@dylanmatt.bsky.social it's, um, not so great you used a 2022 analysis near US peak inflation to claim "economists…attributed abt 3 percentage points of inflation to excessive stimulus", when from 2021-01 to 2024-11 the US experience was about the same as the EU and Eurozone on OECD numbers. 1/
"overall price increases could have been reduced, perhaps even halved." is also misleading, since the peak you claim might have halved was quite narrow. again, given global experience since 2022, this analysis on which your diagnosis of Biden's failure largely hangs, strikes me as tendentious. 2/
Re www.vox.com/politics/394... ht @akkartik.name My OECD numbers from data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?lc=en&pg... accessed 2025-01-19 (Overall OECD inflation, and OECD Europe, were much higher than the US, but that's largely Turkey, less comparable.) /fin
The president who could not choose
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thank you copilot. all i want is excel on my frigging desktop.
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it would be funny if what happens is Trump baits firms like Oracle into violating the law and then fines them hundreds of billions and they're like we had assurances and the courts are like don't you have lawyers? the money would be enough to put a dent in a year's deficit!
we didn't actually object to the oppression. we just objected to who got to be the oppressor.
i spent a few years among idealistic cryptocurrency types. in drips and increments, the pull of payoffs drained the idealism, in my view. nevertheless, i hope to see some reflections by cryptocurrency thinkers on how $TRUMP relates to the early ideals of the community.
living in America when you consider it unethical to use products from X, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, TikTok, Amazon, Starbucks. one thing it does is sow marital discord.
"concerns remain"
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Wouldn't it be more compelling if they just had an image of Donald Trump looking tough and noble as a full-page splash screen on launch of the app? pixel.kitchen/@jenn/113856...
i’m not a fan of the TikTok ban as public policy, but all of a sudden i do gotta hand it to Tom Cotton because rule of law.
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remember when the founders imagined each branch of government would be jealous of its prerogatives?
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just for the cognitive dissonance, it’s worth noting it’s not just billionaires and greedy capitalist businesses. if you listened to his #LexFridman interview, Zelensky also was going out of his way to flatter Trump. understandable, but it always is. arguably more forgivable under the circumstances.
not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a TikTok.
will Apple restore ByteDance apps in the app store without an Act of Congress legalizing it?
“dictator on day one”
$TRUMP is the first crypto coin that has a real shot at being currency-like, because it’s the first crypto coin for which there’s a credible threat the coercive power of the state might be used to engender demand.
i can’t believe how much the fate of the republic might turn on the TikTok ban. if Trump issues an Executive Order, firms like Apple decide they face greater risk defying Trump than violating black-letter law, and Congress does nothing, he’s successfully dictated, that’s dictatorship.
there is no such thing as the vibe so it cannot actually shift.
only Congress can fix this. (assuming the Constitution and rule-of-law still apply)
autobiography as much as politics, @phillmv.bsky.social is amazing and i’m delighted to learn so much about them. okayfail.com/2025/i-met-p...