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Yakov Feygin

@buddyyakov.bsky.social

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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

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EconReporter @econreporter.bsky.social · 1h

"...best seen as an example of the general theory of the second best: once one thing is distorted in an economy, you don’t get the best achievable result by keeping everything else undistorted but by distorting other things to compensate."

Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 3h

Can you be a monetary dove in a trade war? on.ft.com/42zD0y5

How to be a macroeconomic dove in Trump’s trade war

[FREE TO READ] The US president is not making it easy, but it’s possible to call for rate cuts with integrity

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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 23h

It would be a mistake to paint the administration as a genius supervillains simply because they are executing on plans to do bad things. They are imbeciles carrying out orders from a reactionary old man whose brain is goo

YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 1d

They really flew out the secretary of DHS out to Portland so they could show her how they’re all set up to sniper a guy in a chicken costume

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh this is good

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

Some of it is weird stuff like PIMCO held leases.

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that’s right imo. I also think that the ai data center stuff is pretty well wrapped up in its own buckets and leases.

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

And can your new growth service your old commitments?

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah but who has the pricing power ‘ then?

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah but if the big guys cut back spend that’s a problem. The debt assumes certain projected cash flow.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

More like 2000 then 2008 because there won’t be a direct path to every HH but we never really dug out of 2000 either.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

That’s mostly right but there is quite a bit of debt and finance leasing out there supporting the capex. Should be ok if there’s enough core profits to service but these things can get out of hand.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 1d

Cool cool

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 3d

patriotic americans pioneered the amphibious invasion so patriotic amphibians could repel illegal invasions

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

Without a trace of irony I say that we need to get @interfluidity.com on the next Democratic president’s trade brain trust www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 4d

(Or at least I think a lot of times radicals are correct but need to figure out how to write like Leo Strauss thought Maimonides wrote)

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 4d

Like, what are we doing here? What do you think you are doing? How do you think you are getting there? How do your actions reflect on our besieged profession? Did you stop and think about what you were posting? Does provocation matter more than effective interpretation?

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 4d

Joe, I hate to say it but stuff like this has also occasionally really led me to question the utility of our academic enterprise. If somehow someone can make it to an TT job teaching at an R1 but still not parse the difference between "fascist dictatorship" and "contested citizenship republic"...

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 4d

Praxis

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5d

A people’s militia you say?

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5d

Guy would defund the police an replace them with something worse.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5d

Silwa is maybe the one example of Republican who can be converted to socialism purely due to anti elitism.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

it's funny how Silwa hates Cuomo more than Mamdani

Josh Billinson (@jbillinson)
Curtis Sliwa: “Anybody who knows the history of New York City knows we’ve had socialists in elected office.”

“Somehow life went on … I don’t fear socialists. I don’t fear communists. I say, leave it to the people.”

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5d

Silwa unleashes a special move called swarm of cats.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5d

he’s dead as hell

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5d

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale.

If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5d

Closer to it than you imagine lol

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5d

Even moved to the train stop I grew up by, which tbh feels weird.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5d

Officially a Brooklyn resident again!

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