Ignoring the rather atrocious main image, this is a quite informative post on the variety of currently existing SWFs from Brad Setser. www.ft.com/content/a651...
Would a state pool of money by any other name smell as sweet?
okay, a democratic campaign playing the battle cry of freedom at a rally is pandering directly to me
āIf we want to prevent the anti-immigrant demagoguery of the Trumpists from being effective, we need immigrants to be the obvious allies of American workers, to be seen as prospective and current union members and not probable scabs.ā someconvenienttree.substack.com/p/there-is-p...
Fascinating (if not wholly unexpected) news!
Bouncing off of Zack Beauchamp's new book, I try to argue the āpromiseā of Trumpism is the end of creative destruction & a new limited access order. āThe MAGA vision of what America should be is a vision of a system of political and economic rents.ā someconvenienttree.substack.com/p/the-reacti...
Scattershot thoughts on Zack Beauchampās new book, the Trump/Vance ticket, and creative destruction
IMO the new Republican platform reading just like Trumpās tweets is key. āLike the campus conservatives I knew who would append āSad!ā to the end of their comments, the Republican Party has begun to speak in Trumpās voice now. And it thinks Trumpās thoughts.ā www.alreporter.com/2024/07/10/o...
The new Republican platform tells every American what to expect from a second Trump term: four more years of government-by-tweet.
"At first glance, it seems like the Supreme Court has reinforced one leg of the āexecutive throneā while whittling away at another. In reality, their goals are far more straightforward." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-courts-a...
The erosion of democratic institutions on behalf of lobbyists, courts, and arbitrary personalism.
āLike a tick swollen almost to bursting with blood, the Supreme Court now rests comfortably with its stolen power, waiting to loan it to a conservative president.ā www.liberalcurrents.com/the-courts-a...
The erosion of democratic institutions on behalf of lobbyists, courts, and arbitrary personalism.
The latest from me in @liberalcurrents.com!
āThey have spent the past decades transferring power away from Congress, away from the rational bureaucracy, and to the lobbyists, the courts, and the personalist presidency.ā www.liberalcurrents.com/the-courts-a...
The erosion of democratic institutions on behalf of lobbyists, courts, and arbitrary personalism.
