Chase Foster

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

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Global Capital’s Break With the US Is Long Overdue Trump’s policies have accelerated an overdue shift, as US market advantages fade and investors reassess their heavy exposure to American assets.

The most interesting story in global markets right now isn’t “Sell America.”

It’s that reallocating capital toward faster-growing, less-correlated economies could raise returns and reduce risk at the same time.

My Essay for #Bloomberg on why this is good news!

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Presidential vs parliamentary systems in a nutshell:

In the UK, a prime minister may be toppled by his own party for poor judgment in appointing an Epstein associate to an ambassadorship.

In the US, a president central to Epstein's network still commands near-unanimous support from his party.

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

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I fixed the NYTimes headline for its story about Trump’s explicitly white supremacist social media posts.

SpaceX buys xAI in $1.25tn deal to unite crucial parts of Elon Musk’s empire Rocket company boosts valuation to $1tn and pays $250bn to acquire AI start-up as Musk envisions data centres in space

A proposed merger to create a $1.25T firm, the largest in history. Yet major outlets are barely discussing antitrust!

This is what unrestrained contractual freedom looks like.

Concentration at a level that would make Rockefeller blush, with self-dealing treated as normal
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While teaching today, I learned that the ancient paradox of our origins, which baffled priests and oracles for centuries, has now been finally solved by Gemini.

Artificial general intelligence, folks. 🐣

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Thrilled to share my chapter “Competition Law and Capitalism” in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government. It connects competition law to political economy, varieties of capitalism, and market-shaping governance.

I'm excited to read the rest of the volume!
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Dramatic, short-sighted, terrible.

And the NEH staffing cuts were twice that.

Boycott the FIFA World Cup, impose retaliatory tariffs, divest from U.S. Treasury bills, activate the EU Anti-Coercion Instrument. Europe has the tools. Use them.

For once, I agree with Thomas Friedman: Trump is accelerating the moral and political bankruptcy of the United States, with financial consequences sure to follow.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Trump’s imperial tantrum is so incoherent it couldn’t survive a Borgen writers’ room. Sadly, we’re stuck watching it anyway.

Opinion | Amy Coney Barrett Is Looking Beyond the Trump Era

My main takeaway from this interview is that Justice Barrett holds an extraordinarily parochial, incurious & unoriginal understanding of the law, its evolution over time, and its relationship to societal legitimacy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Opinion | Kennedy’s Comments on Circumcision Are Only Going to Confuse and Shame Parents

Waiting for causal inference experts to chime in about the current state of public health recs in the US

Deriving causation from observational studies is always difficult. Without a theory, mechanism or consideration of omitted variables, an association means nothing
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Thermostatic public opinion, reacting against the governing regime, like old faithful.
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The New York Times has long normalized and relativized the unforgivable in its pursuit of balance and nuance. Once the nation’s paper of record, it has become a mockery of its former self, publishing drivel that serves less to inform the public than to flatter the powerful.

Only those who’ve lived in Germany know the pure elation and relief of finding an official document you thought you’d lost… in my case, my certificate of deregistration.

I don’t think my relationship with the German state will ever truly be over.

I’ve been considering it for years, but I’m still not convinced it’s the right choice at this stage of my life.

Has anyone theorized “weighted sloth capitalism”?

Struggling to understand what this product is and why I’m targeted as someone most likely to engage with this ad.

The educational sector hired 12,000 people on H1Bs annually from 2009-2023 according to this source.

Are universities covered by today’s executive order? If so, what other options would they have for hiring non-Americans?

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Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

Another bombshell executive order today.

I'm no immigration expert, but if this holds up in court, it could effectively end most U.S. work visas — and make it prohibitively expensive to hire non-citizens at American universities.
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Scholars once assumed that countries w state-owned media were most vulnerable to the authoritarian capture of the public sphere. Hungary proved that wrong. By leveraging licensing, private media can be brought to heel—all the more so w high concentration of ownership. Trump has learned from Orban.

Opinion | Don’t Just Defend the Fed. Reinvent It.

Great piece by @adamtooze.bsky.social in today’s @nytimes.com on the deeper questions related to Fed independence. Come for his history of the Fed as a deradicalizing force, stay for his endorsement of @levmenand.bsky.social’s proposal for a triennial review.

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Political violence is toxic and unacceptable in a liberal democracy. But what is even more toxic and unacceptable in a liberal democracy is the hypocritical and rabid vilification of half of the country—including its most vulnerable groups—by the gun-loving party in power, and the president himself.

True, though I’d add that Vancouver in the winter feels more like purgatory.

Good news from Brazil on an otherwise grim news day.

2025 could mark the first year in American history when the population declines. The brutal crackdown on immigrants will have tremendous economic as well as human rights consequences.

Congratulations!

Chains of Command: The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy

pre-order @briancallaci.bsky.social's book!

I am jealous of how good this cover is

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