@kenduda.bsky.social
I guess it's hard to be sure of the positive. I googled Jesse Singal, and it certainly appears he's using his real name. With names like "catturd" and "peepeesniffer", I'd say one can be pretty sure of the negative.
December 20, 2024 at 4:36 PM
I guess it's hard to be sure of the positive. I googled Jesse Singal, and it certainly appears he's using his real name. With names like "catturd" and "peepeesniffer", I'd say one can be pretty sure of the negative.
Update: @jessesingal.com and @ducksfortheduckgod.bsky.social helped me see that I was wrong in calling anonymous posters cowardly. Fear of harassment or worse is justified, not cowardly. It's just not the world I want to live in. So, whether I'm brave or just foolish, here I am. Wish me luck.
December 20, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Update: @jessesingal.com and @ducksfortheduckgod.bsky.social helped me see that I was wrong in calling anonymous posters cowardly. Fear of harassment or worse is justified, not cowardly. It's just not the world I want to live in. So, whether I'm brave or just foolish, here I am. Wish me luck.
Good post. I know you and Jesse have the facts and analysis right. Somehow, for me, there is something more at stake. I don't want to live in a world where good people have to hide behind pseudonyms to avoid being harassed by the trolls. I apologize if I called you cowardly.
December 20, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Good post. I know you and Jesse have the facts and analysis right. Somehow, for me, there is something more at stake. I don't want to live in a world where good people have to hide behind pseudonyms to avoid being harassed by the trolls. I apologize if I called you cowardly.
Haha I sure hope you aren't using your real name!
December 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Haha I sure hope you aren't using your real name!
Somehow, this true observation connects to the idea that people who fight for our country are "suckers and losers" because "what's in it for them?" Sometimes, the right thing to do is the right thing to do, and the risk/cost here is nothing compared to military service.
December 20, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Somehow, this true observation connects to the idea that people who fight for our country are "suckers and losers" because "what's in it for them?" Sometimes, the right thing to do is the right thing to do, and the risk/cost here is nothing compared to military service.
Yeah. You are smarter than me. 😥
December 20, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Yeah. You are smarter than me. 😥
If losing your power and career isn't enough to shut you up, then maybe the prospect of spending 10 years fighting malicious prosecution will do it, and who knows, with the number of bad judges we have, maybe there will even be a conviction. Juries aren't perfect.
December 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
If losing your power and career isn't enough to shut you up, then maybe the prospect of spending 10 years fighting malicious prosecution will do it, and who knows, with the number of bad judges we have, maybe there will even be a conviction. Juries aren't perfect.
I don't expect the Cheneys to capitulate, but that's not the point. The point is to silence as many other prominent people as possible.
December 20, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I don't expect the Cheneys to capitulate, but that's not the point. The point is to silence as many other prominent people as possible.
Why? Don't you think making his prominent vocal critics' lives as difficult as he can will reduce public criticism by prominent people? Look what his willingness to harm the other business interests of media company owners is doing to the media. How does prosecuting Liz go wrong for him?
December 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Why? Don't you think making his prominent vocal critics' lives as difficult as he can will reduce public criticism by prominent people? Look what his willingness to harm the other business interests of media company owners is doing to the media. How does prosecuting Liz go wrong for him?
I agree it's cowardly to hide behind a fake name. Using your real name makes you accountable for the things you say, raising the level of discourse, which otherwise seems to devolve to nonsense narrative, childish insults, and threats that manage to be simultaneously idiotic and menacing.
December 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
I agree it's cowardly to hide behind a fake name. Using your real name makes you accountable for the things you say, raising the level of discourse, which otherwise seems to devolve to nonsense narrative, childish insults, and threats that manage to be simultaneously idiotic and menacing.
I am very interested in finding an organization promoting high integrity candidates in primary elections in polarized states. Please DM me or reply if you know of any.
December 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM
I am very interested in finding an organization promoting high integrity candidates in primary elections in polarized states. Please DM me or reply if you know of any.
We should be willing to pay almost any amount for good governance.
Unfortunately, paying more will not get us that. "Total bans on most private investment" only make it marginally harder for the grifters to grift. Bad people will still want to get elected. No easy answers, I'm afraid.
Unfortunately, paying more will not get us that. "Total bans on most private investment" only make it marginally harder for the grifters to grift. Bad people will still want to get elected. No easy answers, I'm afraid.
December 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
We should be willing to pay almost any amount for good governance.
Unfortunately, paying more will not get us that. "Total bans on most private investment" only make it marginally harder for the grifters to grift. Bad people will still want to get elected. No easy answers, I'm afraid.
Unfortunately, paying more will not get us that. "Total bans on most private investment" only make it marginally harder for the grifters to grift. Bad people will still want to get elected. No easy answers, I'm afraid.
We know they aren't serious, but the debt ceiling is, in fact, a bad mechanism. Could you please suspend it, ideally forever? If you want to cut spending, cut spending; authorizing spending and then failing to authorize the financing of that spending is just bad management.
December 20, 2024 at 9:40 AM
We know they aren't serious, but the debt ceiling is, in fact, a bad mechanism. Could you please suspend it, ideally forever? If you want to cut spending, cut spending; authorizing spending and then failing to authorize the financing of that spending is just bad management.
This graph nicely illustrates @kevinerdmann.bsky.social 's point that there was no overbuilding in 2006-8. The standard story is just wrong! We were simply maintaining existing stock. The construction collapse since 2008 has always been the actual problem.
December 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM
This graph nicely illustrates @kevinerdmann.bsky.social 's point that there was no overbuilding in 2006-8. The standard story is just wrong! We were simply maintaining existing stock. The construction collapse since 2008 has always been the actual problem.
One sad part of this is the idea that "the collective establishment losing their minds" is a plus. Where does this hate come from? Maybe, if a vast majority of people who know and care about our system agree something is a bad idea, that's because it's a bad idea.
December 19, 2024 at 9:55 PM
One sad part of this is the idea that "the collective establishment losing their minds" is a plus. Where does this hate come from? Maybe, if a vast majority of people who know and care about our system agree something is a bad idea, that's because it's a bad idea.
It's so sad that our media is unable to serve the public interest --- not for lack of great people in the media, but from a fundamental disconnect between the mission and the business model.
December 19, 2024 at 9:44 PM
It's so sad that our media is unable to serve the public interest --- not for lack of great people in the media, but from a fundamental disconnect between the mission and the business model.
"Mesmerizingly disastrous" captures it exactly. Four separate cases, each with mountains of evidence. And yet: only one conviction --- and zero sentences. How is this even possible?
December 19, 2024 at 9:26 PM
"Mesmerizingly disastrous" captures it exactly. Four separate cases, each with mountains of evidence. And yet: only one conviction --- and zero sentences. How is this even possible?
Of course Smoot-Hawley made things worse --- but the stock market behavior was a warning, not a cause, of the Great Depression.
December 19, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Of course Smoot-Hawley made things worse --- but the stock market behavior was a warning, not a cause, of the Great Depression.
Good grief no, the Great Depression was caused by a money supply crunch (due to the dollar being pegged to gold, and gold being hoarded by other countries' central banks) along with sticky prices. How could financial asset market price swings possibly cause a depression? g.co/kgs/kSQyidy
The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression Scott Sumner - Google Search
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December 19, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Good grief no, the Great Depression was caused by a money supply crunch (due to the dollar being pegged to gold, and gold being hoarded by other countries' central banks) along with sticky prices. How could financial asset market price swings possibly cause a depression? g.co/kgs/kSQyidy
I know right? The president in the US actually has little influence on inflation even in the US, because inflation occurs when the money supply exceeds money demand, and the money supply is completely controlled by the Fed, and the Fed has independence from the chief executive.
December 19, 2024 at 12:02 PM
I know right? The president in the US actually has little influence on inflation even in the US, because inflation occurs when the money supply exceeds money demand, and the money supply is completely controlled by the Fed, and the Fed has independence from the chief executive.
All I've read is some of Singal's Bluesky posts, and nothing I've seen seems objectionable. Are people calling for moderating him doing so purely based on what he's written elsewhere? Do they think that anyone who says anything objectionable anywhere should be silenced forever everywhere?
December 19, 2024 at 11:59 AM
All I've read is some of Singal's Bluesky posts, and nothing I've seen seems objectionable. Are people calling for moderating him doing so purely based on what he's written elsewhere? Do they think that anyone who says anything objectionable anywhere should be silenced forever everywhere?
Except you didn't even save 10 cents. You *wanted* to pay less for eggs, and ignored the fact that the president does not set the price of eggs.
December 19, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Except you didn't even save 10 cents. You *wanted* to pay less for eggs, and ignored the fact that the president does not set the price of eggs.
Scott, please do something about CEQA. It contains good ideas but enforcement through private lawsuits is a disaster. Should be administrative not judicial.
December 19, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Scott, please do something about CEQA. It contains good ideas but enforcement through private lawsuits is a disaster. Should be administrative not judicial.