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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-05-12 We; + A Guess at the State of the Plague in India, & the Right Wing Long Con First: A Snippet from a Dialogue: The Current Plague in India: Axiothea: How much worse are things in India than the statistics the Indian government is reporting say? Parmenides: We do think that here in the United States we have had 900,000 rather than 600,000 deaths—out of a total caseload of perhaps 60 million, perhaps 120 million. How bad are things in India right now, really? And how bad are they going to get? Aesclepius: We do not know. We guess that true plague deaths are between three and eight times officially recorded deaths. And we guess that India is only halfway through this current plague wave. Axiothea: If so, note that India currently is at 200 reported deaths per million—say the true number is 1000, 0.1% of the population, and it is going to double before this wave is through. With a population of 1.4 billion, that would be 3 million dead by the time this wave ebbs… The Right-Wing Short Con: With America’s right wing, it is always, always the grift. Always: Paul Campos: Josh Hawley,...

Microblogging... - Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Collecting Things of þe Moment, & from the Chat...

Merry Christmas, Everyone! - Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

Microblogging: Stable Diffusion is trying its best...

A High Five for Team The-Fed-Has-Got-This

A draft of a column for Project Syndicate

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-12-24 Sa

Things Þt Went Whizzing by...

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Once Again, Far-Left Meets Far-Right: Adherents to the Party of Killer Robots & Kleptocracy

For 2022-12-22

Michael Hiltzik INTERVIEW on “Slouching Towards Utopia"

2022-10-04 Tu

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-12-23 Fr

Things Þt Went Whizzing by...

Perhaps Stochastic Parrots Are Somewhat Intentional?

For 2022-12-23 Fr

READING: Tristan Bove: Why You Should Be Happy About Inflation & Worried About Something Else, Top Economist Brad DeLong Says

The occasion of my first—albeit low-wattage, in both senses—twitter mob. From 2022-09-17

When Will Interest Rates Stop Rising? Now Would Be Good, & BRIEFLY NOTED

For 2022-12-21 We

Nick Lichtenberg: Interviews Brad DeLong in Fortune

Top economist Brad DeLong speaks on student debt, NIMBYism, inflation and his new book on our economy slouching towards dystopia BYNICK LICHTENBERG September 5, 2022 at 4:00 AM PDT GENEVIEVE SCHIFFRAR; COURTESY OF BRAD DELONG

Tristan Bove: Interviews Brad DeLong

2022-09-17: Why you should be happy about inflation and worried about something else, top economist Brad DeLong says...

The Long 20th Century Comes to a Shuddering End: In Foreign Policy

A slightly-edited version of the middle third of the conclusion :: 2022-10-02 Su

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLV: Information Goods & þe Measurement of Economic Growth, wiþ Special Guest John Quiggin

Listen now (49 min) | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Semi-Weekly; Aspirationally an hour or less.

PROJECT SYNDICATE: When the Fed Stops Trying

2022-09-30 Fr

Ryan Avent: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” from “The Bellows"

Sep 9, 2022

Timothy Noah: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” in “The New Republic"

September 12, 2022

Elon Musk Does Not Look Like He Is Rage-Tweeting to Me…, & BRIEFLY NOTED

For 2022-12-19 Mo

Ryan Avent: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” in “The Economist"

Sep 8th 2022

Interview: Dylan Matthews at “Vox"

Sep 7, 2022

Annie Lowrey: Interview/Profile in “The Atlantic"

Sep 3, 2022

ChatGPT Is NOT Going to Replace Google!, BRIEFLY NOTED

2022-12-18 Su

Interview: With James Ledbetter at “The Observer"

Sep 6, 2022

Contra Vince Reinhart: The Fed Has Done Very Well Indeed!, & BRIEFLY NOTED:

For 2022-12-17 Sa

LECTURE NOTES: 75,000 Years of Human Population & Average Income, & BRIEFLY NOTED

For 2022-12-16 Fr

Twitter on Fire!, & BRIEFLY NOTED

For 2022-12-16b Fr

READING: W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming"

January 1919

LECTURE NOTES: 75,000 Years of Human Population & Average Income

Should this be given in lecture? Or assigned as reading?

Industrial Strategy for a Rich, Leading-Edge, Economy, & BRIEFLY NOTED

For 2022-12-14 We

READING: Noah Smith Interviews Ezra Klein

2022-12-14 We

In Which Long-Time Netizen & Programmer-at-Arms Dave Winer Records a Podcast for Me, Personally

2022-12-15 Th

Our Ancestors Thought We'd Build an Economic Paradise. Instead We Got 2022

“Slouching Towards Utopia” Time Magazine launch piece; commissioned by Lucas Wittman

Small People Dealing wiþ Looming Fascism, BRIEFLY NOTED

For 2022-12-13 Tu

Þe "Washington Post" Decides Þt It No Longer Has to Fear þe Blogosphere. Do Hijinks Ensue?, & BRIEFLY NOTED

CONDITION: A Very Nice Review of Slouching from John Quiggin! John Quiggin: The slow demise of neoliberalism: ‘How the all-conquering movement contained the seeds of its own destruction… Order Slouching Towards Utopia

Possible? Introduction to “History of Economic Growth”, & BRIEFLY NOTED

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