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Also wrote about Jeff Bezos' nonsense with the WaPo's Opinion section, and just how fundamentally stupid it is. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/j...

HOW THE AI RACE IS LIKE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROZONE From today's newsletter, on the "bubble" and pursuit of the "fantastic object"

My latest. stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/stimulus-c...

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

My latest. stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/the-us-nee...

My latest. stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/will-the-r...

The multibillionaire CEO of a company that just basically paid $25 million in protection money to the President who had threatened to throw him in prison, wants his staff to know that he can work with the President without compromising their "principles or values." www.theverge.com/command-line...

My latest. stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/are-democr...

The MAGA wing of my family want to challenge my friends to hypothetical bar fights then feel victimized when told to grow the fuck up. The brain damage done by conservative media is beyond measure.

Had to vent some frustration that the same week Zuck whined about how the Biden admin sent some mean emails and that was so unfair, he was literally going over his policy changes with Trump aides to make sure they were cool with it, and that gets no headlines. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/17/a...

Calling @dirkehnts.bsky.social

“Powell’s interest rate hikes, launched in March 2022, had no perceptible effect on growth or employment, hence no plausible role in bringing the inflation rate down. Monetary policy has become an empty set of rituals.” ~James Galbraith www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

This happened 4 years ago today and instead of the instigator being in prison, he's becoming President again. I'll never understand how people voted for a convicted felon. To my American friends my heart breaks for you but you are not alone.

African expert Fadhel Kaboub believes that there is a very simple straightforward explanation why African countries like Nigeria still struggle with poverty and malnutrition. He quite correctly asserts that they were placed in a structural trap by western colonialism dailytrust.com/taxation-pol...

As you hear today's stories about the awful things (internet, social media, smartphones) destroying our minds, remember what was said about reading in bed, chess, biking, and more...

@matt-levine.bsky.social Odd Lots brought me to Money Stuff, but can you please have your audio engineer pitch up your voice an octave or so? It’s so hard to hear your wisdom lost in sub human frequencies!

Waiting for Santa.

I wish more people knew about MMT and @stephaniekelton.bsky.social