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The "1984" Theory of Bari Weiss

If someone keeps advancing despite demonstrable incompetence at public‑reason journalism, perhaps they are doing a different job than advancing public…

Dec 24 • Brad DeLong

OK: Is This Genuine?

The latest Epstein postcard, DeepFakes, & the Rufo Doctrine when nothing matters: Trump, predation, excuses, & the neofascist right marches on…

Dec 23 • Brad DeLong

Fake Standards & Real Pro-Trump Censorship: 60 Minutes, CBS News, Bari Weiss, Paramount-Skydance, the Ellisons, & the Trumps

Fake “standards” become real censorship: the segment Bari Weiss & the Ellisons do not want you to see—a cleared 60 Minutes report vanished, and why that…

Dec 23 • Brad DeLong

CROSSPOST: ADRIAN MONCK [NIE HUIHUA]: How to Get a Job in the Chinese Communist Party

With my comments appended. Adrian Monck’s introduction to the post: 3.7 million applicants. 40,000 positions. One professor’s survival guide: Renmin…

Dec 22 • Brad DeLong

Factory Asia & Trustability Bankruptcy: A Table Suggesting the Race to Be "The Furnace Where the Future is Forged" for the World in the…

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Dec 4 • Brad DeLong

A $140,000/Year Poverty Line? I: Stewarding & Utilizing Resources

Four factors making even rich people live poorly and hence feel poor in our immensely rich modern economy: a sense of precarity, a lack of centeredness…

Dec 4 • Brad DeLong

Using GPT LLM MAMLMs as Your Rabbit—Your Pacer

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Nov 22

Tuesday Economic Growth Blogging: The Pre‑Modern Treadmill Was Real on Necessities, Not on Technology, or Luxuries, or Culture, or Means of…

Greg Clark’s “Farewell to Alms” still tempts with one big, clean story: pre‑modern humanity stuck on a Malthusian treadmill until cultural-bio selection…

Nov 20 • Brad DeLong

The False Calm Before Steam: The Index H, Malthus, & the Long Slog, for Growth Was Very Real Before It Became Visible in Average Living…

The cliché says nothing happened before 1800. The data say capability rose steadily—only population swallowed the dividends. Replace vibes with an…

Nov 11 • Brad DeLong

DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

One of the best ways to learn to make sense of money, work, communication, production, distribution, and more. Betting that in the course of human things the future must resemble even if it does not reflect the past, people being much the same over time.

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