Crazy how Gavekal research, quoted on Adam Tooze's newsletter, is sounding kinda socialist. Gavekal does research "mainly for the use of institutional investors." end/
...Or have we now evolved into Warren Buffett’s dystopian 'sharecropper society' where the consumption of capital is passed off as growth? This is what John Kenneth Galbraith famously described as the 'bezzle.'" ... 2/
"In other words, the management fees of the private asset industry will equal almost a third of nominal US GDP growth. Does this pass the smell test?... 1/
Eu morei no Rio por um ano, em Copa, e ainda falou mais ou menos Português. Tudo bem?
Despite its flaws the public university system is a jewel of civilization and the worst finance-brained losers on earth want to kill it for good
But, for the most part, they’re just engaging in shit like regulatory arbitrage. A ton of Silicon Valley investment boils down to “identify a regulated industry. Introduce an unregulated, direct competitor. Profit now, pay some fines later.” That’s not arcane knowledge. It isn’t even a new idea!
Always grateful for The American Vandal podcast and @mattseybold.bsky.social telling it like it is.
That Pomona piece in The Chronicle is bonkers, right? As many people have pointed out, there’s probably another side to the story. Well, in a way, that side is @kwazana.bsky.social “The Shush” & this Vandal episode she made with @thisblue.bsky.social & I in 2021. 1/5
The future of the English Department cannot be the same as its past.
Artnet has a fantastic podcast, The Art Angle; check out recent episodes with the psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, artist Joshua Citarella, and some lady theorist of immediacy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Arts · 2024
We aren’t here to learn what we already know, Kyla Wazana Tompkins — avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2016/09/13/w...
What is a good question? And, how do we teach students to work at writing good questions? In my feminist and queer theories class, a core course in the Gender and Women’s Studies curriculum that I’…