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Will small businesses be squeezed between a tight labor market and a community bank credit crunch, delivering us even further into the hands of corporate overlords? Do we overestimate meaningful small biz formation by mistaking DoorDashers for Main Street moxie?
Interesting (troubling) questions at the end of this note by #MichaelGreen
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is the success of a shift from active management to index funds (mechanically, temporarily) self-fulfilling?
“If active managers are redeemed and replaced with passive managers who want to hold less cash, the ONLY solution is for equity prices to rise.” ~#MichaelGreen #ProfPlum99 https://michaelwgreen.substack.com/p/an-ode-to-a-burning-urn-of-cash
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Strong case for the prosecution. But so often when we accuse, we find our own sins in our adversaries (even when they genuinely are our adversaries' sins as well).
It's unbalanced, but a solid critique. The US legit squandered the soft power we once had, now stuff like this hits hard. The US has a great deal to repent.
But how persuasive to the world is a claim that what a hegemonic China might offer would in fact be a overall better?
We'll see.
via #PatrickLawrence
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html
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“Part of Trump’s genius is being bad in so many ways that no particular way stands out and it seems like he must not be that bad.” #ScottAlexander https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-endorses-harris-oliver-or-stein
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“The one thing that you should not be able to say about my work is that I am not telling you what I really think. That is the price of entry to the worthwhile part of the Ideas industry. We may be bastards, but we are not bullshitting you.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that-cannot-be-spoken ht @AliceMarshall
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“it turns out that a statistical aggregate economic gain does not produce an increase in real world human well being if all of that statistical gain is captured by a single, tiny powerful interest group.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-international-minimum-wage
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“(You may notice that straightforward ideas like ‘fire everyone in Democratic Party leadership positions automatically after a national election loss’ do not appear to be on the table.)” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-does-that-mean-in-practice ht @costrike
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Tax cuts “are the political equivalent of someone chopping your house to pieces with an axe and then offering the remains back to you under a sign that says, ‘Free Firewood!’” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/why-republicans-love-to-offer-you
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"[D]ivide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. [E]nemies are…opposed to your policy goals. [C]owards…agree with your…goals, but will sell you out…to protect their own interests. Embrace the idea that we are…pushing to elect…cowards, rather than…enemies. [T]he…work …is not to identify idealized superheroes to run for office [but] to create the conditions…that make it safe for the cowards to vote the right way." #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-think-about-politics- ht @ryanlcooper
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“Predicting the future is almost impossible, but one of the few predictions that I feel very confident in is that, a century or so down the road, people will look at modern car-centric America with the same disgust that we feel when we hear about old timey cities without modern sewage systems, where everyone just dumped their chamber pots in the street.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country
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from “Confiscate Their Money”, by #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate-their-money ht @scott
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“The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder ht @andrewducker
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“Capitalism is like nuclear power. It is a mighty force capable of producing great energy that can be harnessed for human progress—but if you don’t keep it tightly controlled, it will poison everything.” #HamiltonNolan https://defector.com/unions-can-fix-whats-broken ht @BlogWood
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"The ultimate function of the entrepreneurial ethic was (and is) to reconcile workers to precarity." #BeccaRothfeld (@heideggirl?) reviewing #ErikBaker's "Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America" https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/01/03/make-your-own-job-entrepreneurial-work-ethic-erik-baker-review/ ht @SteveRoth
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i don’t know why MY tax dollars should go towards apprehending that murderer. he didn’t murder me. #MeFirst
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"The hopeful news is that there has been something of a return to genuine mass membership groups, promoted by a new wave of on-the-ground organizing." #RobertKuttner https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/
// you are not going to build a world better for all on a foundation of charity from the very rich
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"The hopeful news is that there has been something of a return to genuine mass membership groups, promoted by a new wave of on-the-ground organizing." #RobertKuttner https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/
// you are not going to build a world better for all on a foundation of charity from the very rich
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"The hopeful news is that there has been something of a return to genuine mass membership groups, promoted by a new wave of on-the-ground organizing." #RobertKuttner https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/
// you are not going to build a world better for all on a foundation of charity from the very rich
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"The hopeful news is that there has been something of a return to genuine mass membership groups, promoted by a new wave of on-the-ground organizing." #RobertKuttner https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/
// you are not going to build a world better for all on a foundation of charity from the very rich
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"The hopeful news is that there has been something of a return to genuine mass membership groups, promoted by a new wave of on-the-ground organizing." #RobertKuttner https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-30-lefts-fragile-foundations/
// you are not going to build a world better for all on a foundation of charity from the very rich
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“Outlets such as The New York Times and NPR are doing excellent reporting… but they remain narrowly focused on the ethical lapses of employees rather than the real story, which is the political corruption of employers.”
#JeetHeer asks, why is Jeff Bezos putting the Washington Post under the control of sleaze? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeff-bezos-rupert-murdoch-will-lewis-hacking/
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“I’m suspicious of government, but I’m even more suspicious of new tech that aims to serve a tiny number of private individuals. Believe it or not, it’s actually easier to change the President or political regime than replace Mark Zuckerberg at Meta. (I’m not exaggerating, he literally cannot be fired by the Board, or anyone else.)” #TedGioia https://www.honest-broker.com/p/10-reasons-why-technological-progress
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“For the first time since the dawn of the Renaissance, innovation is now feared by the vast majority of people. And the tech leaders, once admired and emulated, now rank among the least trustworthy people in the world.” #TedGioia https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-did-silicon-valley-turn-into
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“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally.” #MashaGessen https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html
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“‘You know what was good about the Second World War?’ Nayyem asked wistfully. ‘It ended!’” #MashaGessen https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/ukraines-democracy-in-darkness
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someone should write a mystery novel in which the murder weapon is a paintbrush and then a hose to quickly spray away a very temporary white line.
from #DavidRosenthal #DSHR https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/elon-musk-threat-or-menace-part-4.html
"So that's all there is to Autopilot. No radar, no lidar, no GPS, no map, no geofencing, no proper driver monitoring. It just uses the camera to follow the lines. It doesn't disengage if it can't see the lines, it just keeps going."