Load up on verification cans because the companies who got away with flaunting EU advertising/tracking laws will get away with obnoxious ad-driven AI too. (The cookie consent banners that you see everywhere were…
Need? A committee of the dumbest software on your pc/phone will get together to tell you what you need, and they have decided you need tin-can audio quality so that the microphone can be active so that AT&T spyware…
"It's not a search unless we found something." - FISA courts, re: 4th Amendment
These are ~1000-word stories (prompts at [1]), squarely in the sweet spot where planning logistics are minimal, context windows comfortably fit everything, and the appropriate level of abstraction omits any details…
Yes, I saw that too, it was quite remarkable. Still, learned helplessness would have us believe that such an appointment was impossible and yet it happened, and it happened in a Democratic party that leaned "more lib…
> our government works for corporations instead of the public Yes, but we cheat ourselves out of change with learned helplessness. Did you see how much hatred the business community directed at Lina Khan when she…
You get what you pay for. If you want to think harder and get more, https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attention-qk/index.htm...
You're missing that the T-bills are replacing exports (including services) that would otherwise have had to happen to support the imports, and that the latter employs people while the former doesn't. The benefit is to…
Taxing capital? Impossible! Obscene! Everyone knows that only labor can/should be taxed.
A current account deficit is a capital account surplus. We can pay for imports with things we make or things we own. To a first approximation, making things employs people and owning things does not. If we pay with…
> people have a baseline of goods they must consume for survival (housing, food etc.), and once that baseline is reached spending does not fall further Oh boy, do I have news for you. It is in fact possible to run out…
The fact that the dumbest president in American history is bad at industrial policy does not mean that industrial policy cannot or should not be done.
The limiting factor on deploying capital abroad was never the ability to move gold or even equipment, it was the ability to have faith that over many years the remote authorities would continue to enforce your remotely…
No, Average Joe (Median Joe) is not a shareholder, asset appreciation is not a meaningful fraction of his income so policies which dump labor to pump capital hurt Average Joe on net by a wide margin. Shareholders are…
The balance of trade accounts for "export of computer services," because of course it does, and the account is in deficit in spite of these, because of course it is. The insane thing is that you tried to offer this…
Absolutely not! The word "investment" according to most definitions in most economics classes would encompass the activity of merging together all of the companies in a sector for mega rent extraction. They would even…
Just because the dumbest president in American History can't do industrial policy doesn't mean that industrial policy can't or shouldn't be done.
Ricardo's comparative advantage result is contingent on the assumption that capital is not mobile across borders. This was a good assumption in 1817. Is it a good assumption today? Furthermore, he's very up front about…
No, bringing the price of 50" 4k TVs down to $300 does not make up for lost jobs. That's an easy choice, which is why it was never presented to the American worker but rather foisted upon us by shareholders in pursuit…
An actual plan would look like the IIJA, IRA, CHIPS Act -- what Biden was doing, but act larger scale. The problem with globalization is not that free trade failed to create a surplus, it's that 150% of the surplus went…
Yes, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't know that and thinks flapping between protectionism and TACO is a brilliant strategy for achieving the best of both worlds rather than an idiotic strategy guaranteed to result in the…
A current account deficit is a capital account surplus. Persistent deficits shift the balance between Asset vs Export sectors, dumping the export sector and pumping the asset sector. Put differently, we can pay for…
> First, give Donald Trump some credit. He promised to restore order to the border, and he did. ...after threatening to primary anyone who voted for Senator Lankford's (R-OK) asylum reform bill in Feb 2024 because he…
It took over a century to go from Oliver Twist to the broad Post-WWII Middle Class. How long this time?
You are undertaking motivated reasoning to dodge culpability. The transfer of money from house-seekers -- many of whom do more to establish the community you are touting than yourself -- to your own pockets is not…
Load up on verification cans because the companies who got away with flaunting EU advertising/tracking laws will get away with obnoxious ad-driven AI too. (The cookie consent banners that you see everywhere were…
Need? A committee of the dumbest software on your pc/phone will get together to tell you what you need, and they have decided you need tin-can audio quality so that the microphone can be active so that AT&T spyware…
"It's not a search unless we found something." - FISA courts, re: 4th Amendment
These are ~1000-word stories (prompts at [1]), squarely in the sweet spot where planning logistics are minimal, context windows comfortably fit everything, and the appropriate level of abstraction omits any details…
Yes, I saw that too, it was quite remarkable. Still, learned helplessness would have us believe that such an appointment was impossible and yet it happened, and it happened in a Democratic party that leaned "more lib…
> our government works for corporations instead of the public Yes, but we cheat ourselves out of change with learned helplessness. Did you see how much hatred the business community directed at Lina Khan when she…
You get what you pay for. If you want to think harder and get more, https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attention-qk/index.htm...
You're missing that the T-bills are replacing exports (including services) that would otherwise have had to happen to support the imports, and that the latter employs people while the former doesn't. The benefit is to…
Taxing capital? Impossible! Obscene! Everyone knows that only labor can/should be taxed.
A current account deficit is a capital account surplus. We can pay for imports with things we make or things we own. To a first approximation, making things employs people and owning things does not. If we pay with…
> people have a baseline of goods they must consume for survival (housing, food etc.), and once that baseline is reached spending does not fall further Oh boy, do I have news for you. It is in fact possible to run out…
The fact that the dumbest president in American history is bad at industrial policy does not mean that industrial policy cannot or should not be done.
The limiting factor on deploying capital abroad was never the ability to move gold or even equipment, it was the ability to have faith that over many years the remote authorities would continue to enforce your remotely…
No, Average Joe (Median Joe) is not a shareholder, asset appreciation is not a meaningful fraction of his income so policies which dump labor to pump capital hurt Average Joe on net by a wide margin. Shareholders are…
The balance of trade accounts for "export of computer services," because of course it does, and the account is in deficit in spite of these, because of course it is. The insane thing is that you tried to offer this…
Absolutely not! The word "investment" according to most definitions in most economics classes would encompass the activity of merging together all of the companies in a sector for mega rent extraction. They would even…
Just because the dumbest president in American History can't do industrial policy doesn't mean that industrial policy can't or shouldn't be done.
Ricardo's comparative advantage result is contingent on the assumption that capital is not mobile across borders. This was a good assumption in 1817. Is it a good assumption today? Furthermore, he's very up front about…
No, bringing the price of 50" 4k TVs down to $300 does not make up for lost jobs. That's an easy choice, which is why it was never presented to the American worker but rather foisted upon us by shareholders in pursuit…
An actual plan would look like the IIJA, IRA, CHIPS Act -- what Biden was doing, but act larger scale. The problem with globalization is not that free trade failed to create a surplus, it's that 150% of the surplus went…
Yes, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't know that and thinks flapping between protectionism and TACO is a brilliant strategy for achieving the best of both worlds rather than an idiotic strategy guaranteed to result in the…
A current account deficit is a capital account surplus. Persistent deficits shift the balance between Asset vs Export sectors, dumping the export sector and pumping the asset sector. Put differently, we can pay for…
> First, give Donald Trump some credit. He promised to restore order to the border, and he did. ...after threatening to primary anyone who voted for Senator Lankford's (R-OK) asylum reform bill in Feb 2024 because he…
It took over a century to go from Oliver Twist to the broad Post-WWII Middle Class. How long this time?
You are undertaking motivated reasoning to dodge culpability. The transfer of money from house-seekers -- many of whom do more to establish the community you are touting than yourself -- to your own pockets is not…