Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦
@dbcurren.bsky.social
writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.com
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Book Review - Ricardo's Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer
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In his #book on #DavidRicardo, #NatDyer is careful not to commit the “Ricardian Vice.” His book is very empirical. It’s full of fascinating #biographical details about #Ricardo and other influential figures in #economics, and lots of engaging history. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/10/by-d...
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what a color
#Pansy, #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #Fall #Autumn
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
what a color
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what if we kissed... under the missle toad
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
what if we kissed... under the missle toad
“Fighting #climatechange, saving #democracy, and eradicating #poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s #leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them.” mailchi.mp/project-synd...
Holiday 2025 Reading List
mailchi.mp
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“Fighting #climatechange, saving #democracy, and eradicating #poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s #leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them.” mailchi.mp/project-synd...
Holiday 2025 Reading List
mailchi.mp
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Fighting #climatechange, saving #democracy, and eradicating #poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s #leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them.” mailchi.mp/project-synd...
“A #quest is always an #education both as to what is sought and in #self-knowledge.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“A #quest is always an #education both as to what is sought and in #self-knowledge.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
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Culinária feita com IA, a receita para o fracasso, com o perdão do trocadilho 😅
"Recipe bloggers say AI-generated summaries and recipes are distorting how people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses and potentially ruining holiday dinners"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"Recipe bloggers say AI-generated summaries and recipes are distorting how people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses and potentially ruining holiday dinners"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Culinária feita com IA, a receita para o fracasso, com o perdão do trocadilho 😅
"Recipe bloggers say AI-generated summaries and recipes are distorting how people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses and potentially ruining holiday dinners"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"Recipe bloggers say AI-generated summaries and recipes are distorting how people find cooking advice online, damaging their businesses and potentially ruining holiday dinners"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In re #MarkCarney: there are times when it’s appropriate for a #primeminister to act like he’s a businessman. There are also times when it’s appropriate - or even indispensable - for him to act like a #nation #builder.
#Canada
#Canada
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In re #MarkCarney: there are times when it’s appropriate for a #primeminister to act like he’s a businessman. There are also times when it’s appropriate - or even indispensable - for him to act like a #nation #builder.
#Canada
#Canada
“The debacle at #Heritage illustrates the impossibility of abiding by the long-standing intellectual values of #opendebate and #truth-seeking while retaining any influence in a party led by Donald #Trump.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“The debacle at #Heritage illustrates the impossibility of abiding by the long-standing intellectual values of #opendebate and #truth-seeking while retaining any influence in a party led by Donald #Trump.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why should I have to verify that I’m human to unsubscribe from a #newsletter? Don’t #robots have #privacyrights?
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Why should I have to verify that I’m human to unsubscribe from a #newsletter? Don’t #robots have #privacyrights?
‘Trump’s most outrageous innovation was dispensing with the pretense that he needed to provide reasons for his positions. His greatest apostasy was not his rejection of any particular set of ideas, but his categorical rejection of the whole notion of ideas.’
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse
Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Deprive #children of #stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their #actions as in their #words.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Deprive #children of #stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their #actions as in their #words.” - #AlisdairMacIntyre, #AfterVirtue
Another #Pansy, #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25 #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #Fall #Autumn
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Another #Pansy, #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25 #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #Fall #Autumn
#Pansy, #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #Fall #Autumn
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#Pansy, #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #Fall #Autumn
The #AndyWarhol version of B-ing and Time.
Andy Warhol
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
"I wake up and call B.
B is anybody who helps me kill time.
B is anybody and I am nobody.
B and I."
#HowBooksBegin
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
"I wake up and call B.
B is anybody who helps me kill time.
B is anybody and I am nobody.
B and I."
#HowBooksBegin
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The #AndyWarhol version of B-ing and Time.
One more #rose.
#RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
#RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
One more #rose.
#RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
#RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
A not-so-faded beauty at #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A not-so-faded beauty at #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto. Nov 24/25
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky #RoseSky
More fading beauties at #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto.
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
More fading beauties at #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End of #Toronto.
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky
@brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky
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Things almost every culture has in common:
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Things almost every culture has in common:
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
• some sort of dumpling
• history of misogyny
There’s officially a ceasefire in place in the #Toronto #WaroftheRoses, but as has been known to happen in ceasefires, occasional hostilities may still erupt. Here’s a faded beauty from #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End. @brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There’s officially a ceasefire in place in the #Toronto #WaroftheRoses, but as has been known to happen in ceasefires, occasional hostilities may still erupt. Here’s a faded beauty from #RosettaMcClainGardens in the East End. @brainchain.ca #roses #bloomscrolling #flowers #FlowerSky
Bloomberg: $6B has flowed out of global #crypto #exchange-traded products so far in November, the largest monthly withdrawal on record going back to 2018. Even so, #investors are largely staying put. US #Bitcoin #ETF redemptions total only 3% of their $110 billion in assets.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bloomberg: $6B has flowed out of global #crypto #exchange-traded products so far in November, the largest monthly withdrawal on record going back to 2018. Even so, #investors are largely staying put. US #Bitcoin #ETF redemptions total only 3% of their $110 billion in assets.
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Imagine keeping a banger like this in your diary and failing to share it with the world. A different age, really.
May 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Imagine keeping a banger like this in your diary and failing to share it with the world. A different age, really.
1 BMO: #Equitymarkets point to a modestly lower open this morning following yesterday's AI-led rally, while #Treasury #yields are little changed. The 10-year sits just above 4%, near smack in the middle of the two-year range. Pricing for the December #FOMC meeting, however, continues to swing … 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
1 BMO: #Equitymarkets point to a modestly lower open this morning following yesterday's AI-led rally, while #Treasury #yields are little changed. The 10-year sits just above 4%, near smack in the middle of the two-year range. Pricing for the December #FOMC meeting, however, continues to swing … 🧵
“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 24, 2025
U.S.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
“If #Democrats regain power in 2028, which seems increasingly likely given Trump’s cratering popularity, they can’t do another Merrick Garland, repeating their past mistake of letting past lawbreaking go unpunished.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
Democrats will have to repair the damage
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“If #Democrats regain power in 2028, which seems increasingly likely given Trump’s cratering popularity, they can’t do another Merrick Garland, repeating their past mistake of letting past lawbreaking go unpunished.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...