@rajakorman.bsky.social
Bay Area US. Aging macro expat. Cheap lunch guy. 1st to ever rhyme Duce and Juche. Neoliberal peacenik. Has Herder immunity. The Stakhanov of niche but quality puns. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen & dad humors.
The old world is dying, and a new world is struggling to be born. It is the time of
... pursued by a bear?
Citizens United: Voice & Exit Liquidity
Musk leaning on index providers to force them to carry his stock at full market cap despite a minuscule float is entirely in line with his opposition to diversity in equity inclusion.
In case you haven’t seen, here’s a link thread with most of the others. bsky.app/profile/raja...
As you know, I have written about this in multiple word lengths, I should have yet another effort coming out soon.
Among the many contradictions of this WH is how it wants to retreat from providing global public goods like defense/demand, frequently acts as a destabilizer of the commons, but wants to retain privileges of a hegemonic stabilizer like currency centrality & low interest rates.
Is the world’s most disputed/variously attributed banger, “ it was worse than a crime, it was a blunder?”
Right, but can say Bloomberg TV be prohibited from being carried on a cable channel (owner of cable channel preferences/pressures aside) by the FCC?
As with much of my broad content on the subject, the Venn was created when Biden was President.
So there is a PLA N?
If not now, Venn
(A continuing series).
The FCC has no jurisdiction over content on cable channels or streams.
But Carr is an idiot who also gets the refs for broadcast wrong regardless.
Thank you.
Does the FCC also control what stations can be carried on cable or streaming or only just pure broadcast on the airwaves? And if not, what percent of viewers receive their news via the airwaves vs. cable or streaming?
About that curse where your dad jokes turn into public policy.
As an EG alum, I know exactly what this involves, but this is still a sorta funny job description.
This one in particular is based on my view that while the US might come out better than RoW in relative terms after all the geoeconomic disruptions it has unleashed recently, it will have negative economic outcomes in absolute & aggregate terms for the US as well.
We have now reached the point where I’m starting to troll myself.
And a new meme!
The last 35 years have been (notwithstanding Asian Financial Crisis) been pretty good for those inside the circle. Everything the US has done in the last 10 days could, through a combination of impulsiveness & incompetence) screw them massively, an intention already evident over the last 14 months.
Spent most of my career talking down the endless stream of unjustified oil market alarm.
Now I’m acutely alarmed to the point of disbelief, the oil market is still shockingly sanguine, and I feel like this guy.
bsky.app/profile/raja...
Might start doing this more often. Roundup of some key visual gags of the week.
Nooo. Not these 2 books! Especially not together!
Thank you!
bsky.app/profile/raja...
Might start doing this more often. Roundup of some key visual gags of the week.
SMDH. Can’t believe exposure to a Midwestern milkshake in his teens made Merz more solicitous of the wrong Force de Frappe.
Speaking of George Michael, I assume you all know he was a ringer for young Stalin.