Stephen Kirchner

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

I spent yesterday afternoon teaching my students about the Trump AI strategy that Dean largely wrote, with additional material from his substack. This is a remarkable statement for him to make.

There is no equivocation or nuance in Hegseth's statement and policy. He demanded, in his own words, "full, unrestricted access" to a private companies resources and proprietary models. When Anthropic refused, he designated the company as an enemy and enacted economic retribution against it.

After IEEPA: law and economics Plus, AI versus right-wing MMT; and Australian Q4 GDP growth nowcasts

This week's newsletter: stephenkirchner.substack.com/p/after-ieep...

Supreme Court ruling on tariffs unleashes more than 900 legal challenges Claims for refunds soar after judges rule against Trump administration

Court of International Trade sees hundreds of cases seeking refunds of IEEPA tariff duties paid, with interest www.ft.com/content/365d...

Takaichi-ism at the BOJ | Japan Daily Briefing Look at Takaichi's picks for the central bank's policy board

Japanese PM appoints fiscal reflationists to the BoJ policy board, including Chuo University economist Asada Tōichirō, a heterodox Keynesian who translated Hyman Minsky into Japanese observingjapan.substack.com/p/takaichi-i...

Takaichi-ism at the BOJ | Japan Daily Briefing Look at Takaichi's picks for the central bank's policy board

Japanese PM appoints fiscal reflationists to the BoJ policy board, including Chuo University economist Asada Tōichirō, a heterodox Keynesian who translated Hyman Minsky into Japanese observingjapan.substack.com/p/takaichi-i...

Supreme Court ruling on tariffs unleashes more than 900 legal challenges Claims for refunds soar after judges rule against Trump administration

Court of International Trade sees hundreds of cases seeking refunds of IEEPA tariff duties paid, with interest www.ft.com/content/365d...

US Treasury Secretary initiated January's yen-dollar rate check: sources Washington was open to coordinated forex intervention if requested by Japan

US Treasury Secretary initiated January's yen-dollar rate check, according to the Nikkei. Bessent being more interested in intervention than the Japanese MoF tells you something asia.nikkei.com/business/mar...

US Treasury Secretary initiated January's yen-dollar rate check: sources Washington was open to coordinated forex intervention if requested by Japan

US Treasury Secretary initiated January's yen-dollar rate check, according to the Nikkei. Bessent being more interested in intervention than the Japanese MoF tells you something asia.nikkei.com/business/mar...

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SUPRISED? IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WITH HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAINCELL AND A PULSE THAT'S SUPRISED??
fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Trump raises global tariffs to 15% in wake of Supreme Court loss President attacks judges for a second day as he escalates levies from 10%

President Trump ups the section 122 global tariff rate to 15% for 150 days, effectively trashing the 10% deal done with the UK www.ft.com/content/8b1e...

How ‘homeland’ put America on the path to illiberalism A phrase from the 1990s altered America’s sense of itself — and its political trajectory

"US was historically strongest when it resisted precisely that form of politics" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

SCOTUS decision wipes out nearly three-quarters of Trump’s tariff depredations taxfoundation.org/blog/supreme...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Totally appalling way to treat anyone but in this case this woman had not broken any immigration rule at all. And the British consulate were completely and inexcusably useless. Awful and I think deserves some response from the Foreign Office.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

SCOTUS decision wipes out nearly three-quarters of Trump’s tariff depredations taxfoundation.org/blog/supreme...

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

Killing for Content The Trump Administration cares more about clicks and content than human life.

"The second Trump administration is almost entirely staffed by content creators who want to make content and they are expending your taxpayer dollars as well as the international reputation of the United States of America to do it." www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-...

How ‘homeland’ put America on the path to illiberalism A phrase from the 1990s altered America’s sense of itself — and its political trajectory

"US was historically strongest when it resisted precisely that form of politics" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Live long enough to see the arse end of a Huntington Wave

Live long enough to see the arse end of a Huntington Wave

It took almost a decade, but now they have worked it out

The century of humiliation continues

Russia's humiliating setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine are balanced by another theatre in which the Kremlin scores effortless victories—inside the White House.

From 2017

The AI productivity take-off is finally visible New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology

A not very convincing attempt to argue that AI-based productivity gains are already in the data. US productivity has been strong given growth in capital-intensive industries like tech and oil and gas giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The AI productivity take-off is finally visible New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology

A not very convincing attempt to argue that AI-based productivity gains are already in the data. US productivity has been strong given growth in capital-intensive industries like tech and oil and gas giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The first behavioral economics Nobel was in 2002, for work done in the 1970s.

The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.