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PROJECT SYNDICATE: Bond Vigilantes! Or Is It "Bond Vigilantes?'?
Normal countries, countries with “exorbitant privilege”, and the threat of the loss of same. For even for those those with “exorbitant privilege” cannot…
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Brief Comments on the Economic & Political-Economic State of the Trump
I did a short interview with the BBC. Cleaned-up transcript. And my talking points. None of which I got to use...
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DRAFT: Night Thoughts on Dictatorial Court & Courtier Politics...
With the exoteric subject of the post being the rise of Deng Xiaoping to paramountcy in China in the late 1970s at the head of a coalition of PLA FFA…
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I Did an Interview with "Capital" Magazine in Türkiye...
Two big lessons, I think: (1) Expect to be surprised by what happens to your economy and to your rate of economic growth. (2) Recognize that “orthodox…
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DRAFT: I Get to Talk About the 2nd Industrial Revolution in American Economic History on Monday!
Behind the paywall because I am not yet fully happy with it. Lecture: Innovation, Immigration, & Industry: The 2nd Industrial-Revolution Era Making of…
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Anchoring Your Thoughts Against the Blizzard of Trumpist Lies Is Very Important for You!
Proper mental hygiene is essential if you are to be a useful part of humanity-as-an-anthology-intelligence over the next four years. Start now…
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February 2025

"Inflection Point", Hosted by Dylan Riley & Brad DeLong
Yes, another podcast, as if the world needed more… We are going to try to soft-relaunch "Inflection Point" next week, with our first guest being the…
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American Economic History: American Exceptionalism Calculations
2025-02-26 We Econ 113: Some quick-and-dirty back-of-the-envelope Python-calculated numbers on the "Great Traverse" that was the long-run knock-on…
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Desperate & Semi-Despairing Night Thoughts About Ukraine
Can you negotiate a peace with sooooo many liars in the room? Is there an unstable path to Ukraine’s future?
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What are We For?
The false populism of the current administration is already a source of growing conflict. Which only raises the question: now what?
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Slides for Tomorrow's (2025-02-24 Mo) "American Exceptionalism" American Economic History Lecture
Why isn't the United States of America one Giant Australia (or New Zealand)? Why the u.s. didn’t stay a land of farmers & miners. How infrastructure…
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First Principles of Fiscal Policy, with Some of Their Practical Applications
My Godley-Tobin Lecture at the Eastern Economic Association. It has turned out to be a full-throated defense of Federal Reserve monetary policy in the…
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