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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES FROM 1998: Robber Barons

“Industrial Statesmen”, Robber Barons, & billionaires: wealth, power, & the politics of fortune from railroads to Silicon Valley—how the rules of…

Feb 15 •

Time to Revisit: How Does This Assessment Look Fourteen Months Later?

I need to update my assessment I made 14 months ago about "Team Transitory" vis-à-vis "Team Persistent" on US early-2020s inflation. I need to update it…

Feb 10 •

REVIEW: Small People Dealing with Looming Fascism Novel Watch

I do love Jo Walton's "Small Change" trilogy. & I do find it, once again, a very suitable read for our times. Save for the not-unhappy ending part...

Feb 8 •

NOTE TO SELF: TrumpChaos in a BREXIT Mirror

Is the best analogy to the chaos-monkey international trade politics Trump has embarked upon the example of BREXIT? And, if so, what does that tell…

Feb 6 •

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Reviewing Alan Furst's Novel "Dark Star"

From 2001, of a book published in 1991. Alan Furst (1991), Dark Star (New York: Houghton Mifflin: 0006511317). Still the best book about Europe in the…

Feb 4 •

In Data Science for Non-STEM Majors, Is Learning-by-Watching Live Calculating Possible? Likely? Reasonable to Expect?

We commit as much intellectual malpractice when we let our students graduate from the university these days without command of the basic data science…

Jan 28 •

& We Are Live Over at the "Milken Review", with: Chickens Coming Home to Roost?: The Perils of Deglobalization

Remember the damage the idiot Tories did to Britain via BREXIT? Yeah, that. A coördinated deglobalization effort will do that to the world. And, whether…

Jan 23 •

American Economic History: Introduction

No Grand Narrative allowed: An episodic approach to American economic history, vaguely grouped around the center point of "American Exceptionalism"...

Jan 22 •

DRAFT NOTES on "Grab 'Em by the Pussy" for January 20, 2025

A little advice I think necessary to give to the confused right-wing young men of America in the age of Trump II. My bottom line? Listen to the wise…

Jan 20 •

HOISTED FROM A YEAR AGO: Why Is There No Gentry-Massacring Peasant Jacquerie in "Pride & Prejudice"?

2024-01-08: One would think that the situation of Mr. Bennet, Mr. Darcy, & Lizzie Bennet in Pride & Prejudice would end with them like their French…

Jan 16 •

NOTES: Reckoning with Post-Columbus Empires

Conquest & cosmopolitanism: The point of empire is domination & exploitation. The legacies of empire-building can include peace, technology transfer…

Jan 15 •

Notes on the Macro-Finance Sitch for 2025-01-13 Mo

Four points, as my ability to accurately & precisely visualize the macro-finance Cosmic All continues to deteriorate...

Jan 13 •

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