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Went to Chicago, where these hot commodities came into my possession.

  • Picture of “The Fiscal Fed How the US Central Bank Funds Government” by Will Bateman and “Greenback — -Empire Global Dollar Dominance and the New Cold War” by Ho-fung Hung
Posted: The kind of fact pattern David Foster Wallace used to rack his brain to invent.Bluesky network
Posted: Looking forward to this!Bluesky network
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This was the right way to think about credit ratings in the run-up to 2008, and it is the right way to think about them now. Rating agencies have a function; that function is *not* to prevent booms and busts. Quite the opposite, in fact. www.ft.com/content/09f5...

  • FT: "But there is no way for AI infrastructure to be built without the investment-grade bond market. Over $2tn of US IG bonds were issued over the past year. Whatever needs to be done to secure investment-grade ratings will be done."
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Fun teachable moment forthcoming

  • Elon Musk tweet: "Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets ..."
  • Picture of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
Posted: The situation is not great but let's appreciate the hopeful moments. This is a big one – just think about how utterly unimaginable it would…Bluesky network
Posted: The reason European academics can't be bothered to worry about AI paperclip factory scenarios is that the paperclip factory we've built for…Bluesky network
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Habe seit ich klein war auf diesen Rudi Tweet gewartet

  • Screenshot Rudi Bachmann tweet: Wenn das liberale Bürgertum in einer konkreten völlig zugespitzten Situation kurzfristig nur noch die Wahl zwischen dem Übel Mobherrschaft/Eigentumsvernichtung und dem Übel rechte Repression/ Eigentumsschutz hat, wird es letzteres wählen. Und in dieser zugespitzten, ausweglosen Dilemmasituation (aber auch nur da) kann ich diese Entscheidung zumindest nicht mehr verurteilen.
Posted: Hochgradig amüsant, dass der Parteichef scheinbar ohne Ironiebewusstsein zur grünen Jugend geht, um sie zu belehren, dass man aus strategis…Bluesky network
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“Raising questions about broader problems.” Best description of SoftBank’s core business model I’ve seen.

  • Weak Links Start to Show in A.I. Borrowing Debt trouble at CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank raises questions about whether there are broader problems with the data center build-out.
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Extremely funny cato.org landing page this week.

  • https://www.cato.org/
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Very interesting paper. Finds that rather than theatre, BIS activity in payment & settlement genuinely aims at countering the infrastructural power of private financial actors by developing public alternatives, or at at by least bolstering central bank control. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What a great conference put together by @christophsorg.bsky.social. Wish I could have been there in person.

Posted: Impressive chart. The initial spike is the standard flight-to-safety reaction. Looks like it takes global financial markets about four hour…Bluesky network
Posted: 2018: Inflation is a domestic demand-side variable under central bank control. 2022: There may be a global supply-side element to it. 202…Bluesky network
Posted: Habe sie einmal kurz persönlich gesprochen. Gespräch zu dritt mit einem berühmten Kollegen aus dem Ausland. Nach einer Minute redete sie vo…Bluesky network
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What a terrible loss. There is not a single thinker more influential for my entire cohort of political economists of money and finance. For so many of us, *the* rite of passage was Perry's online course on money and banking. And then his books. Devastating.

Posted: This is really bad. As @jwmason.bsky.social points out in the next skeet, the most recent entering class was 58% male and 42% female, meani…Bluesky network
Posted: Three days left to apply!Bluesky network
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