Archive - Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

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…

Apr 17 •

England ca. 1900 as the Only True Steampower-Industrial Society EVAR

On the "Sonderweg" of the Anglo-Saxons...

Apr 15 •

2024-04-16 Tu: Scratchpad: Trying Again to Understand Recent Monetary Policy in the United States...

A scratchpad…

Apr 15 •

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…

Apr 15 •

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?...

Apr 15 •

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…

Apr 13 •

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...

Apr 12 •

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…

Apr 11 •

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…

Apr 9 •

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…

Apr 8 •

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…

Apr 6 •

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…

Apr 2 •

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