jcurciabarea
@jcurciabarea.bsky.social
politics, economics, history, and all that
work in sovereign credit, formerly senate
work in sovereign credit, formerly senate
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It's almost as if making key political and cultural institutions dependent on the erratic largesse of a handful of oligarchs means that democracy dies in darkness
But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
It's almost as if making key political and cultural institutions dependent on the erratic largesse of a handful of oligarchs means that democracy dies in darkness
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Japanese TV commercials for:
Bomberman Land (PSX/Dec 2000)
Bomberman Kart (PS2/Dec 2001)
Bomberman Land (PSX/Dec 2000)
Bomberman Kart (PS2/Dec 2001)
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Japanese TV commercials for:
Bomberman Land (PSX/Dec 2000)
Bomberman Kart (PS2/Dec 2001)
Bomberman Land (PSX/Dec 2000)
Bomberman Kart (PS2/Dec 2001)
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Alcaraz d. Djokovic 2-6 6-2 6-3 7-5
Carlos becomes the youngest man in history to complete the Career Grand Slam
He is also the first player to EVER beat Novak in an Australian Open final
✅7th Slam
✅1st AO title
22 years old
What a player he’s becoming
What a career we’re witnessing
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Carlos becomes the youngest man in history to complete the Career Grand Slam
He is also the first player to EVER beat Novak in an Australian Open final
✅7th Slam
✅1st AO title
22 years old
What a player he’s becoming
What a career we’re witnessing
🇪🇸
February 1, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Alcaraz d. Djokovic 2-6 6-2 6-3 7-5
Carlos becomes the youngest man in history to complete the Career Grand Slam
He is also the first player to EVER beat Novak in an Australian Open final
✅7th Slam
✅1st AO title
22 years old
What a player he’s becoming
What a career we’re witnessing
🇪🇸
Carlos becomes the youngest man in history to complete the Career Grand Slam
He is also the first player to EVER beat Novak in an Australian Open final
✅7th Slam
✅1st AO title
22 years old
What a player he’s becoming
What a career we’re witnessing
🇪🇸
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Did a pod with the Drilled folks on carbon dominance as what unites US domestic and foreign policy: drilled.media/news/anti-re...
Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere
The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.
drilled.media
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Did a pod with the Drilled folks on carbon dominance as what unites US domestic and foreign policy: drilled.media/news/anti-re...
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Carlos Alcaraz dethrones Jannik Sinner as the new World No. 1
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September 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Carlos Alcaraz dethrones Jannik Sinner as the new World No. 1
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Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
September 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
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Gego, Drawing without Paper 85/19, 1985 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137246
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137246
September 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Gego, Drawing without Paper 85/19, 1985 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137246
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137246
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This chart, illustrating how central bank direct holdings of gold now exceed those of U.S. Treasuries for the first time in some thirty years, is attracting significant attention.
#gold #centralbanks #markets #bonds
#gold #centralbanks #markets #bonds
August 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This chart, illustrating how central bank direct holdings of gold now exceed those of U.S. Treasuries for the first time in some thirty years, is attracting significant attention.
#gold #centralbanks #markets #bonds
#gold #centralbanks #markets #bonds
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spending the afternoon at a sunflower farm
August 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
spending the afternoon at a sunflower farm
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Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
The Long Twilight of Central Bankism
Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution. Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
jacobin.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
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Jannik Sinner on how his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz has changed:
‘When we were very, very young, it was a match where you just go on court & just hit. Now we have to prepare tactically, emotionally, & mentally’
(via US Open Press)
‘When we were very, very young, it was a match where you just go on court & just hit. Now we have to prepare tactically, emotionally, & mentally’
(via US Open Press)
August 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Jannik Sinner on how his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz has changed:
‘When we were very, very young, it was a match where you just go on court & just hit. Now we have to prepare tactically, emotionally, & mentally’
(via US Open Press)
‘When we were very, very young, it was a match where you just go on court & just hit. Now we have to prepare tactically, emotionally, & mentally’
(via US Open Press)
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Hey remember when the right was freaking out about the creeping socialism of a municipal grocery store pilot?
August 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hey remember when the right was freaking out about the creeping socialism of a municipal grocery store pilot?
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Aug. 11, 1925: A floating market of watermelons that were harvested from nearby farms, on the Potomac River in Washington.
August 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Aug. 11, 1925: A floating market of watermelons that were harvested from nearby farms, on the Potomac River in Washington.
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A French physician made a big splash a few years ago posting this about the "love" many straight men claim to have for their wives (translated from French):
Source: www.reddit.com/r/breakingmo...
Source: www.reddit.com/r/breakingmo...
August 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
A French physician made a big splash a few years ago posting this about the "love" many straight men claim to have for their wives (translated from French):
Source: www.reddit.com/r/breakingmo...
Source: www.reddit.com/r/breakingmo...
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Something genuinely surprising to me — the unemployment rate for college grads is higher than it was the month Lehman went bankrupt:
August 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Something genuinely surprising to me — the unemployment rate for college grads is higher than it was the month Lehman went bankrupt:
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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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Photo of the Day.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
August 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Photo of the Day.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
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Markets will just love the idea of unreliable govt data.
August 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Markets will just love the idea of unreliable govt data.
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[OC] View of the sky between apartment buildings, Blok 23, Belgrade, Serbia r/brutalism
July 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
[OC] View of the sky between apartment buildings, Blok 23, Belgrade, Serbia r/brutalism
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Ragnar Nurkse: “poor countries are poor because they are poor.” Not a tautology! The lack of local aggregate demand -> underinvestment in physical & human capital, underemployment, weak state revenue, reliance on exports with high price and volume volatility. Rinse and repeat!
Yi Wen explains China's failures & success
"My central thesis is that production or firms emerge in response to market demand, yet the so-called “market” is itself a fndmntl public good that must be created by a development state instead of the “invisible hand"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"My central thesis is that production or firms emerge in response to market demand, yet the so-called “market” is itself a fndmntl public good that must be created by a development state instead of the “invisible hand"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Ragnar Nurkse: “poor countries are poor because they are poor.” Not a tautology! The lack of local aggregate demand -> underinvestment in physical & human capital, underemployment, weak state revenue, reliance on exports with high price and volume volatility. Rinse and repeat!
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It’s Friday. This pleases me.
July 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It’s Friday. This pleases me.
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Great to meet Senator Chris Van Hollen yesterday in DC, who has shown tremendous leadership on fighting Trump’s extreme agenda.
July 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Great to meet Senator Chris Van Hollen yesterday in DC, who has shown tremendous leadership on fighting Trump’s extreme agenda.
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The key point is that formalism is dead. It used to be that if you went through bicameralism and presentment, you had a law, and that meant enforceability regardless of party control. If you ignored it, it was a scandal, and you needed a theory. Tell that to the TikTok ban. (2/7)
July 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The key point is that formalism is dead. It used to be that if you went through bicameralism and presentment, you had a law, and that meant enforceability regardless of party control. If you ignored it, it was a scandal, and you needed a theory. Tell that to the TikTok ban. (2/7)