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England ca. 1900 as the Only True Steampower-Industrial Society EVAR
On the "Sonderweg" of the Anglo-Saxons...
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2024-04-15 Mo: Scratchpad: Donald Trump: Sundowning in America...
A scratchpad…
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-15 Mo
What do we think of the Federal Reserve’s doing a 25-bp policy-rate reduction in June?; Nilay Patel turns SEO into an art form; the distribution of…
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Are Editors Useful? Noah Smith Says: NO!!
Is it now time to disintermediate the editorial process? &, if so, for how long has this been true?...
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READING: Patricia Crone on the Agrarian Landlord-Dominated Gunpowder-Empire as the Normal Climax Societal Order of the East African Plains…
...barring exceptional & extraordinary historical accidents, of course. From Patricia Crone: "Pre-Industrial Societies". & why is this still the best…
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On Ryan Avent’s Meditations on Trumpism
Pulling this from a year and a half ago out on its own so that I will more easily be able to find it later...
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Trying to Puzzle Through the Current Macro Situation
For the first time since 2009-2010, when I (mistakenly) believed that Bernanke at the Fed & Obama & the center of gravity of his advisors understood the…
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-09 Tu
Fidel Castro needs to micromanage bread-baking; Arkansas sent into a state of emergency by solar eclipse; TSLA’s history as a profit-making institution…
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Large-Scale Transcontinental Societal Coöperation in the Classical-Age East-African Plains Ape
Trying to arrest people's attention by making them recognize how strange are the ways that we humans manage to get things done—when, that is, we…
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-06 Sa
The rising possibility of not a soft landing but rather of no landing; data science & standard liberal arts as the new trivium & quadrivium foundational…
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-02 Tu
Faux & Chafkin on FTX a grift from the get-go; Levine is on the point of abandoning belief in “fundamental values’; we are not quite completely ignorant…
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Sub-Turing BradBot: Finally Ready for Prime Time!
Well, maybe not: the first two conversations with the 2024-03-29 version at…
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