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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…

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"Civic Friendship": The Baseline Requirement for Democracy, & Incompatible with the Financial Flows Underpinning the Republican Ecology

Sep 25, 2023 • Brad DeLong

The "Wall Street Journal" Tells Us: Trump Takes Command of Inflation, Which Was Massively Unsatisfactory under Biden

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My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"

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Yes: This Is Worth Signing: Economists Who Are Neither Bought Nor Crazy Oppose Broad-Based Tariffs

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Blame the Right-Wing Noise Machine, Not the Facts on the Ground, for Voters' Dismay About the Economy

No, our economic statistics were not painting us an unusually rosy picture last fall. Yes, the state of the American economy is very disappointing. But…

Feb 16 •

Gini Coefficients...

Yes, 0 is complete equality and 1 is complete inequality; but, in between, what do they mean, really?

Feb 16 •

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES FROM 1998: Robber Barons

“Industrial Statesmen”, Robber Barons, & billionaires: wealth, power, & the politics of fortune from railroads to Silicon Valley—how the rules of…

Feb 15 •

Time to Revisit: How Does This Assessment Look Fourteen Months Later?

I need to update my assessment I made 14 months ago about "Team Transitory" vis-à-vis "Team Persistent" on US early-2020s inflation. I need to update it…

Feb 10 •

PROJECT SYNDICATE: Trump's Smoke & Mirrors

An awful lot of Trump is performative kayfabe focused on gaining attention—and doing horrible things to a few people. And an awful lot is disastrous…

Feb 9 •

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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES FROM 1998: Robber Barons

“Industrial Statesmen”, Robber Barons, & billionaires: wealth, power, & the politics of fortune from railroads to Silicon Valley—how the rules of…

Feb 15 •

Time to Revisit: How Does This Assessment Look Fourteen Months Later?

I need to update my assessment I made 14 months ago about "Team Transitory" vis-à-vis "Team Persistent" on US early-2020s inflation. I need to update it…

Feb 10 •

REVIEW: Small People Dealing with Looming Fascism Novel Watch

I do love Jo Walton's "Small Change" trilogy. & I do find it, once again, a very suitable read for our times. Save for the not-unhappy ending part...

Feb 8 •

NOTE TO SELF: TrumpChaos in a BREXIT Mirror

Is the best analogy to the chaos-monkey international trade politics Trump has embarked upon the example of BREXIT? And, if so, what does that tell…

Feb 6 •

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Reviewing Alan Furst's Novel "Dark Star"

From 2001, of a book published in 1991. Alan Furst (1991), Dark Star (New York: Houghton Mifflin: 0006511317). Still the best book about Europe in the…

Feb 4 •

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