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This is a terrible event and full respect to those who have prevented it disappearing under White Christian Nationalism. But another side of it should be celebrated, namely that it took only two generations after the 14th amendment for there to be Tulsa cum Black Wall Street to stir such violence.

Im just going to say it. The new Ken Burns piece on the American War of Independence is interesting material well handled. But The soundtrack truly is a major advance in the treatment of insomnia. Those warm earnest tones all in one register. Patent it !

The fault-line in Maga has opened …. between those riding it to pursue the billionaire interest vs those who really do want to drain the swamp. Interesting times.

Moral of this srory : horrible people congregate.

So Summers is tied up with Epstein too … ye Gods.

It is professionally unacceptable to be this ignorant of a country on which you are imposing Conditionality.

ICYMI

The FT cannot get its head around the fact that their primary bond is that they are both White Christian Nationalists. Nothing “mesmeric”, “underhand”, ”spy thrilllerish” etc. about it.

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IMF Disgrace: Senegal My assessment and recommendations. www.financialafrik.com/en/2025/10/2...

So a Treasury Secretary who secured his post by saying absolutely anything finds, in the real world, that he has no credibility. Let us desperately hope there isn’t a major financial crisis in the US or elsewhere with non-credible him still in post.

Shall I compare crowd sizes here and at the inauguration … ? (h/t) to Will Shakespeare

Cannot help wondering it this latest outbreak of petulance is just because his much hyped 20-point nonsense on Gaza is already crumbling before everyone’s eyes, as Netanyahu humiliates him once more.

He understood deeply.

Well the IMF says in its WEO today that the US trade-weighted tariff is 17.5 percent now. IMF numbers bouncing around … who knew !

So the US has finally strong-armed Netanyahu into a ceasefire. Never mind for now good questions about durability etc. Just ask why it took Trump to force the issue with Netanyahu and why Biden was unwilling to do so ?

And, for the record, obviously what the UK needs to do to fix all of this is reverse its post 2009 productivity disaster.

Yes, Andy off the rails. LR fiscal sustainability/credibility essential to allow ST discretion. But if there’s a problem, no need to fix it in one go—framework rightly allows action over time. But with UK near to full empl, and inflation a tad high, arguable case for some fiscal tightening now.

How much work is “framework” doing ?

My view remains unchanged from immediately following Oct 7: 1. Absolute no to the actions of Hamas. 2. Absolute no to islamophobia anywhere anytime. 3. Absolute no to the actions of the Netanyahu government. 4. Absolute no to anti-semitism anywhere, anytime. All four, all together, always.

I hope the DEMS do not lose this in the din. If Trump can have Jan 6 ppls backs with pardons for doing the wrong thing, DEMS must have military backs with full restitution and honor for doing the right thing.

Chair Powell did not want to see this in the data for August.

The DEMS should commit now that any US military who loses their job for refusing an order to fire on US citizens will have any lost pay and pension fully restored, along with a promotion and a newly minted medal honoring this specific valor, when the DEMS return to the White House.

CBAMs, as intellectually baseless as any tariff that Trump has come up with.

The IMF says the effective US tariff is 9 percent. Someone is wrong.

Wow .. is this confirmed ?

Always interesting when “bullies” (to put it mildly) pronounce on what their victims “must” do.

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Its ultimatum time: either you agree now that you will obey orders to attack US citizens, or you leave now.

… for intervening without a mask ? …

“Im thinking about Argentine macro in the back of a noisy matatu” says one of my students. That may be the best place for it. (And if you don’t know what a matatu is, look it up)

Its fine for them to point out that the independence of the Federal Reserve is a good thing. But this SCOTUS has already made clear it does not make rulings on the basis of whether something is good or not.

Oh c’mon BlueSkyeisters … this is worth at least a chuckle …

So does Trump apply a “Bolsonaro” tariff to France now ?

Something deeply cruel about a society which required two of my friends, who buried their father on Friday, to return to work today if they wanted to keep their jobs as teachers.

The earnest—and very female—face of White Christian Nationalism.

Melania often dresses with meaning … so why today is she dressed like a lampshade ?

Statecraft goes infantile.

Starmer needs this state visit right now like he needs a hole in his head.

No death should be celebrated. But there is no obligation to celebrate the preceding life either.

ICYMI youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ

Extremely dangerous moment … given how many on the right have been salivating for an excuse to go military/vigilante/both.

Way too many cooks.

Will he rename it “The Hexagon”?

So the latest downward revisions to non-farm employment (over the past year) help to understand (confirm) the evidence from the trend decline in African American participation suggesting sustained weakening of the economy over that period (until August—the data on which I still do not understand).

Chart of shame.

Its not that Djokevic and the rest trail the top two. Given Sinner’s serving woes in the US Open, Djokevic could well have beaten him had they been drawn in the same half. But neither of them can now touch Alcaraz.

The only subject Brits hated more than PE was religious studies. A nation of slobs … or is PE about humiliation?

I was going to say I was reasonably sure the new “management” at BLS would not have had time yet to interfere with African American participation data … but the data for August are so odd … I have no idea (yet) what to make of them … and I aver the FOMC is similarly befuddled.