is the technologically superior country.
Lutnick on the EU: "Another example -- they rule out diesel gas and you gotta have batteries here by 2035. But Europe doesn't make batteries! Only certain countries make batteries and Europe is not one of them. They gotta think better about themselves ... come on! Think correctly."
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The revealed preference of Trumpism is that China is the technologically superior country.
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Anyway, I told my mom that I loved her, but had she given birth to me in Helmand, I would hate all women for all time.
Which is a really succinct explanation for Southern Helmand.
Which is a really succinct explanation for Southern Helmand.
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Anyway, I told my mom that I loved her, but had she given birth to me in Helmand, I would hate all women for all time.
Which is a really succinct explanation for Southern Helmand.
Which is a really succinct explanation for Southern Helmand.