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Scratchpad: Expand the Supreme Court!, #Actually, We Are at the Fed's Inflation Target, & Resentment of the Poor by the Rich: 2024-04-26 Fr
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The Essential & Key Readings Selected from the Required Readings for Econ 115: The World Economy in the 20th Century
There is a demand for a shorter list of things to read than the 42-item reading list. (Hey! That isn't even three things a week!). So here is a list of…
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-22 Mo
Substantial monetary tightening since mid-2023 even as real economic strength and more rapid inflation reduction than expected offset each other; Dani…
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Understanding Book-Classification ISBN Numbers & the Current Limits of MAMLMs
My view: MAMLMs—Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models have significantly less in the way of parsimonious truth-based internal representations of the…
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ScratchPad: John Maynard Keynes Was too Concerned with Wealth & Income Distribution...: 2024-04-21 Su
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Why Is the Apple Vision Pro Going to Get Its Shot, While the Humane AI Pin Is Not Going to?
How much rationality is there in the market reactions so far—rationality in individual assessments and intentions, & rationality in the workings of…
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BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-04-17 We
The Frenchness of English; dog preferences; very briefly noted; Trying Again to Understand Recent Monetary Policy; Sundowning in America—Donald’s…
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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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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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