Coffee Break: Senate Dems Throw Teetering Trump a Lifeline
Senate Democrats threw a teetering Trump administration a lifeline by folding on the U.S. government shutdown. Let's parse the kayfabe.
Senate Democrats threw a teetering Trump administration a lifeline by folding on the U.S. government shutdown. Let's parse the kayfabe.
Killing FAIR, chasing “Personal Artificial Super-Intelligence”: the fast‑second strategy is dead; “PASI” reframes AI as product platform, not plumbing'; Scale AI, TBD Lab, and nine‑figure hires...
For decades, investors and academics have debated whether financial markets properly value corporate innovation.
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
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Lying has worked for Trump in the past. Is this a lie too far?
The Turkish Trojan Horse pressures Russia and Iran on new fronts, but China holds dominant position.
The Trump/Pulte 50 year mortgage scheme is indeed really bad even before getting to the fact that it would probably increase home prices.
A sadly necessary reminder of what US regime change operations are about. Hint: nothing good.
The cliché says nothing happened before 1800. The data say capability rose steadily—only population swallowed the dividends. Replace vibes with an index: average income × √population. Suddenly...
Socialist priorities aren't going to retain NYC's key industries or bring down its high costs.
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have exposed a new reality: the battlefield is becoming too transparent, too fast, and too automated for mass, low-skill infantry to survive. In that environment, militari
A longer version of my book review
To confirm prejudices some of you may habor: supercenters are bad! No wonder retailers love the format.
You have the right to work only but never to its fruits.
In the past few years, we have seen the widespread popularity of prediction markets, like Kalshi or Polymarket.
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Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Here's the kicker: according to the Mexican government, there are no official reports of any such attack.
They’re pathologically unwilling to help Americans in need — and Democrats should hammer this home
Health care in the US has become too big to fix.
AI is now so clearly a money burn pit that efforts are already underway to fob the losses off on taxpayers. Is there any way to head it off?
AI Boom or Fiscal Crisis?
Translation is intellectual engineering: accuracy and consistency are key: choose fidelity. Reading Marx without apocalyptic filters imposed because who he was does not suit present-day purposes…
New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani won the election, but now his real battle with entrenched power begins.
Even with Russia's domination undeniable as its electricity attacks turn off power all over Ukraine, Russia still has complex choices to make.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
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Temporarily shut down by Team Cave
Despite years of supposed preparation, the bloc is now scrambling for rare earths. Will the US have any more success?
The explosion of populations east of the Mississippi was made possible by logging and the slaughter of wolves.
The casual US celebration of violence runs into the reality that those required to inflict it regularly suffer deep inner damage.
An excerpt from my book, Weeb Economy.
Democracy’s failure modes in the age of the Shadow Docket. Trump gives new life and force to the fears of Friedrich von Hayek. Spite-dictated tariffs and funding whims now discipline America’s...
A practical guide of questions and methods to become more media literate individuals
The election of Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City was a political shock well captured by the tweet of the night:
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The Confessions of Felix Krull is a movie about a charming, kind hearted scam artist and his adventures.
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