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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality—The SubStack
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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Donald Trump Is too Old to Be President, Yet Every Day, Live on Camera, We Get the Daily Farce of Pretending This Is in Some Way Normal
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8% of the Flow of US Real GDP Is Likely to Vanish in the Next Three Months: The Ports Will Be Empty, & then the Shelves
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Blame the Right-Wing Noise Machine, Not the Facts on the Ground, for Voters' Dismay About the Economy
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Trade, Trump, & the Inverse of Trust: I Gave a Quote to "Morning Brew" on How to View Trump
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J.D. Vance's Anti-Declaration
Truths Self-Evident No More
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FIRST DRAFT: Reviewing John Cassidy, "Capitalism & Its Critics"
Draft review of John Cassidy: "Capitalism & Its Critics". 2025-04-07...
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What Manufacturing Production Is Not Good For
Why chasing factory jobs for their own sake really is a dead end—and what policymakers should do instead. It is unions and social-insurance states, not…
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Ninety Days for Zero Deals, & Zero Certainty for the Future
Trump’s chaos-monkey trade policy looked at once again. No “art of the deal'“, but only a cascade of threats, double-crosses, and boasts; thus…
Jul 8
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Trumpxit & the Likely Undoing of American Exceptionalism
The fragile architecture of American-led economic and technological exceptionalistic prosperity faces its greatest test since its origins in the years…
Jul 5
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Fourteen-Lion Parade
Parking this here so I can find it easily. In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows…
Jun 26
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In the Country of the Tswana
In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows into the Kalahari Desert and dries up—to…
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LECTURE NOTES: Lash, Cash, & Cotton in the Imperial-Commercial & Early SteamPower Age
& the racialization of slavery. A ten-mintue taste of what my lectures have to say about post-1500 slavery. This then becomes the lecture introduction…
Jun 21
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Who Were the ‘We the People’ Back in 1787?: Race, Law, & Original Constitutional Sin
Plus the Reconstruction-Era XIV-Amendment redemption. In which I go down a rabbithole of “original public meaning” or whatever. A law student’s white…
Jun 21
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What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?: How We All Already Have Our Superintelligent AI-Assistant :: POSSIBLE LECTURE OUTLINE
Anthology Intelligence: humanity's collective brain is already our superintelligent friend: We don't need to build superintelligence because we did it…
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