see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

Rip

YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Absolutely phenomenal discussion of Zach Carter's great "The price of peace" biography of Keynes and of Keynesianism--with Paul Krugman as an interviewer (Graduate Center City University of New York).
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EU and rule of law?

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

HOW THE AI RACE IS LIKE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROZONE

From today's newsletter, on the "bubble" and pursuit of the "fantastic object"

Increasingly the distance to Moscow defines defense and security policy. Subscribe for more from Chartbook: tinyurl.com/mpeffaxe.

So bizarre

Humanity is undergoing its current crisis precisely in the moment when we have found a new technological platform, cheap and steady. It is the Ancient Regime that causes the trouble, not the limits or deficiencies of the new technological order. The maps are from Nature, and hopefully credible.

Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials [FREE TO READ] President says move will ‘mean a lot more business for America’

The Trump administration wants to stop foreign aid and encourage US companies to bribe other governments.

The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

www.ft.com/content/917c...

My latest interview @bloomberglp.bsky.social
Fed will hike in 2025H2 - unless Trump Admin overdoes tariffs and deportations to cause recession. More likely we get inflation from tax cuts, tariffs, and reduced migration.
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it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

Not Joey's point, but it has become conventional wisdom that Europe is falling far behind the U.S. technologically — people are even calling it a museum to past successes. And official productivity numbers do show Europe lagging. And yet ... 1/

Whenever Russia conquers territory in Ukraine, it murders civic leaders and other civilians, sets up torture chambers, and deports children for assimilation in Russia. Ukrainians resist because defeat or surrender means Russian genocidal policy on the scale of their entire country.