Karthik Sankaran

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We acknowledge the importance of critical minerals and infrastructure but simultaneously try to enlarge the vision of the national interest to something that goes beyond the sectors that seem to be arousing the most enthusiasm right now.

My colleague Dan Ford and I just completed a brief on a bigger DFC. We welcome its likely reauthorization and suggest how it can combine the pursuit of US interests with global development without taking on an overly securitized or exclusionary approach.
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Sounds great!

Et al.: Because not all research deserves a Nobel Prize Et al. is a satirical academic journal that uses machin…

Have you read this book? It’s full of joke academic articles. One of them is about using GTA5 to test several self-driving models, one of them using the Kantian categorical imperative IIRC.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

It’s Cockney for healing.

RIP carbon dating.

Fall into the GAAP.

My other car is a Kantian.

Also, at least English cricket shares its initials with a respectable bank unlike

Don’t worry. The ECB is known for doing whatever it takes.

Opinion | China’s Myanmar Project Could End U.S. Sanctions The digital currency would operate outside Swift but still have access to American banks.

Overwrought vs. s/t implications, but captures deep DC anxiety about how pipelines transparent to CN but opaque to US cud upend rising reliance on $ centrality as a tool of surveillance/suasion directed at an ever-increasing # of countries & firms (export controls).

www.wsj.com/opinion/chin...

Backpacks on in front of metro/subway door entrance with headphones on so they cant hear you is the ASBO Of Everyday Life Trifecta.

Lil Wayne says he often has to google a specific phrase he wants to use plus his name, to make sure he hasn’t already used those lyrics. Curse of the prolific

This is what happens when you have done so many of them, you forget your catalog and that you already did the perfect one, and instead reject “slide deck” and “succumbs to froth” as not good enough. Besides, I had a webinar that day.

Focus please.
Atlas HODL’d is like the most bathetic proclamation of all time!!!!

Apologize about polluting the stream but this was a week ago.

I can’t believe I missed the opportunity, when I had already written the joke months ago!

AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What? Reclaiming Learning in an Age of Distraction and Artificial Intelligence

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The $4,000 insurance policy designed to never pay out Most Americans will transact property multiple times over their lives, paying thousands in title insurance each time. Here's what you're actually paying for.

Patio11 recently did a post and podcast on it on how this is a US peculiarity and a racket www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/the...

This is literally the “you had one job” of the capitalist state.

@birdyword.bsky.social . I apologize for hijacking your efforts but you have to admit i have a point. Maybe it even comes up.

On page 2 of this, reading about 5 millenia of governments keeping track of land-ownership details, and muttering to myself, “100s of billions in AI Capex in America, and I still need to get effing title insurance!%*#??!”

A translation that was later denounced as being overly bellicose when what he really said was “We will be able to attend your Burrial.”

Was it Khrushchev who said, "We will Burry you?"

Top Fed official warns on risk hedge funds pose to $30tn Treasury market Lisa Cook says growing prevalence of so-called basis trades makes markets ‘more vulnerable to stress’

Huh. Maybe they should call it the Anabasis Trade?

www.ft.com/content/754e...

Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000 A discussion of Aileen Teague's new book.

Please join my colleague Sarang Shidore for his book talk with Dr. Aileen Teague at 11 am EST on November 24 on the US, Mexico, and the origins of the modern drug war.

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The punishment for counterfactuals should be the Chateau d'If.

Taiwan’s amazing economic achievements are yielding alarming strains It has the world’s most undervalued currency and one of its biggest trade surpluses

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