gold and ammo age is what he meant.

this is the “You’re fired!” presidency.

ah! makes sense.

i get that. the bits that threw me were devils in details. if gold is mostly monetary and excluded, why is it mooted as an explanation for GDP now and expected to show up in inventories? shouldn’t tariff-inspired gold movement be basically all monetary? it wouldn’t change production input demand?

freeze frozen.

we are pioneering a new economic system: casino feudalism

i think all social media posts should begin with a land acknowledgment that blogs were here first and sincere expressions of contrition for colonizing the place and destroying the culture.

reagan: peace through strength trump: peace through perfidy

there’s actually a lot i don’t quite get in this piece. maybe we’ll chat about it? the issues surrounding distinguishing current goods from existing assets, in general and wrt gold/“monetary gold”, seemed very much up your alley.

disparity is surely evidence of discrimination. that’s their thing, right?

i watched the whole thing…

This must not happen. ht @faineg.bsky.social @doriantaylor.com www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

this administration just DGAF about derelictions of commitments the United States had previously taken on, even when such derelictions are literally and quite immediately deadly. USAID stop-works, ending intelligence sharing with Ukraine including air defense assistance, all have body counts.

cc @steveroth.bsky.social by @jwmason.bsky.social jwmason.org/slackwire/ne...

i’ve had my issues with ActBlue, but debilitating Democratic fundraising infrastructure would be an obvious “competitive authoritarian” play. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

i feel like if they fire me and then decide they want me back they should beg my forgiveness and lure me with a nice raise.

gives me a headache too!

i have no confidence this administration will do anything useful with a SWF. but as a general, political economy matter, i do think it quite useful that they’re means by which a state can hoover up capital income at an accelerating rate without having to continually increase capital tax rates.

truth social could totally win the social media game if they formatted “truths” as notes with each letter cut out from a magazine and pasted in place, like ransom notes or a serial killer’s taunt in old movies.