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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…

Mar 18 •

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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

Trumpist Chaos-Monkey Feces-Flinging in Trade Policy Continues. & It Is Turning into a Foreign-Policy Dumpster Fire...

Apr 17 • Brad DeLong

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The Current State of U.S. Trade "Negotiations": Opinions of Shape of Earth Differ

“Trade talks” where the U.S. cannot even start to talk about trade because their are no goals, no trusted staff, and no internal administration plan…

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Kernel Smoothing, Cargo Cults, & ChatGPT: Cosma Shalizi Takes on a Near-Impossible Teaching Task

This seems to me to be taking "volunteer to teach what you want to learn" to an extreme: MAMLM Edition. Behind the paywall because I do not know what I…

Apr 27 •

CGTN Panel: Trying to Assess the Impact of the Trump Tariff No Method Policy Disaster

It is a lie to claim that the United States now has a tariff or an industrial policy. It just has a chaos monkey making chaos, and a bunch of grifters…

Apr 26 •

The pundit's dilemma

Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That's a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow.

Published on Noahpinion • Apr 26

A Musing on Trumpian Fantasies of What the Economy Is: Shovel-Ready Self-Delusions

Start from a deeply deluded place about what the economy is & you are playing a stupid game. & so to the extent that Trump is not stopped and removed…

Apr 26 •

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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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