why am i only just now finding out that common put out the be instrumentals and they are everything i hoped they would be.
September 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
why am i only just now finding out that common put out the be instrumentals and they are everything i hoped they would be.
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From a few years ago, but this from @deanbaker13.bsky.social is exactly right. The problem isn’t China stealing “our” intellectual property, it’s patent owners stealing humanity’s collective knowledge from the rest of us. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
January 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
From a few years ago, but this from @deanbaker13.bsky.social is exactly right. The problem isn’t China stealing “our” intellectual property, it’s patent owners stealing humanity’s collective knowledge from the rest of us. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
it's enough of a nazi salute that everybody recognises it as one but different enough that he can say it isn't... and that's the point.
January 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
it's enough of a nazi salute that everybody recognises it as one but different enough that he can say it isn't... and that's the point.
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James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
November 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
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Either you are a “credible Treasury Secretary who has a real understanding of the global economy,” or you talk to Stephen Moore weekly. The latter is incompatible with the former. But I’m just a small-town international political economy professor, so 🤷♂️
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
November 23, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Either you are a “credible Treasury Secretary who has a real understanding of the global economy,” or you talk to Stephen Moore weekly. The latter is incompatible with the former. But I’m just a small-town international political economy professor, so 🤷♂️
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
what bill hwang did was definitely market manipulation. there was just no exit strategy - which makes it dumb market manipulation but market manipulation nonetheless.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bill Hwang Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison in Archegos Case
Archegos Capital Management founder Bill Hwang was ordered to spend 18 years in prison for fraud and market manipulation tied to the stunning 2021 collapse of his $36 billion family office, capping a ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:33 AM
what bill hwang did was definitely market manipulation. there was just no exit strategy - which makes it dumb market manipulation but market manipulation nonetheless.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
major economies around the world have set deadline for phasing out IC vehicle. toyota is not going to keep manufacturing ICs just for the south african market.
ICs will die and EVs will take over. this is a fact.
www.iol.co.za/news/politic...
ICs will die and EVs will take over. this is a fact.
www.iol.co.za/news/politic...
MPs push back against electric vehicle shift and green energy citing jobs bloodbath
While incentives for electric vehicles and hybrids appear to be on the horizon, Parliamentary Portfolio Committee members are showing a healthy degree of scepticism.
www.iol.co.za
November 21, 2024 at 6:49 AM
major economies around the world have set deadline for phasing out IC vehicle. toyota is not going to keep manufacturing ICs just for the south african market.
ICs will die and EVs will take over. this is a fact.
www.iol.co.za/news/politic...
ICs will die and EVs will take over. this is a fact.
www.iol.co.za/news/politic...
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From the NYT on the slow choice for the treasury pick www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
November 19, 2024 at 10:37 AM
From the NYT on the slow choice for the treasury pick www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...
i agree with @michaelpettis.bsky.social analysis of the causes of the trade imbalance here but i don't think tariffs are an effective solution (tbf, i'm not getting the sense from the reading that he does, either). they didn't work last time.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The unconventional economic theory behind Trump’s sweeping tariff plans
Michael Pettis, a Wall Street veteran who teaches finance in Beijing, says mainstream economists are wrong about trade.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:20 PM
i agree with @michaelpettis.bsky.social analysis of the causes of the trade imbalance here but i don't think tariffs are an effective solution (tbf, i'm not getting the sense from the reading that he does, either). they didn't work last time.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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If you want to say the economy is great and its only media ecosystems that could get someone to think otherwise, you should be forced to read this article from @alexwilliams.bsky.social 3 times in full before attempting that
www.employamerica.org/researchrepo...
www.employamerica.org/researchrepo...
"Real Wages" and Aggregation: A Methodological Mess
“Real wages” are often presented as a neutral measure of the ability of households to buy definite quantities of real goods after adjusting for changes in both prices and wages. In reality, "real wage...
www.employamerica.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:28 AM
If you want to say the economy is great and its only media ecosystems that could get someone to think otherwise, you should be forced to read this article from @alexwilliams.bsky.social 3 times in full before attempting that
www.employamerica.org/researchrepo...
www.employamerica.org/researchrepo...
as a south african, the most interesting information here is that nebraska was the first state to divest from apartheid south africa.
I hadn't realized quite the zeal with which the HP fortune-- recently a key architect of the "beyond neoliberalism" economic policy paradigm that seems to amount to aggressive trade protectionism + military Keynesianism--was built on apartheid. I also didn't remember this fact about Nebraska!!
November 17, 2024 at 4:53 PM
as a south african, the most interesting information here is that nebraska was the first state to divest from apartheid south africa.
they are selling dollars for 45 cents.
November 17, 2024 at 4:37 PM
they are selling dollars for 45 cents.
as good a day as any for grant greene.
November 17, 2024 at 7:14 AM
as good a day as any for grant greene.
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Drives me insane that people are called fiscally responsible for wanting to balance the federal budget, which would be very fiscally irresponsibile
November 15, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Drives me insane that people are called fiscally responsible for wanting to balance the federal budget, which would be very fiscally irresponsibile
i am going to force myself to post more often here. who will actually see my posts? i don't know but honestly, i don't know who sees them in the other thing, either.
November 15, 2024 at 10:10 AM
i am going to force myself to post more often here. who will actually see my posts? i don't know but honestly, i don't know who sees them in the other thing, either.
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If you tax them, they will leave…not so, we find in our new report published today @LSEInequalities There is a stigma to tax migration, even among the rich w/ Victoria Gronwald, Andy Summers and Emma Taylor
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/j...
UK super-rich would be ‘bored to death’ in tax havens – survey
Interviews with top earners reveal many are too attached to UK’s cultural institutions and fear stigma surrounding economic migration
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2024 at 10:23 AM
If you tax them, they will leave…not so, we find in our new report published today @LSEInequalities There is a stigma to tax migration, even among the rich w/ Victoria Gronwald, Andy Summers and Emma Taylor
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/j...
i think it's more accurate to say, "austerity leads to less support for mainstream political parties." this does not necessarily need to be the far-right - but it usually is.
I’m not entirely convinced by the austerity -> far right story, but even if (partly) true, it doesn’t imply that German fiscal transfers should prevent far right. In UK, pain of austerity was concentrated (at least initially) on relatively small numbers of people.
August 30, 2024 at 9:50 PM
i think it's more accurate to say, "austerity leads to less support for mainstream political parties." this does not necessarily need to be the far-right - but it usually is.
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Reminder that Gabriel is a raging Islamophobe who helped ban the abaya in French public schools. His popularity stems directly from how hostile he and France are to Muslims. Bigots are still bigots even when painted in rainbows. Let’s not pinkwash a bigot and his institutionalized Islamophobia
January 9, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Reminder that Gabriel is a raging Islamophobe who helped ban the abaya in French public schools. His popularity stems directly from how hostile he and France are to Muslims. Bigots are still bigots even when painted in rainbows. Let’s not pinkwash a bigot and his institutionalized Islamophobia
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The distance from "Israel should be a state for Jews only" to "a black woman is obviously unfit to be a university president" turns out to be a very short one.
January 3, 2024 at 5:20 AM
The distance from "Israel should be a state for Jews only" to "a black woman is obviously unfit to be a university president" turns out to be a very short one.
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I’m always glad when I encounter a retail employee doing something weird and inappropriate, like wandering away from the cash register mid-sale to play with their dog. Means the labor market is still tight.
October 21, 2023 at 8:18 PM
I’m always glad when I encounter a retail employee doing something weird and inappropriate, like wandering away from the cash register mid-sale to play with their dog. Means the labor market is still tight.
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Some borders are less substantial than others. I took this photo in Norway. The reeds on the other side of the river — they're Swedish.
October 5, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Some borders are less substantial than others. I took this photo in Norway. The reeds on the other side of the river — they're Swedish.
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the antisemitic richest man in the world is quite literally aligning with right wing germans, so yea my ancestral alarm bells are going fucking nuts
September 29, 2023 at 11:45 PM
the antisemitic richest man in the world is quite literally aligning with right wing germans, so yea my ancestral alarm bells are going fucking nuts
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Mark your calendars for 2028: FOMC transcripts on Biden joining the picket line should be interesting.
September 23, 2023 at 8:11 AM
Mark your calendars for 2028: FOMC transcripts on Biden joining the picket line should be interesting.
as i, once again, shout into the void.
September 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM
as i, once again, shout into the void.