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

Donald Trump Is too Old to Be President, Yet Every Day, Live on Camera, We Get the Daily Farce of Pretending This Is in Some Way Normal

We have pretended our way into a constitutional crisis. When your president can't explain the Declaration of Independence, you don’t have a presidency…

May 6 •

8% of the Flow of US Real GDP Is Likely to Vanish in the Next Three Months: The Ports Will Be Empty, & then the Shelves

Launching a strategy-less trade war has consequences: f*** around & find out what happens when you make trade policy as a side-effect of performance…

Apr 29 •

TRUMPXIT: The Bell Tolls for Thee

We were once indispensable. Now we’re just unpredictable. Economic power runs on trust. Trump has burned trust in America to the ground. Brexit slashed…

Apr 8 •

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

Journamalism in a Neofascist Chaos-Monkey Age...

Jan 24 •

Trumpist Chaos-Monkey Feces-Flinging in Trade Policy Continues. & It Is Turning into a Foreign-Policy Dumpster Fire...

Trump desperately wants to be on the phone with Xi Jinping, the dog has poked its nose into the steel trap, and corrupt media pretending to sanewash…

Apr 17 •

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, & Co.: They Are Not Brains, They Are Kernel-Smoother Functions

If your large language model reminds you of a brain, it’s because you’re projecting—not because it’s thinking. It’s not reasoning, it’s interpolation…

Apr 16 •

On Peter Thiel's AntiChrist

“Restrainer” Politics: Billionaire TechBro Peter Thiel, Nazi Political Philosopher-Theologian Carl Schmitt, Pacifist Christians René Girard & Wolfgang…

Oct 7 •

Broad-Front Political Messaging in the Age of Trump: Kilmar Abrego Garcia & Such

Out of my lane, but Trump’s extrajudicial cruelty is not a footnote—it needs to be on the front page. The casual and cruel attempt to destroy Garcia’s…

May 4 •

A Musing on Trumpian Fantasies of What the Economy Is: Shovel-Ready Self-Delusions

Start from a deeply deluded place about what the economy is & you are playing a stupid game. & so to the extent that Trump is not stopped and removed…

Apr 26 •

Politics as Making Hardwood Furniture with Dull Tools: Mamdani's NYC Primary Win Is Not a Win, But Only an Uncertain High-Stakes Bet

The Democratic primary is just the preseason, in that it does not count at all. A clear-eyed view of this is essential for successfully building…

Jun 26

I Have Reached My Limit. I Cannot Stand It. Too Much Sanewashing of the Trump Administration Has Broken My Brain

A huge number of journalists continue to talk about a “Trump administration” with things called “policies” that it “plans”. They know better. They…

Apr 25 •

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 •

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