DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

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1. What LLMs Can & Do Do for Me, & What They Cannot & Don’t: THURSDAY THAUMATURGY
   Oct 15, 2026
2. CROSSPOST: LARRY MacDONALD: How Karl Marx Achieved Financial Independence
   Oct 15, 2026
3. The First Time a Fed Easing Move Has Triggered a Sharp Jump in Long-Term Nominal Treasury Bond Rates: CHART OF THE DAY
   Oct 15, 2026
4. An Inflation Report That Is Disappointingly High: CHART OF THE DAY
   Oct 15, 2026
5. CROSSPOST: SEVA GUNITSKY: Trump’s “Near Abroad”
   Oct 14, 2026
6. CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claude
   Oct 13, 2026
7. What Jón Steinsson Learned from Mike Woodford in Econ 420: ENCOMIUM OF THE DAY
   Oct 13, 2026
8. CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Hand the Pen to the Committee
   Oct 12, 2026
9. A Second-Rate Philosopher I Cannot Read in His Original Greek: REGRET OF THE DAY
   Oct 12, 2026
10. Henry Farrell of Johns Hopkins Agora Comes to Berkeley: FOG & FLATLANDS
    Oct 10, 2026
11. (SEMI-)CROSSPOST/HOISTED: MATTHEW YGLESIAS (2022): What I Learned Co-Founding Vox
    Oct 9, 2026
12. "You Are Not Taking Up Too Much of My Time": A Note from a Not Asocial but Rather Parasocial Age: CHART OF THE DAY
    Oct 8, 2026
13. Katie Martin & Rob Armstrong: There Is Only One Trade: PODCAST OF THE DAY
    Oct 8, 2026
14. CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”
    Oct 7, 2026
15. CROSSPOST/HIGHLIGHTED: ROBERT FARLEY: Three Years After October 7, 2023: & Now Everything Is Worse
    Oct 7, 2026
16. The Largely-Fruitless Task of Trying to Make Sense of Human History: (LATE) TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOIL
    Oct 7, 2026
17. Not the Interface Between the Machine & the Model But the One Between the Model & the Human: (LATE) MONDAY MAMLMS
    Oct 7, 2026
18. CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
    Oct 7, 2026
19. CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
    Oct 6, 2026
20. Aggregate Total Factor Productivity & “Artificial Intelligence”: CHART OF THE DAY
    Oct 5, 2026
21. The Highly-Cultured Vladimir Lenin: SANEWASHING OF THE DAY
    Oct 5, 2026
22. Nate Silver & Co.’s Take on the House of Representatives: CHART OF THE DAY
    Oct 3, 2026
23. Arts Employment in America: CHART OF THE DAY
    Oct 2, 2026
24. Rooftop Solar Rules Elsewhere!: CHART OF THE DAY
    Oct 1, 2026
25. Sharding the Self: Ben Thompson & FaceBook’s Muse Agentic System: THURSDAY THAUMATURGY
    Oct 1, 2026
26. CROSSPOST: MIKE KONCZAL: Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers?
    Oct 1, 2026
27. CROSSPOST: PAUL KRUGMAN: The Beclowning of Scott Bessent
    Sep 29, 2026
28. The Ten-Year Treasury Bond: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 29, 2026
29. Did a Fat, Laughing Barbarian General Divert the Industrial Revolution Away from China a Thousand Years After His Death?
    Sep 27, 2026
30. CROSSPOST: SINEAD O’SULLIVAN: SpaceX Pivots Away from Space
    Sep 26, 2026
31. Sana’a Café: Dwight & Telegraph: FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS
    Sep 25, 2026
32. Yes. We Loathe Trump. We Really Loathe Trump. For Very Good Reasons. And We Are Many: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 25, 2026
33. Gerard Baker: BULLSHIT ARTIST OF THE DAY
    Sep 24, 2026
34. Real Price of Diesel: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 23, 2026
35. CROSSPOST: HENRY FARRELL: Machine God Metaphors Eat Your Brain
    Sep 22, 2026
36. FaceBook’s Muse on the Apple iOS App Store: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 22, 2026
37. READING: BARRY RITHOLTZ: How I Build My Reading Lists
    Sep 22, 2026
38. Real Technology, Phantom Profits: Who Is Likely to Actually Get Paid for the AI Buildout?: MONDAY MAMLMS
    Sep 21, 2026
39. CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Questions for the [Fed] Chair [Kevin Warsh]
    Sep 21, 2026
40. HyperScaler Operating Cash Flow “Consensus” Forecast: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 21, 2026
41. J. Bradford DeLong: Professor of Economics, Emeritus
    Sep 21, 2026
42. CROSSPOST: NICHOLAS GRUEN: Hobbes on Spin & Bullshit
    Sep 20, 2026
43. CROSSPOST: SHELLAC: Suspiciously Precise Floats, or, How I Got Claude’s Real Limits
    Sep 20, 2026
44. Passthrough Tax Loopholes & the Rise of the American Gentry: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 19, 2026
45. Trump’s State Department’s Obsession with What They Fear Are Satanic Bull-Statues: Laugh of the Day
    Sep 19, 2026
46. CROSSPOST: SPENCER ACKERMAN: Fanute The Houthi Coup
    Sep 18, 2026
47. (SEMI-)CROSSPOST: RICK PERLSTEIN: Bush’s War Is Finally Over: Al Qaeda Has Won
    Sep 18, 2026
48. America’s Gentry Élite: TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOIL
    Sep 17, 2026
49. DataCenter Risk Is the Real Thing: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 16, 2026
50. Debt & DataCenters: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 15, 2026