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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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Is America Today Really No More Unequal Economic Class-Wise than It Was in 1960?
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Grokking þe History of Antiquity: Ancient Stories of Élites Already More þan Half-Transformed into Myth
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Feral Joe: A Series: II
I—I just find it—and I know I use the phrase more than I've used it ever my whole career—un-American. It's un-American. It's not who the hell we are…
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WEEKLY BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-10-11 Th
My weekly read-around...
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Notes ScratchPad: Somone Probably Has the Presidential Race 80% in the Bag...
Plus some very disappointing journamalism from the "Wall Street Journal's" Ben Pershing; & MOAR. A scratchpad...
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PROJECT SYNDICATE: The U.S. Economy Defyïng Eeyore Expectations: Enjoy the Soft Landing
My October column: In a world where economic pessimism often dominates, the U.S. economy’s recent resilience stands out. Even after aggressive monetary…
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The Fed’s Year-Ago Achieved Soft Landing:—& Why Our Transitory Inflation Was a Feature, Not a Bug.
Time to Update My Inflation-Talk Talking Points. & so, as of October 8, 2024, the sitch. For my fall round of what-is-the-economic situation talks...
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The Second-International Socialists of the Late 1800s Atop Mt. Nebo: A Sketch of How They (More-or-Less) Viewed the World
Looking ahead to when, after the midterm, I get to humanity's true watershed boundary-crossing of 1870: how I now think I will present things, summing…
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Watching the Fed: Anticipated Rate-Cut Rollercoaster
With Nick Timiraos & Colby Smith—& Tim Duy—now in charge of how I interpret Fed messaging...
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Reading About Rome
A note on my current course: Economic Growth in Historical Perspective...
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"The Hunters of Kentucky": The Jacksonian Thread of American Nationalism
What I see as the third of the major strains of American national identity—behind Massachusetts-Puritan and Virginia-Cavalier: Kentucky-frontier...
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America Has No Alternative to Industrial Policy: PROJECT SYNDICATE
My September column is now live. As I said, it points to a problem—the problem of understanding and building state capacity—rather than offing a…
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