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  • 7 Best Studio Photography Setups for Portrait Photographers in 2025
  • Best Museums In Munich: Art, Science, And History Highlights
  • The Importance of Financial Education in Modern Business
  • Understanding Charge Air Coolers in Modern Engines
  • 6 Above Ground Pond Ideas for Small and Large Spaces
  • Gamified Slots: Missions, Levels, and More Ways to Win
  • How to Choose What Language to Learn
  • Best Promotional Products for Online Sellers
  • Warehouse Racking: The Backbone of Smart Storage Solutions
  • Munich’s Top Strip Clubs and Adult Entertainment Venues

RSS Left Foot Forward

  • Musk’s tirade against Spain’s prime minister backfires
  • From Jim Ratcliffe to the Ballot Box: How offshore billionaires still shape British politics
  • Charities pull together to highlight the link between climate issues and poverty and hunger
  • Rupert Lowe asks High Court to block parliamentary watchdog investigation
  • Hannah Spencer: ‘We need more people who do jobs like mine in Parliament’
  • Unite the union slams BAE systems for making ‘obscene’ profits while offering a raw deal to workers
  • Robert Jenrick left speechless after Jon Sopel takes him apart for his political hypocrisy
  • Reform UK suspends by-election campaign manager over racist and antisemitic posts
  • Expelled Reform Kent County councillors join Rupert Lowe’s rival hard-right party
  • Keir Starmer slams Reform’s plans to scrap Equalities Act as anti-British and shocking

RSS Pickled Politics

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RSS Crooked Timber

  • The US state has proved itself dispensable
  • Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 1
  • Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road
  • Runciman’s Rawls
  • The Stone Pillars of the Sons of Seth
  • A modest proposal for the use of AI
  • Occasional reason to be cheerful: Babies
  • A big thank you …
  • 20th anniversary of the Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican.
  • Sunday photoblogging: Cumberland Basin

RSS Fistful of Euros

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RSS Lawyers, Guns and Money

  • The taxes will increase until morale improves
  • LGM Film Club, Part 433: Bacurau
  • I wanna kiss you all over
  • Pay to play in John Roberts’s America
  • The Labor Movement Makes You Brave
  • The Moral Rot of Trumpism
  • Week 57
  • Karen and Bill’s American vacation
  • The Tariff Defeat

RSS Though Cowards Flinch

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RSS Lenin’s Tomb

  • On Fetish
  • Identity, love and death
  • Racism and child sexual abuse
  • Dropping like bees
  • Playing Dead
  • The parliamentary state of mind
  • On the Twelfth
  • Kafka's Castle
  • Labour and immigration
  • You are living in a death cult.

RSS A Very Public Sociologist

  • Reform's Toryism
  • On Andrew's Arrest
  • What I've Been Reading Recently
  • What is the Point of Keir Starmer?
  • A Farewell to Morgan McSweeney
  • From Your Party to the Greens
  • Suitable for the Job
  • The Unmaking of Mandelson
  • Five Most Popular Posts in January
  • Local Council By-Elections January 2026

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RSS John Q Publican

  • Not anymore
  • Generation GAP
  • Good day
  • Short Term Thinking IV
  • Short Term Thinking III
  • Short Term Thinking II
  • We’re Off…
  • Short Term Thinking I
  • Electoral reform
  • Clegg-iscite II

RSS Ministry of Truth

  • The fabricated porn statistic that wouldn’t die.
  • Is There a “Fixed, Biological Basis for Gender Identity”?
  • Debunking the Bimodal “Sex Spectrum” Graph
  • Pubertal Suppression and the Tavistock Study – More Questions than Answers
  • Why Jolyon Maugham should stick to battering foxes
  • Decriminalising Abortion won’t be like getting Jane Austen on the £10 Note.
  • Superheroes, Sci-Fi and the “insert minority here” trope.
  • Decoding Sony’s leaked Spider-Man Memo (Pt. 1)
  • How Moving the TV Money Goalposts cost Burnley FC £1.2 million last season.
  • Premier League TV Money: Not Quite As Equitable as They’d Like You to Think.

RSS D Squared Digest

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RSS Bad Science

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RSS Dr Petra

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RSS Stumbling and Mumbling

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RSS Touchstone Blog

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RSS Flip Chart Fairy Tales

  • The Conservatives are on course for the beating they deserve
  • The Great Decoupling and the end of the Golden Arches
  • Levelling Up: the role payed by disappearing occupational pensions
  • The 2020s: Disruption? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
  • Labour’s problem is not the Red Wall – it’s the Grey Wall
  • Jenrick’s conjuring trick
  • Corporate purpose: a new dawn or a defensive ruse?
  • Brexit bureaucracy – it’s not a bug, it’s a feature
  • The outcry over LTNs is not a culture war – it’s more serious than that
  • The almost-but-not-quite recovery

RSS Blood and Treasure

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RSS The Yorkshire Ranter

  • Drone Teardown
  • A little more
  • Russia, Ukraine, and Highgate
  • a case study of troll-host symbiosis
  • Me, Me, Me? In Search of Community
  • The monarchy as a content-marketing operation
  • Links on the crisis of responsibility
  • All that was missing was the colour
  • Three Matt Hancocks
  • A big conversation on seagulls, and after

RSS Britmouse

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RSS IOZ

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RSS Phil Dickens

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RSS Obsolete

  • The end.
  • Here we go gathering nuts in July.
  • Our worst post-war prime minister.
  • Eagle and May: the absurdity intensifies.
  • Leadsom balloon.
  • Chilcot.
  • The monster always ends up killing its creator.
  • Bargaining chips.
  • Day 94 of the Labour leadership coup...
  • The state of this absolute fucking shower.

RSS Paul Sagar

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RSS Hopi Sen

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RSS Political Scrapbook

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RSS Nosemonkey EUtopia

  • The problem with thought leadership isn’t due to GenAI
  • The AI content debate continues
  • GenAI continues to make major errors in news summaries
  • On GenAI writing styles – again…
  • On systems thinking and why strategies fail

RSS Owen

  • Race report: Tallinn Ironman Middle Distance Triathlon (113km) – August 2025
  • Why we need government digital identities and how to do it safely
  • Are we ‘freeloading’ on US innovation?
  • Age verification as digital public infrastructure
  • Do not use text messages for 2-factor authentication if you can avoid it
  • The bike bus
  • Rishi Sunak and the legacy of Nigel Lawson
  • Devex on Precision Development
  • Rising prices are not what is making us poor
  • Time for a “Love Actually” moment

RSS Guardian: Global Development

  • Botswana’s diamond-funded health system has failed: it needs to be reformed and rebuilt | Duma Gideon Boko
  • Corruption is no longer envelopes of cash – now it is about who is being shielded and who is being sacrificed | Kenneth Mohammed
  • Charities fear millions in Ramadan giving will not reach crisis zones as UK Muslim groups ‘debanked’
  • ‘The goal has been to demystify’: how a colonial Nairobi library was restored and given back to the people
  • A rare chronicle of war, survival and devastation in Darfur – in pictures
  • ‘Invisible’ children born in the brothels of Bangladesh finally get birth certificates
  • ‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy
  • Cricket, football, athletics: the Caribbean’s sporting success is extraordinary – so why does it feel like a missed opportunity? | Kenneth Mohammed
  • Traditional food could help reverse Nepal’s ‘diabetes epidemic’, studies suggest
  • Ultrarunners in secondhand trainers: the rickshaw drivers taking on the world’s toughest races – photo essay

RSS Freemania

  • Blogging off
  • The meaning of a vote
  • Victory in Europe
  • Do leadership ratings matter more in the run-up to an election?
  • Dear Scotland
  • Politeness and the invention of time travel
  • Help to Sell
  • A polling analogy: 2001-05 and 2010-15
  • The emptiness and the irrelevance of the legal case for bombing Syria
  • The paradox of forward guidance

RSS Norm Geras

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RSS Flying Rodent

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RSS Laurie Penny

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RSS Tabloid Watch

  • From 'Arctic gales' to 'scorching sunshine'...
  • EC in UK challenges Mail article on Europol - but paper removes key points from letter
  • The PCC and the MailOnline's publication of 'clearly inappropriate' creepshots
  • Mail on Sunday corrects minaret claim
  • Scottish Mail apologises over asylum claims
  • The Star's misleading X Factor splash
  • Star illustrates new story with photo from 2008
  • The Mail, the BBC and Thatcher 'bias'
  • MailOnline falls for April Fool's Day story
  • The Sun's prison/hospital confusion

RSS Steven Baxter

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RSS Angry Mob

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RSS Five Chinese Crackers

  • What happened to the foreign job theives?
  • I'll have a racist 99 please!
  • Bulgarian government, Bulgarian TV station or British Sunday tabloid?
  • Toby Young - not much better than Delingpole
  • James Delingpole - not very good
  • Frumpy A-Levels! 5 bits of advice for those who didn't do so well
  • No offence
  • The more things change...
  • Crackers SMASH!
  • What about the existing evidence on Hunt?

RSS Jack of Kent

  • I have moved!

RSS David Allen Green

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RSS Suggy’s Blog

  • The strange death of conservative England?
  • Plebiscites: poisoning the well of democracy
  • A short note on the perils of political predictions
  • Syria and the pessimistic imagination
  • Economics and education
  • Milne on the USSR
  • Corbyn and the SNP's new playbook
  • Reclaim the centre
  • Indyref v2.0?
  • Corbyn-mania and the SNP: beyond left and right

RSS A Don’s Life

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RSS Tim Worstall

  • Isn’t this strange?
  • Never knew this I didn’t
  • Because it’s Arabs slaughtering darkies mate, that’s why
  • I know we talk about this but…..
  • Will Spud speak out?
  • Well, yes, we knew this, right?
  • Punished might not be the right word. Filtered perhaps?
  • Well, yes
  • These would, of course, be part of any properly fascist state
  • Could be, could be

RSS Adam Smith Institute

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RSS Alex Massie

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RSS A Very British Dude

  • Montgomery Brewster's 'None of the Above' would walk this election.
  • Whales are more Important to Climate change than Donald Trump.
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
  • Minimum Wages, Immigration, Culture and Education.
  • Why the Blue Passport Matters.
  • Nicola and Theresa. Phwooar.
  • On Class, Culture and the New Politics
  • Tories have profoundly damaged the UK. You Should Join the Tories.
  • The End of A 'Belle Époque'. 1991-2016.
  • Boston Dynamics and The Late Sir Terry Pratchett

RSS Thomas Byrne

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RSS Heresy Corner

  • The Jihadist
  • "Forced Caesarian": the Mother's story, and the Judge's
  • What David Cameron can learn from schoolgirls and soccer moms
  • In the modern schoolyard, being an Evangelical Christian is just so gay
  • Selling Downton to the Chinese
  • So what is Paul Dacre playing at?
  • Why a decline in smoking led to the smoking ban
  • Springtime for Godfrey
  • David Attenborough's Population Problem
  • Web filtering - making the best of a bad job

RSS Heresiarch’s Dungeon

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RSS Laban Tall

  • Your Tax Money At Work - Catholic Priest Murdered By Syrian Opposition
  • "measures which will make a practical difference to the situation on the ground in Syria"
  • We Shall Not Look Upon Her Like Again
  • Underclass News
  • Are We Doomed?
  • Plan B - "Reinflate The Housing Bubble !"
  • The UK Left Are The Lapdogs Of The Capitalist Elite
  • "Haven't we all done things we regret when we were young?"
  • "Obama said he would strengthen the middle class and introduce immigration reform"
  • Some Start To Get It ...

RSS The Freethinker

  • Interview with Richard Carrier: The Quest for the Historical Jesus Part 1—Historical Method and the Question of Jesus
  • A Thought for Darwin Day: The Perfect Scam
  • The shameful legacy of the archbishops of Canterbury, old and new
  • Books from Bob’s Library #9: ‘My Godforsaken Life’ by Barbara Smoker
  • Image of the week: ‘The Iranian Genie’, by Polyp
  • Thought for Today: There’s nothing intelligent about ‘intelligent design’
  • Books from Bob’s Library #8: our friend ‘The Truth Seeker’
  • Freethought History Webinar #8: Annie Besant, Secularist and Feminist. With Lucie Lemieux (3 March 2026).
  • Iran: On Power, Inheritance, and the Disciplining of Women’s Bodies
  • Sharia patrols do colossal harm to legal Muslim immigrants in the West

RSS London Music Blog

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RSS Open Mind

  • Global Temperature Update
  • Trump: Delusional and Stupid
  • Hit and Run
  • How Bonferroni goes wrong
  • Bad Science on Sea Level
  • Sea Level Rise in the U.S.A.
  • U.S. Government makes old lies new again
  • Sea Level Rise in NYC
  • Sea Level Mis-information from DOE
  • The Air they Breathe

RSS Skeptical Science

  • 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #08
  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #8 2026
  • Introducing the Climate Brink Dashboard
  • Trump just torched the basis for federal climate regulations. Here’s what it means.
  • Climate Adam - Climate Scientist Reacts to AI Overlords
  • 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #07
  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #7 2026
  • These key strategies could help Americans get rid of their cars
  • Fact brief - Can nearby solar farms reduce property values?
  • Sea otters are California’s climate heroes

RSS Guardian Datablog

  • Fewer one night stands, more AI lovers: the data behind generation Z’s sex lives
  • Ground zero: rain-starved southern Australia is grappling with one of the worst droughts in memory
  • Cost of living explorer 2025: track the impact of Australia’s quarterly CPI on prices
  • Preferences are more important than ever this election. See where Australian voters sent theirs last time
  • Not enough houses are being built in Australia, and Labor has promised 1.2m more. Here’s what needs to happen
  • Egg prices have quadrupled, chicken has doubled: the cost of US inflation in 10 items
  • Plane crashes have people freaked out – but here’s what US data for 2025 shows
  • More than 80% of new California properties are in high fire-risk areas
  • More than 100 journalists were killed this year – over half of them in Palestine
  • The Australian government will force some shops to accept cash. So who still uses it, and why?

RSS Paul Krugman

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RSS Brad DeLong

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RSS Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

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RSS The Money Illusion

  • A long strange trip
  • Magic dust (a fable)
  • Are we moving toward fiscal dominance?
  • An American economic miracle?
  • Jeffrey Ding on China
  • Yglesias on political sorting
  • The final nail for fiscal dominance?
  • Fifty to one on job growth?
  • Hanania on the GOP
  • Bayesian analysis

RSS David Beckworth

  • Storytelling: Friday Chart Edition
  • The Fed's New Framework
  • A Twitter Thread on Interest Rate Determination
  • Make-Up Policy: Where Art Thou?
  • NGDP Targeting in the United Kingdom
  • The Public Finance Implications of COVID-19
  • Extensions to the NGDP Gap
  • Assorted Macro Musings
  • The Decline of the 10-Year Treasury: Implications for Fed Policy
  • Allan Meltzer's Life Work

RSS David Glasner

  • Grok, Karoline Leavitt and Me
  • Hicks on Temporary Equilibrium
  • Thoughts and Details on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
  • My Article “Ralph Hawtrey: A Forgotten Pioneer of Macroeconomics” Has Been Published in Economic Affairs
  • My New Paper on Hawtrey Is Available on SSRN
  • T. C. Koopmans Demolishes the Phillips Curve as a Guide to Policy
  • Mattei Misjudges Hawtrey
  • Hetzel Withholds Credit from Hawtrey for his Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression
  • Central Banking and the Real-Bills Doctrine
  • Ralph Hawtrey, Part 1: An Overview of his Career

RSS Lars Christiensen

  • Too Big to Save: Fannie and Freddie’s Dangerous Tech Bet
  • Investing in a Time of Crisis: When Three Storms Converge on Global Markets
  • Measuring Political Violence in America: A Language Model Experiment
  • ARGENTINA FIRST: MAKING BAIL OUTS GREAT AGAIN
  • The Fed’s Drifting Anchor
  • US inflation acceleration – a lot faster than you might think
  • The Giltquake: Are you ready for a UK sovereign debt crisis?
  • The Fed Under Siege: The Erdoğan Playbook Comes to Washington
  • America’s Kamikaze Fund: Why Buying Overpriced Shares Could Trigger a Bond Meltdown
  • Red Hat Socialism: Buy High, Borrow Higher

RSS Kantoos Economics

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RSS Matthew Yglesias

  • This Terrible New Olympic Event Must Be Exiled From the Games Forever
  • The Saddest Winter Olympian Just Couldn’t Stop Falling
  • My Ex Gave Our Boys Burner Phones for a Nefarious Reason. This Is Not “Harmless Fun.”
  • My Wife Swears I Did Something “Terrible” on Valentine’s Day. I Think I’m the One Who’s Owed an Apology.
  • Slate Pears Game 189: Feb. 21, 2026
  • Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They’re Actually Like.
  • One of the Olympics’ Biggest Stars Is at the Center of a Bizarre Intra-Squad Drama
  • Trump Betrayed the MAHA Movement This Week. RFK Jr.’s Reaction Was Telling.
  • Planet Money: The Book: The Episode
  • Texas Is Prosecuting a Midwife for Abortion. Its Case Is Already Falling Apart.

RSS Duncan Black

  • Saturday Evening
  • Keep Talking
  • Hamster Treat Button
  • Seems Bad
  • A Tax On Patriotic American Companies
  • Morning
  • Happy Hour
  • I Guess We're Still Doing This
  • Security And Confidentiality
  • America's Worst Humans

RSS Modeled Behavior

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RSS Noahpinion

  • Noahpinion has moved to a new website!
  • Rabbit = Good Friend (or, how to take care of rabbits)
  • Why Kevin Williamson is wrong about poverty and bad behavior
  • The Middle Eastern Thirty Years War?
  • Examining an MMT model in detail
  • Where should Americans live if they live abroad?
  • Guest post: Roy Bahat on Uber, Lyft, and the future of work
  • A proposal for an Alternative Green New Deal
  • Book Review: The Revolt of the Public, by Martin Gurri
  • Book Review: "The Souls of Yellow Folk," by Wesley Yang

RSS Knowing and Making

  • The dilemma of advice
  • Dead rats and dopamine - a new publication
  • How to debunk an electoral fraud claim
  • Predictions for the next decade in Behavioral Science
  • Am I the person Dominic Cummings is looking for? A followup to The Times
  • Other writers on System 3
  • Book review: Alchemy, by Rory Sutherland
  • From Behavioral to Cognitive Pricing
  • What is cognitive economics?
  • Why endings matter [spoiler-free Game of Thrones references]

RSS Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • The Man Who Freed Me From Cant
  • Donald Trump Is Out. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?
  • I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
  • Why I'm Writing Captain America
  • Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War
  • Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
  • ‘It’s Impossible to Imagine Trump Without the Force of Whiteness'
  • The First White President
  • The Lost Cause Rides Again
  • How Insightful Is Dear White People?

RSS Matt Taibbi

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RSS Marginal Revolution

  • How to make sense of the U.S. Iran strategy
  • Gaurav Ahuja interviews me
  • Saturday assorted links
  • Why the “Lesser Included Action” Argument for IEEPA Tariffs Fails
  • A Republic, if you can keep it
  • South Africa facts of the day
  • I podcast on Spain and Latin America
  • The Great Forgetting, a continuing series
  • Friday assorted links
  • GPT as a Measurement Tool

RSS Will Wilkinson

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RSS Econlog

  • Friedman on Immigration: Setting the Record Straight
  • AI, Technology, and Work
  • Learning the Bitter Lesson in 2026
  • Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
  • Show You Care (with Econ)
  • Property Rights and the Arctic Contest
  • Will Commodity Sports Last?
  • A Military Analysis of Israel’s War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)
  • The US is a Small Country
  • EconLog Price Theory: Federal Reserve Revenue

RSS Unlearning Econ

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RSS Jared Bernstein

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RSS Lane Kenworthy

  • An interview and a podcast on “Is Inequality the Problem?”
  • My new book: “Is Inequality the Problem?”
  • Discussion on democracy and well-being
  • Interview on political polarization with Marcus Ruiz Evans
  • Boston Review symposium on equal opportunity, equal outcomes, and flourishing
  • Interview with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
  • Would public ownership be better? Response to John Quiggin
  • Blurbs for “Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?”
  • My new book: “Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?”
  • Two new discussions

RSS Dean Baker

  • Elon Musk Brings 4th Quarter GDP Growth to a Crawl
  • Wrecking the Economy to Destroy the Planet
  • Jesse Jackson: A Tribute
  • Affordability and Health Care Costs
  • RFK Jr.’s Job Performance: Lies That Take Lives
  • More Thoughts on the Jobs Report
  • Jobs Day Eve
  • The Dollar is a Reserve Currency, not the Reserve Currency
  • Trump Rx: It Doesn’t Help Patients, but Gets Trump’s Name on Something  (see correction)
  • Oren Cass Uses Good Economics in Attacking Finance in NYT

RSS Warren Mosler

  • Re: Something I’ve written on the demand filter?
  • THINK BRICS: The Monetary Sovereignty Thesis: Warren Mosler’s Nobel-Worthy Insights
  • You can lead a horse to water, as we often say!
  • Updated blog posts
  • Housing permits and starts, GDP forecast
  • Industrial production, EU trade, miles driven
  • Retail sales, consumer sentiment
  • Commercial real estate leading index, producer prices, consumer prices, jobless claims
  • Employment, GDP Nowcast, oil prices, equity comment
  • ISM services, ADP, oil, trade, Fed Atlanta GDP Now

RSS Naked Capitalism

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RSS Felix Salmon

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RSS Ezra Klein

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RSS Free Exchange

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RSS Vox

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RSS Interfluidity

  • China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not.
  • Yimby, taxes, expertise, state capacity, elections, economy
  • May away
  • March, April
  • February
  • Cold December
  • October, November
  • Round up, wind up
  • Where am I?
  • Excerpts!

RSS Acemoglu and Robinson

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RSS Dani Rodrik

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RSS John Ross

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RSS Andy Harless

  • NGDPLT peg calculations for Q1
  • Official NGDPLT peg calculations for Q42023
  • Advance GDP is out
  • US Nominal GDP Chia Asset Token
  • Touching Base
  • Nothing in Particular
  • Is the Fed's Floor Falling Out?
  • Record Job Openings Not As Impressive As It Sounds
  • Despite Tasci and Ice, I Still See an Increase in Structural Unemployment
  • Stochastic Dynamic Inefficiency, Secular Stagnation, and the Natural Discounted Growth Rate

RSS Mark Thoma

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RSS Overcoming Bias

  • Our Modern Mistake
  • AI is Acceleration
  • Mature Cultural Desire
  • Capitalist ≠ Voluntary
  • Situate Your Essay
  • The Myth of Libertarian Vs Authoritarian
  • Your Deepest Value is Adaption
  • Answered Prayer Seems Implausible
  • Dependence Drives Group Thickness
  • Toward Legible Adaption

RSS Econbrowser

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RSS Calculated Risk

  • This is the End and a New Beginning
  • Sunday Night Futures
  • Hotels: Occupancy Rate Increased 4.4% Year-over-year
  • Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week:Housing Starts Decreased to 1.246 million Annual Rate
  • Schedule for Week of January 11, 2026
  • The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3
  • Fed's Flow of Funds: Household Net Worth Increased $6.1 Trillion in Q3
  • Newsletter: Housing Starts Decreased to 1.246 million Annual Rate in October
  • Housing Starts Decreased to 1.246 million Annual Rate in October
  • Comments on December Employment Report

RSS Baseline Scenario

  • A Few Quick Announcements
  • Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: In Support of a Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports
  • Assessment: Stacey Abrams’ Budget Plan
  • Imposing Sanctions on Russian Energy Exports
  • Quick Housekeeping Note
  • Moving On
  • Leverage
  • The COVID-19 Economy: What Can We Do?
  • COVID-19: Winners and Losers
  • COVID-19: Inequality

RSS Rortybomb

  • Moved Over
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Day: May 6, 2012

Hail France!

A chance, a small chance, France and the whole of Europe might not be screwed.

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Left Outside Posted in Foreign Affairs, Politics Tagged Hollande, Sarkozy
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