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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Panic of 1825. From 2009
The weekend back in the 1820s that I see as the origins of “modern” central banking as we have known & still know it: the moment when the pattern was…
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NOTES: On the Puzzling Classical Socialist Belief of Both the Necessity & the Ease of Building a Non-Market Economic System
What were the classical socialists thinking in their confidence that it would be very easy to replace the market economic system with some combination…
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What Factors Do We See That Might Upend America's Soft Macroeconomic Landing?
Hint: the big threatening factor is not that the Federal Reserve is likely to reduce interest rates too much too soon. It is, rather, the threat of a…
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[U.S.] Federal Debt: Frog in the Pot?
My article in the 2024Q2 "Milken Review"; yes, I know Jim Fallows hates the "frog in a pot" trope as simply wrong—a real frog would hop out of the pot…
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READING: Annette Gordon-Reed on Understanding Sally Hemings's Life
Annette Gordon-Reed's 2019 Twitter thread...
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"Civic Friendship": The Baseline Requirement for Democracy, & Incompatible with the Financial Flows Underpinning the Republican Ecology
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My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"
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NOTES: ChatGPT4's Current Ability to "Reason", & What Follows from That...
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Is America Today Really No More Unequal Economic Class-Wise than It Was in 1960?
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ScratchPad: 2024-05-20 Mo: The Mainstream Press's Anti-Biden Double Standard; & "&udm=14" as the Magic Switch to Make Google Less of a…
A scratchpad…
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HenryFarrellBot: LLMs as Cultural Technologies
Henry Farrell of JHU Agora has… not conclusions, nor really a research program, but a call for a research program on ChatGPT4o and all of its ilk. What…
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Henry Farrell on LLMs as cultural technologies; Ian Morris on the shape of human history; investing in America; very briefly noted; Bruce Stirling on…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LIX: DeLong Smackdown Watch: China Edition
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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ScratchPad: 2024-05-13 Mo: Bruce Stirling on Frankenstein's Monsters Mopping Up at Fast-Food Restaurants; & Fixing Apple's Very Unfortunate…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LVIII: Mourning the Death of Vernor Vinge
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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[U.S.] Federal Debt: Frog in the Pot?
My article in the 2024Q2 "Milken Review"; yes, I know Jim Fallows hates the "frog in a pot" trope as simply wrong—a real frog would hop out of the pot…
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Tesla Needs Its Tim Cook Now!
What is Tesla, Anyway? And What Is to Be Done About Its Management? Now that Elon Musk is no longer a fundraiser, cheerleader, & sometime coach for…
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READING: Patricia Crone on the Agrarian Landlord-Dominated Gunpowder-Empire as the Normal Climax Societal Order of the East African Plains…
...barring exceptional & extraordinary historical accidents, of course. From Patricia Crone: "Pre-Industrial Societies". & why is this still the best…
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Large-Scale Transcontinental Societal Coöperation in the Classical-Age East-African Plains Ape
Trying to arrest people's attention by making them recognize how strange are the ways that we humans manage to get things done—when, that is, we…
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On Færie-Stories—like Frank Herbert's "Dune"—Derived from Agrarian-Age Roots
Dune is a great movie! & "Dune" is a great book! But—highly problematic. Even so, I do not believe we should worry & care all that much...
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LIX: DeLong Smackdown Watch: China Edition
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LVIII: Mourning the Death of Vernor Vinge
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LVII: The "Vibecession" Is Losing Its Vibe
Producer Confidence & Consumer Confidence (in the Economy), & Our Confidence (in Our Analyses): Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LVI: Economic Development: Oks & Williams, Rodrik & Stiglitz
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LV: The Forthcoming Successful Development of the Asia Circle, & Dehyperglobalization
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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