Michael Dedmon

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Don’t ever change Gaga

Notable that Skanda talks about Warsh's RECORD (actions and words) across different administrations, while El-Erian etc praise seems to be mostly along the lines of "we've hung out with him in G30, yeah he's a serious guy".

Neil Dutta and Skanda being so anti-Warsh (my perspective as well) while people like Jason Furman and El-Erian praised him say a lot about how different types of people judge qualifications and character when it comes to Fed governors.

Mandelson told Epstein he was 'trying hard' to change bonus policy after payment to husband, files show Emails released by the US Department of Justice shed new light on the closeness of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and former UK business secretary Peter Mandelson, who was sacked as British ...

This ought to have been the main UK news story from the DoJ’s latest Jeffrey Epstein data dump.

Peter Mandelson told Epstein he was “trying hard” to change government policy on bankers’ bonuses at his request, months after Epstein paid thousands of pounds to the then Business Secretary’s husband.

Every time I see someone like Abbott choose self-inflicted decline, I think of this quote from Pedro Sanchez:

"Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country. It’s as simple as that."

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Sure it’s lib maxxing to say but this is king shit

Stone Center Working Paper Series - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality yes

The paper, which focuses on 19th century estimates, proposes a set of "rules" or a broadly common methodology to enable better comparability of the results. Read the paper by @brankomilan.bsky.social, @philerfurth.bsky.social, @mgzl.bsky.social, & @ggabbuti.bsky.social.

Abstract of working paper

A new WP discusses methodological issues that arise in the study of inequality using social tables, an approach commonly employed for estimating income distributions in societies where neither income surveys nor tax data are available.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications...

Measles are back. Gold is at the center of the global monetary system. 1940s are so hot RN.

The way to act is not by depreciating € to bolster exports, but by using causes behind euro appreciation as alibi to increase joint & several fiscal spending funded by ROW, thus boosting € internationalization & reducing vulnerability to US sanctions and surveillance, you morons.

AAUP President on the Killing of Alex Pretti: “This Moment Demands A Powerful Response from the Labor Movement” AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, January 24.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti:

"This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE."

Full statement:

My nearly 4 year old, daughter of millennials: is this Goose?

Me, trying desperately to be relevant: Good guess sweetie but it’s Geese.

Fußball-WM 2026: Sollte der DFB über einen Boykott nachdenken? Die Fußballwelt als Staffage: An Donald Trumps Politik wird auch die Weltmeisterschaft nichts ändern. Die Positionierung des DFB scheint klar.

Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.

No

Really smart, historically-grounded stuff (especially on the multiple dimensions, timeframes, & processes of de-dollarization), amidst lots of hyperbole & too-soon prognostications of surefire structural transformation of the international monetary system:

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

Global soccer is run by the most craven, greedy criminals alive - Johnny Baby chief among them. I have incredibly low expectations but that the whole of UEFA has not already openly threatened to boycott the World Cup is immense cowardice.

Always read Dan!

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How to dismantle a reserve currency For the economic tumult that the dollar has faced over the last eighty years, its political foundations have remained steadfast—until now. As the political order on which the dollar system rests grows...

Easy IPE lesson plan:
@danielmcdowell.bsky.social's "How to Dismantle a Reserve Currency" +
@alphaville.ft.com's "Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets?"

Discuss.

Atop the Forces of Production Announcing the launch of the Forces of Production macro data newsletter

okay so fun news, I am launching a macro newsletter from Common Wealth about the supply side data and the US economy called Forces of Production

Charts for bsky forthcoming at: @forcesofproduction.com
Launch essay below:

www.forcesofproduction.com/p/atop-the-f...

✨New article out in International Studies Review✨

NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models.

doi.org/10.1093/isr/...

I’m going to walk into the sea 🌊

Glad to see Macron following Chirac’s sound maxim of avoiding any American venture that also involves Tony Blair.

Truly amazing (derogatory)

If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.

“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.