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

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1. J. Bradford DeLong: Professor of Economics, Emeritus
   Sep 21, 2026
2. CROSSPOST: NICHOLAS GRUEN: Hobbes on Spin & Bullshit
   Sep 20, 2026
3. CROSSPOST: SHELLAC: Suspiciously Precise Floats, or, How I Got Claude’s Real Limits
   Sep 20, 2026
4. Passthrough Tax Loopholes & the Rise of the American Gentry: CHART OF THE DAY
   Sep 19, 2026
5. Trump’s State Department’s Obsession with What They Fear Are Satanic Bull-Statues: Laugh of the Day
   Sep 19, 2026
6. CROSSPOST: SPENCER ACKERMAN: Fanute The Houthi Coup
   Sep 18, 2026
7. (SEMI-)CROSSPOST: RICK PERLSTEIN: Bush’s War Is Finally Over: Al Qaeda Has Won
   Sep 18, 2026
8. America’s Gentry Élite: TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOIL
   Sep 17, 2026
9. DataCenter Risk Is the Real Thing: CHART OF THE DAY
   Sep 16, 2026
10. Debt & DataCenters: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 15, 2026
11. CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 250. What We Learned from USPS v. California
    Sep 15, 2026
12. (SEMI-)CROSSPOST: JACOB LEVY: Conceptualizing Academic Freedom
    Sep 15, 2026
13. CROSSPOST: ANDREW GELMAN: “Replication Crisis”, Dan Ariely Files
    Sep 14, 2026
14. The Feminization of Employment Growth During Trump II: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 14, 2026
15. SubTuringBradBot & Parasocial Sociability: SUNDAY SPECIAL: MAMLMS & SOCIETY
    Sep 12, 2026
16. CROSSPOST: ROY EDROSO: Tubby, Hero & Victim of 9/11
    Sep 11, 2026
17. CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: The Trump Administration Strategy Fail
    Sep 11, 2026
18. CROSSPOST: JOHN QUIGGIN: US Navy Defeated Again
    Sep 8, 2026
19. Interest Rate-Hike Expectations: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 8, 2026
20. Elon Musk & His DOGE & DogeCoin Adventure: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 7, 2026
21. CROSSPOST: RILEY CEDER & J.D. SIMKINS: Navy Not Returning to Damaged Bahrain Base ‘Anytime Soon,’ Top Officer Says
    Sep 7, 2026
22. In Memory of Jeffrey Williamson: SATURDAY “SLOUCHING” & FRIENDS
    Sep 6, 2026
23. (NOT A) CROSSPOST: HALINA BENNET: The Return of Institutional Purpose [to Academia]
    Sep 6, 2026
24. Looking Askance Yet Again at MuskWorld: WEIRDNESS OF THE DAY
    Sep 5, 2026
25. ThothBot Makes an Appearance in My RA-Group Telegram Chat: FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS
    Sep 5, 2026
26. CROSSPOST: PAUL KRUGMAN: Imperialist Delusions & the Price of Fuel
    Sep 3, 2026
27. Retraining Workers for “AI”: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 3, 2026
28. CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: Did Trump’s Tariffs Achieve Trump’s Goals?
    Sep 2, 2026
29. The Viking Alliance Is Coalescing: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 2, 2026
30. READING: LEWIS CARROLL (1895): What The Tortoise Said To Achilles
    Sep 2, 2026
31. How Special Is Programming as a Token-Infall Attractor?: CHART OF THE DAY
    Sep 2, 2026
32. The Fed Chairman Who Would Prefer Not to Say: Warsh’s Silence as a Position, Not a Puzzle: TUESDAY MACRO OUTLOOK
    Sep 1, 2026
33. CROSSPOST: DAVID ALBOUY, JONATHAN PARKER, STEPHEN DURLAUF, JON STEINSSON: On Acemoglu, Johnson, & Robinson’s “Colonial Origins...”
    Sep 1, 2026
34. CROSSPOST: EMILY BENDER: “Stochastic Parrots”
    Aug 30, 2026
35. Heading for a Large, Rapid Fall in Interest Rates?: CHART OF THE DAY
    Aug 29, 2026
36. The U.S. Federal Fiscal Flow Deficit Problem: CHART OF THE DAY
    Aug 28, 2026
37. CROSSPOST: GÉRARD ROLAND: The Berkeley years. Part XXII
    Aug 28, 2026
38. CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: Good News. There’s Already a U.S.-Canada Trade Deal
    Aug 28, 2026
39. CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: Categories of Contempt: A Typology of my Domestic Political Disgust
    Aug 27, 2026
40. NVIDIA Earnings: CHART OF THE DAY
    Aug 27, 2026
41. (VERY PARTIAL-)CROSSPOST: Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis (2002): The Inheritance of Inequality
    Aug 25, 2026
42. NVIDIA Has a Seven-Day Stock Price Slide, But You Should Not Care: CHART/ANNOYANCE OF THE DAY
    Aug 25, 2026
43. The White-Collar Canaries in the AI-Job-Loss Coal Mine Are Wide Awake, Feeding, & Chirping to Themselves: CHART OF THE DAY
    Aug 23, 2026
44. Going Deeply into the Weeds & Standing Up a New Local LLM: THURSDAY MAMLMS
    Aug 21, 2026
45. WAIT!! WHAT?!?!: “Mr Albouy Reaches His Conclusion by Omitting Half the Data from the Original Sample”: ANOTHER CHART OF THE DAY
    Aug 21, 2026
46. CROSSPOST: BRET DEVEREAUX: At the Autocratic Court of the Chaos-Monkey Trump, & Near the Rubicon River
    Aug 21, 2026
47. Bubble Watching: This Is What Happens in the Type of Period Called “Distress”: CHART OF THE DAY
    Aug 20, 2026
48. CROSSPOST: JOE FRANCIS: Running Out of Patience with Economics
    Aug 20, 2026
49. Here in Academia, “AI” Has Arrived for Software Coding, for Summarization & Search, for Writing Prose, & for Assessment: CHART OF THE DAY
    Aug 20, 2026
50. HOISTED FROM PAUL KRUGMAN’S ARCHIVES: PAUL KRUGMAN (2012): Looking Back With Shrillness
    Aug 19, 2026