Archive - DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

CROSSPOST: PAUL KRUGMAN: Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment

Paul Krugman's subhead is: What JD Vance and his entourage in Milan teach us about Epstein’s magnetism.

13 hrs ago • Brad DeLong

Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment

What JD Vance and his entourage in Milan teach us about Epstein’s magnetism

Published on Paul Krugman • 13 hrs ago

Assessing Brink Lindsey's "the Permanent Problem"

The Enlightenment and modernity have, Brink Lindsey argues, led to mass society and mass affluence. But their overrun has also created a world where…

17 hrs ago • Brad DeLong

CROSSPOST: PHIL H: What Does Corruption Look Like?

Phil H.'s subtitle is: "They'll tell you not to believe what you can see with your own eyes". The post is about China's Tang Dynasty poet Han Hong's…

19 hrs ago • Brad DeLong

What does corruption look like?

They'll tell you not to believe what you can see with your own eyes

Published on Tang Poetry • 19 hrs ago

Trailer for the "Hail Mary" Movie, Starring Ryan Gosling, Made by My First Cousin Phil Lord & All His Contubernales

My first cousin's latest movie, after the book by Andy Weir: Ryan Gosling & Rocky vs. the world-ending astrophage apocalypse, as the sun itself is on…

Feb 9 • Brad DeLong

The Streaming Wars Were Just Plain Weird

Netflix climbs to the top of the streaming-success mountain only to see a much bigger mountain in front of it still to climb: The streaming wars were…

Feb 8 • Brad DeLong

Flummoxed by My Open Epstein Tabs

Conspicuously failing to successfully wrap my mind around any of this…

Feb 7 • Brad DeLong

CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark

Steve’s subhead: “Late Friday, two of the nation’s most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across…

Feb 7 • Brad DeLong

208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark

Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and…

Published on One First • Feb 7

CROSSPOST: DAN DAVIES: Snobby About Excel

Dan Davies has his finger on something important here. It is not, at root, about "AI". It is about work. The spreadsheet first escaped from the finance…

Feb 6 • Brad DeLong

snobby about excel

AI and the end user effect

Published on Dan Davies - "Back of Mind" • Feb 6

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