@johnfurlan.bsky.social
Development Caucus Homes NOT Bombs Med/Ed/AI/4All. Anti Mafia Don, thugs; OBBBA; IEEPA; GENIUS; war uniparty; parasitalism; Bitponzi; NGO woke faux left. Pro law; univ, sci; Hockett Spread Fed, NRCDA/ENRPA; cooperate w China on global peace, development
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
Opinion | Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death
The war on public health is a battle to the death.
nyti.ms
December 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
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“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
Opinion | Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death
The MAHA pipe dream is going to hurt MAGA the most.
nyti.ms
December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In an administration known for its erratic adoption and sudden abandonment of policies, Trump has demonstrated an unwavering determination to enhance the fortunes of the rich,” Thomas Edsall writes.
“In an administration known for its erratic adoption and sudden abandonment of policies, Trump has demonstrated an unwavering determination to enhance the fortunes of the rich,” Thomas Edsall writes.
Opinion | The Trump Mind-Set Is Not Complex
Gimme, gimme, gimme. Gimme some more.
nyti.ms
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“In an administration known for its erratic adoption and sudden abandonment of policies, Trump has demonstrated an unwavering determination to enhance the fortunes of the rich,” Thomas Edsall writes.
“In an administration known for its erratic adoption and sudden abandonment of policies, Trump has demonstrated an unwavering determination to enhance the fortunes of the rich,” Thomas Edsall writes.
Does it matter as long as Dems are just as uncool? Dems inflicted on US two terms of Mafia Don. Are they sorry? Has anything changed? At bare minimum, to take them seriously, they need to dump Schumer, de facto agent for a war criminal, and renounce woke bs that helped elect Trump. Fool me once, etc
“A year ago, we kept hearing that Trump was cool. Is anyone saying that now?” the columnist Ezra Klein writes.
Opinion | The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead
What will come in its wake?
nyti.ms
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Does it matter as long as Dems are just as uncool? Dems inflicted on US two terms of Mafia Don. Are they sorry? Has anything changed? At bare minimum, to take them seriously, they need to dump Schumer, de facto agent for a war criminal, and renounce woke bs that helped elect Trump. Fool me once, etc
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Here is the story that inspired this second investigation
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here is the story that inspired this second investigation
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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The Biden administration repeatedly rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return President Trump to the White House, a New York Times examination found. Former officials in his administration said that Biden and his confidants made two crucial errors.
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
nyti.ms
December 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Biden administration repeatedly rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return President Trump to the White House, a New York Times examination found. Former officials in his administration said that Biden and his confidants made two crucial errors.
From my post: "I hoped hundreds of videos of Mafia Don's illegal masked thugs racial profiling Latinos, manhandling people, etc would have provoked much larger protests by woke Gens Y/Z, similar to Floyd video in 2020...So why not?" x.com/jfurlan14/st...
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
From my post: "I hoped hundreds of videos of Mafia Don's illegal masked thugs racial profiling Latinos, manhandling people, etc would have provoked much larger protests by woke Gens Y/Z, similar to Floyd video in 2020...So why not?" x.com/jfurlan14/st...
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In a cost-of-living crisis, the question for policymakers “isn’t whether to intervene, but how to do so in a way that delivers relief today without creating new problems tomorrow,” Neale Mahoney and Bharat Ramamurti write.
Opinion | Economists Hate This Idea. It Could Be a Way Out of the Affordability Crisis.
Voters are demanding short-term price relief, and temporary price controls may be the only viable way to provide it
nyti.ms
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In a cost-of-living crisis, the question for policymakers “isn’t whether to intervene, but how to do so in a way that delivers relief today without creating new problems tomorrow,” Neale Mahoney and Bharat Ramamurti write.
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The excesses of America’s most powerful people “would end sooner if more Americans saw what Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are doing: ushering in a new era of brazenness that will persist as long as people buy the hype and cheer the flexes,” William Cohan writes.
Opinion | Elon Musk Can’t Possibly Deserve His $1 Trillion Payday
In the face of shareholders, corporate boards and even judges, Tesla’s chief executive shows what he can get away with.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The excesses of America’s most powerful people “would end sooner if more Americans saw what Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are doing: ushering in a new era of brazenness that will persist as long as people buy the hype and cheer the flexes,” William Cohan writes.
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“Project 2025 makes very clear that the administration intends to capture higher education for ideological purposes,” Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan, says in a round table discussion with two other leaders of American universities.
Opinion | ‘We Need to Be Worried’: Three University Leaders on the Fate of Higher Education in the Trump Era
The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“Project 2025 makes very clear that the administration intends to capture higher education for ideological purposes,” Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan, says in a round table discussion with two other leaders of American universities.
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“If historians someday try to identify exactly when China became America’s geopolitical equal, they might point to the outcome of Mr. Trump’s ill-considered trade war,” Rush Doshi writes.
Opinion | Trump’s Trade War Showed That China Can Stand Up to America
His ill-conceived tariff war exposed U.S. vulnerabilities, strengthened China’s leverage and undermined America at a pivotal time.
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“If historians someday try to identify exactly when China became America’s geopolitical equal, they might point to the outcome of Mr. Trump’s ill-considered trade war,” Rush Doshi writes.
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Just out: New G20 report led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
warns of an “Inequality Emergency.”
It calls for an International Panel on Inequality as global shocks deepen poverty and widen wealth gaps.
Read report here: ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
#Inequality #G20
warns of an “Inequality Emergency.”
It calls for an International Panel on Inequality as global shocks deepen poverty and widen wealth gaps.
Read report here: ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
#Inequality #G20
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just out: New G20 report led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
warns of an “Inequality Emergency.”
It calls for an International Panel on Inequality as global shocks deepen poverty and widen wealth gaps.
Read report here: ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
#Inequality #G20
warns of an “Inequality Emergency.”
It calls for an International Panel on Inequality as global shocks deepen poverty and widen wealth gaps.
Read report here: ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
#Inequality #G20
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It was a great honor today to present to @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social the report of the G20's Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality.
Inequality is a choice. We can choose to remedy it.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/0s-aJou...
Inequality is a choice. We can choose to remedy it.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/0s-aJou...
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA RECEIVES REPORT OF G20 TASK TEAM ON INEQUALITY
YouTube video by The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It was a great honor today to present to @cyrilramaphosabsky.bsky.social the report of the G20's Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality.
Inequality is a choice. We can choose to remedy it.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/0s-aJou...
Inequality is a choice. We can choose to remedy it.
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/0s-aJou...
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🔴 Over 500 economists, including WIL co-director @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, call on world leaders to set up an International Panel on Inequality, as recommended by the Extraordinary Committee's report to the #G20, led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🔴 Over 500 economists, including WIL co-director @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, call on world leaders to set up an International Panel on Inequality, as recommended by the Extraordinary Committee's report to the #G20, led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
🔗Letter www.equals.ink/p/sign-on-le...
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The Trump regime wants us to be afraid, but we’re on track to make Saturday the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history. There are No Kings events almost everywhere — join us to make it clear we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Trump regime wants us to be afraid, but we’re on track to make Saturday the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history. There are No Kings events almost everywhere — join us to make it clear we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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President Donald Trump, Republican officials, and their right-wing media allies have laid the groundwork for a broadbased attack on core progressive and Democratic Party institutions in response to Saturday’s planned nationwide “No Kings” protests. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent
www.mediamatters.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
President Donald Trump, Republican officials, and their right-wing media allies have laid the groundwork for a broadbased attack on core progressive and Democratic Party institutions in response to Saturday’s planned nationwide “No Kings” protests. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Mafia Don comes across here as super sensitive snowflake who can't stand even mildest criticism, wants to cancel those he dislikes. Similar to woke faux left cancel culture for years before peak woke in 2021. The huge difference being, of course, that Trump is using the enormous power of the state.
News Analysis: For President Trump, a wide-ranging crackdown on mainstream media institutions and political opponents is not about hate speech, but about speech that he hates — namely, speech that is critical of him and his administration. nyti.ms/3VsCyO4
September 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Mafia Don comes across here as super sensitive snowflake who can't stand even mildest criticism, wants to cancel those he dislikes. Similar to woke faux left cancel culture for years before peak woke in 2021. The huge difference being, of course, that Trump is using the enormous power of the state.
The stock market is not the home team, we should all be rooting for the AI bubble to burst cepr.net/publications...
Why the Bursting of the AI Bubble Would Be Good for the Economy
The AI stock bubble’s collapse may trigger a recession, but it could also create room for policies that boost jobs and wages.
cepr.net
September 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea.
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
Is China an Engineering or Developmental State?
Breakneck is excellent, but could use a touch more developmental thinking.
www.valueadded.tech
September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea.
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
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In this new piece, I explain why focusing only on red tape and proceduralism (as the Abundance thesis does) misses the bigger story about the American Political Economy and fails to explain the staggering build out of data centers across the country.
www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...
www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...
America can still build (data centers)
The Abundance thesis is that America can't build anymore, so how do we explain the surge of data center construction across the country?
www.valueadded.tech
September 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In this new piece, I explain why focusing only on red tape and proceduralism (as the Abundance thesis does) misses the bigger story about the American Political Economy and fails to explain the staggering build out of data centers across the country.
www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...
www.valueadded.tech/p/america-ca...
In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea.
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
Is China an Engineering or Developmental State?
Breakneck is excellent, but could use a touch more developmental thinking.
www.valueadded.tech
September 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Just published a reintroduction to my newsletter, highlighting some of the key cross-cutting themes that tie my interests together.
www.valueadded.tech/p/re-introdu...
www.valueadded.tech/p/re-introdu...
Re-introducing Value Added
And a short guide to some of the key themes of this newsletter.
www.valueadded.tech
August 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Just published a reintroduction to my newsletter, highlighting some of the key cross-cutting themes that tie my interests together.
www.valueadded.tech/p/re-introdu...
www.valueadded.tech/p/re-introdu...
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Breaking News: In a win for Harvard University, a judge said that the government broke the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds.
Judge Issues Ruling Helpful to Harvard in Case Against Trump
Harvard had sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore billions in research funds that the government canceled this spring.
nyti.ms
September 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Breaking News: In a win for Harvard University, a judge said that the government broke the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” nine former CDC directors write in a guest essay.
“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” nine former CDC directors write in a guest essay.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
Agency leaders sound the alarm.
nyti.ms
September 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” nine former CDC directors write in a guest essay.
“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” nine former CDC directors write in a guest essay.
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“There is bipartisan agreement in the United States that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine — and also, apparently, a bipartisan consensus to do little about it,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.
Opinion | In Sudan, No One Doubts That This Is Genocide
Both the Biden and Trump administrations have described Sudan as suffering genocide. And no one’s done much about it.
nyti.ms
August 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“There is bipartisan agreement in the United States that Sudan is suffering both genocide and famine — and also, apparently, a bipartisan consensus to do little about it,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.