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Outstanding reflections on the Gaza genocide:
"How were the horrors of Gaza possible? Quite simply, because those who tried to stop or expose them quickly discovered that our political systems were committed to the genocide and there simply was no way to give voice or power to a different politics."
I wrote a personal essay on what it has meant for me witnessing events in Gaza since October 2023. I would be grateful if you help spread it. These were painful, disturbing conclusions to reach. But inescapable…
December 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
WW2 ended with some type of negotiation?
Until this moment, I had always assumed JD Vance was a fairly well-educated guy.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Bessent's anger at Yellen's issuance strategy lasting precisely until he got the brief from the staff over what changing course would cost them remains a favorite B-plot of mine.
July 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Brilliant!
June 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Wonderful book!
Celebrating the 4th anniversary of Cambridge University Press 800p textbook 'Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy'. In days to come, I'll share cool 4 new features of the ecosystem.
#1 All slides available freely!
gabors-data-analysis.com/chapter-deta...
#EconSky #data #econometrics
June 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Celebrating the 4th anniversary of Cambridge University Press 800p textbook 'Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy'. In days to come, I'll share cool 4 new features of the ecosystem.
#1 All slides available freely!
gabors-data-analysis.com/chapter-deta...
#EconSky #data #econometrics
June 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
From Bloomberg
Trump will do anything to prove he’s not chicken. Brace for the TACO impact, says @timobrien.bsky.social 🎥
May 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What happens when a hegemon falls?
economist.com/finance-and-...
from The Economist
What happens when a hegemon falls?
Why economists are turning to a 50-year-old book on the Depression
economist.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Here's a graph showing the 365-day running average for the number of standard deviations of the global mean surface temperature from the 1941-1970 mean.

The planet is currently running 8.49σ above the 1941-1970 mean. The chances of this happening at random are about 1-in-42,735,000,000,000,000.
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM