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WELCOME TO BRAD DELONG’S GRASPING REALITY: My attempt to make my readers—and myself—smarter, while keeping all of you out there in SubStackLand…

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Blame the Right-Wing Noise Machine, Not the Facts on the Ground, for Voters' Dismay About the Economy

Feb 16 • Brad DeLong

The "Wall Street Journal" Tells Us: Trump Takes Command of Inflation, Which Was Massively Unsatisfactory under Biden

Jan 24 • Brad DeLong

PROJECT SYNDICATE: Bond Vigilantes! Or Is It "Bond Vigilantes?'?

Mar 7 • Brad DeLong

READING: LARRY SUMMERS: Harvard Should Spend Its Endowment to Fight the Intellectual War Against Donald Trump

Apr 3 • Brad DeLong

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PODCAST: Hexapodia LXIII: Plato's WereWolf, & Other Trumpist Topics

Back after a year on hiatus! Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast They, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning…

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Trump vs. Powell vs. Trump vs. Warsh

On the Edge Again: The Fed, Trump, and the Risk of a 1980s-Style Spiral: An ongoing cautionary tale of monetary policy, inflationary pressures, and the…

Apr 23 •

Trade, Trump, & the Inverse of Trust: I Gave a Quote to "Morning Brew" on How to View Trump

Like a declassé WWF performer yelling obscenities while waving a metal folding chair over his head & threatening to come into the ring and beat the s**t…

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"Ser Nihilo" & Ser Niccolò in France: Machiavelli, Broke & Un-Listened to at the French Court of Louis XII

The Renaissance city-state of Florence sends a junior diplomat to try to fix the diplomatic consequences of a military disaster. And doesn’t fund him…

Apr 22 •

UPDATE: This, Again: Scott Bessent Wants to Resurrect the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But Does Donald Trump? No.

For Donald Trump to want to resurrect the TPP—to recognize he made a huge mistake back in January 2017—would be possible only if Donald Trump actually…

Apr 21 •

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Taming Our Unaccountable Societal-Scale Machines: How Impossible Is It Going to Be?

"Management Cybernetics" may be the name of the only thing that can save us from our own systems for anthology-intelligence societal-scale coöperation…

Mar 23 •

New Podcast!: Inflection Point: The Berkeley Political Economy Podcast

Relaunching! Relaunch starring John Ganz, author of the truly excellent book When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, & How America Cracked Up in…

Mar 18 •

R.I.P. Kevin Drum

Your memory is a blessing, my friend...

Mar 14 •

PROJECT SYNDICATE: Bond Vigilantes! Or Is It "Bond Vigilantes?'?

Normal countries, countries with “exorbitant privilege”, and the threat of the loss of same. For even for those those with “exorbitant privilege” cannot…

Mar 7 •

Anchoring Your Thoughts Against the Blizzard of Trumpist Lies Is Very Important for You!

Proper mental hygiene is essential if you are to be a useful part of humanity-as-an-anthology-intelligence over the next four years. Start now…

Mar 1 •

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