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Krugman has also weighed in on this; unfortunately the pieces are paywalled, and I won't pay Substack *anything*. I hope eventually the pieces become more widely available. (One of the worst things about the current internet regime is the widespread reemergence of private libraries.)
Affordability, Part III
What should a serious policy agenda include?
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Krugman has also weighed in on this; unfortunately the pieces are paywalled, and I won't pay Substack *anything*. I hope eventually the pieces become more widely available. (One of the worst things about the current internet regime is the widespread reemergence of private libraries.)
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involves a certain amount of forward-looking projection, not just "can I afford this?" but "will I be able to keep this up?" and people's understanding of the economy enters into this in complicated ways. Banker Daniel Davies discusses this at some length.
ways of vibing
treatments and responses in the real world
backofmind.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
involves a certain amount of forward-looking projection, not just "can I afford this?" but "will I be able to keep this up?" and people's understanding of the economy enters into this in complicated ways. Banker Daniel Davies discusses this at some length.
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I have read the piece; it's persuasive and I think the conclusion may be in general valid, but there are real problems with the reasoning in the article.
I also think affordability is more complicated than you make it except for people who are right on the edge. The idea of affordability always
I also think affordability is more complicated than you make it except for people who are right on the edge. The idea of affordability always
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I have read the piece; it's persuasive and I think the conclusion may be in general valid, but there are real problems with the reasoning in the article.
I also think affordability is more complicated than you make it except for people who are right on the edge. The idea of affordability always
I also think affordability is more complicated than you make it except for people who are right on the edge. The idea of affordability always
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saying the economy was bad while their personal income was rising and they were spending.
At the same time, it is true that people are on the average are less well off than their parents, shelter costs have outstripped inflation, and disparities of wealth have grown.
At the same time, it is true that people are on the average are less well off than their parents, shelter costs have outstripped inflation, and disparities of wealth have grown.
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
saying the economy was bad while their personal income was rising and they were spending.
At the same time, it is true that people are on the average are less well off than their parents, shelter costs have outstripped inflation, and disparities of wealth have grown.
At the same time, it is true that people are on the average are less well off than their parents, shelter costs have outstripped inflation, and disparities of wealth have grown.
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That particular piece has been critiqued fairly heavily by knowledgeable economists. I'm also more than a little bit cynical of the perception of affordability, which seems to me heavily influenced by things that have nothing to do with actual affordability. Last year we had people
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
That particular piece has been critiqued fairly heavily by knowledgeable economists. I'm also more than a little bit cynical of the perception of affordability, which seems to me heavily influenced by things that have nothing to do with actual affordability. Last year we had people
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We all saw the headline, but the actual letter is great, too. If it’s actually from a Republican, welcome to the resistance, Bruce Carnes. If it’s from one of us, well done.
Either way, I will be referring to the “dormant bigotry virus” and “moral herpes virus,” that’s very good.
Either way, I will be referring to the “dormant bigotry virus” and “moral herpes virus,” that’s very good.
December 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We all saw the headline, but the actual letter is great, too. If it’s actually from a Republican, welcome to the resistance, Bruce Carnes. If it’s from one of us, well done.
Either way, I will be referring to the “dormant bigotry virus” and “moral herpes virus,” that’s very good.
Either way, I will be referring to the “dormant bigotry virus” and “moral herpes virus,” that’s very good.
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Damn. When it started showing up in Apple News, which was frankly convenient for me personally, I knew it was bad for them.
They didn’t even try to retain my subscription when I canceled! It was wild!
I paid $29 for a new annual one during 4th of July with a different email. I like retropolis.
They didn’t even try to retain my subscription when I canceled! It was wild!
I paid $29 for a new annual one during 4th of July with a different email. I like retropolis.
December 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Damn. When it started showing up in Apple News, which was frankly convenient for me personally, I knew it was bad for them.
They didn’t even try to retain my subscription when I canceled! It was wild!
I paid $29 for a new annual one during 4th of July with a different email. I like retropolis.
They didn’t even try to retain my subscription when I canceled! It was wild!
I paid $29 for a new annual one during 4th of July with a different email. I like retropolis.
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They‘ve gone from 250,000 subscribers to 97,000 subscribers in 5 years so —not that many people it seems
December 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They‘ve gone from 250,000 subscribers to 97,000 subscribers in 5 years so —not that many people it seems
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I'm totally on the fence on whether or not this person is for real—yet so many of them are—and I'm stealing those metaphors no matter what
December 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'm totally on the fence on whether or not this person is for real—yet so many of them are—and I'm stealing those metaphors no matter what
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The Washington Post, everyone
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Washington Post, everyone
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Wild that this is happening at the same time that the Popularist crowd has decided to declare a jihad against any kind of climate policy.
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Wild that this is happening at the same time that the Popularist crowd has decided to declare a jihad against any kind of climate policy.
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*extAnt governments (my phone's autocorrect hates me today)
December 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
*extAnt governments (my phone's autocorrect hates me today)
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It's because we were expected to do it for a theoretical Marxist uprising, not extent democratic governments. It's part and parcel of the mindset that obsesses over the evils of western imperialism without realizing that all of the alternatives on offer are other, even worse, imperialisms.
December 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's because we were expected to do it for a theoretical Marxist uprising, not extent democratic governments. It's part and parcel of the mindset that obsesses over the evils of western imperialism without realizing that all of the alternatives on offer are other, even worse, imperialisms.
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The current state of western leftism is basically indistinguishable from the couple years when the Nazi-Soviet Alliance was in effect. But somehow dumber actually because at least back in the day the USSR had a far-left ideology, unlike today’s Russia which is a dystopian crony capitalist hellhole.
December 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The current state of western leftism is basically indistinguishable from the couple years when the Nazi-Soviet Alliance was in effect. But somehow dumber actually because at least back in the day the USSR had a far-left ideology, unlike today’s Russia which is a dystopian crony capitalist hellhole.
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sorry but freedom is good and occasionally it needs defending. sorry that libs are waking up to this, but also: not sorry
December 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
sorry but freedom is good and occasionally it needs defending. sorry that libs are waking up to this, but also: not sorry
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fascinating to me how dead-end leftists are starting to criticize this image as "blue maga" "democrats just want to be fascists"
leftists spent decades beating on libs "you weaklings won't even choose your own side in a fight! why don't you [guillotine meme]! [guillotine meme]!"
lmao
leftists spent decades beating on libs "you weaklings won't even choose your own side in a fight! why don't you [guillotine meme]! [guillotine meme]!"
lmao
December 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
fascinating to me how dead-end leftists are starting to criticize this image as "blue maga" "democrats just want to be fascists"
leftists spent decades beating on libs "you weaklings won't even choose your own side in a fight! why don't you [guillotine meme]! [guillotine meme]!"
lmao
leftists spent decades beating on libs "you weaklings won't even choose your own side in a fight! why don't you [guillotine meme]! [guillotine meme]!"
lmao
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"no no, we didn't mean fight back like *that*!"
fascinating to me how dead-end leftists are starting to criticize this image as "blue maga" "democrats just want to be fascists"
leftists spent decades beating on libs "you weaklings won't even choose your own side in a fight! why don't you [guillotine meme]! [guillotine meme]!"
lmao
leftists spent decades beating on libs "you weaklings won't even choose your own side in a fight! why don't you [guillotine meme]! [guillotine meme]!"
lmao
December 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"no no, we didn't mean fight back like *that*!"
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Three people without speaking roles in Wake Up Dead Man - the single mother verbally abused in the sermon, one of the gay couple undergoing the same, and the gone-away wife of Renner's character - are all British actors.
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Three people without speaking roles in Wake Up Dead Man - the single mother verbally abused in the sermon, one of the gay couple undergoing the same, and the gone-away wife of Renner's character - are all British actors.
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this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
this is a difference you see between more "traditional" detective stories (holmes, poirot etc), where the dapper detective is more removed from the action itself, and noir and hardboiled detective fiction, where the troubled, traumatized, alcoholic detective shapes and is shaped by the plot
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Hero, this is the guy all those Americans with their guns claim they'll be during a mass shooting, but never are. This man actually disarmed the mass shooting terrorist loser while being himself unarmed
Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
Bless The Muslim Man Who Disarmed a Terrorist Shooter in Australia
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hero, this is the guy all those Americans with their guns claim they'll be during a mass shooting, but never are. This man actually disarmed the mass shooting terrorist loser while being himself unarmed
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Shaping the conversation towards your strong issues is one part of it, but seizing opportunities to weaken the other side is another part of it. Maybe voters will never prefer Dems to Republicans on immigration, but the more they hate how Republicans do it, the better the Dems look by comparison.
December 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Shaping the conversation towards your strong issues is one part of it, but seizing opportunities to weaken the other side is another part of it. Maybe voters will never prefer Dems to Republicans on immigration, but the more they hate how Republicans do it, the better the Dems look by comparison.
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Also weakness is not just favorability, but opportunities to change favorability. If my opponent has good favorables on an issue, it’s good to raise the salience of an aspect of that issue that will hurt them.
December 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Also weakness is not just favorability, but opportunities to change favorability. If my opponent has good favorables on an issue, it’s good to raise the salience of an aspect of that issue that will hurt them.
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One two step that I particularly hate is how a certain of centrists is like "oh during a campaign you should focus on where you're strongest and avoid where you're weakest" like it's revolution but then also apply that to off cycle behavior
This is also why you can't just run an election on healthcare costs and hope they don't bring up immigration. You have to fight them on immigration because they inject this Nazi shit into everything.
The White House getting in the Christmas spirit by blaming the most vulnerable members of society for the suffering Trump is responsible for.
Jesus would have hated these people.
Jesus would have hated these people.
December 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
One two step that I particularly hate is how a certain of centrists is like "oh during a campaign you should focus on where you're strongest and avoid where you're weakest" like it's revolution but then also apply that to off cycle behavior
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Democrats should attack republicans where they are strong, and continue attacking, so that when it comes to election season they are weaker across the board
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Democrats should attack republicans where they are strong, and continue attacking, so that when it comes to election season they are weaker across the board
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When you're actually in election season, yeah you gotta play the card you're dealt but the vast amount of time between those fixed points are when you really ought to be focused on reshaping the political terrain, bit by bit, to your advantage
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
When you're actually in election season, yeah you gotta play the card you're dealt but the vast amount of time between those fixed points are when you really ought to be focused on reshaping the political terrain, bit by bit, to your advantage