I wrote about "recent events" and their economic fallout (aka what I'm thinking and worrying about) with some callbacks to when I was a freshman in college in 2002: open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...
This is my annual argument with my otherwise very health conscious ("what does the latest research say???") mother-in-law!
an orange cat looks truly exhausted after βdaylight savingsβ stole an hour from him
I really needed that hour but they stole it
Eek on so many levels, and also, all the "well,", "yes, really," and "baby!" stylistic tics are so grating!
A truly depressing look at the role of crypto and AI spending in congressional races.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
It's the era of the white swan, the shocks to our system were very foreseeable
-Global flu pandemic
-Climate change increasing instability
-Extreme concentration of wealth perverting politics
-Strongman taking advantage of US's ossified system
-War with Iran provoking an energy crisis
just had to read several books 'at speed' for reasons, and can confirm, the sweet spot book-wise is 40-50000 words; it's got to be really good to be more than that, and most simply aren't!
Democratic funders should invest in a Jasmine Crockett Hype House. I'm 100% serious.
I am so here for this -- if there's a way for other scholars to contribute, I'd love to help!
This would be a very good time to have a functioning Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
montmorency cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912
montmorency cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912
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The measured consideration of each bite, oh my goodness
more memories than I wish I had of arguing with grad school classmates about how people probably weren't voting for Trump because he was somehow antiwar
hmmm
It has no intrinsic value and is therefore extremely volatile? @cnn.com
Civic minded multimillionaires, let's talk about @heartlandsignal.bsky.social
truly the only app I feel comfortable letting my kids 'run wild' in
In this week's newsletter I wrote about Republicans' plan to win in 2026. Is it doing popular things? No, it's trying to get Democrats to nominate candidates with lots of baggage radio-free-america.beehiiv.com/p/why-are-mi...
ICYMI: I looked through a published archive of Boston newspapers from the 1760s, when British troops were stationed in the city.
The accounts read remarkably similar to what's happening in Minneapolis.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...
Okay!
Ahhh!!! Amazing!
Literally just realized that my 'primary' mailbox is full of promotions/updates/spam π«
Oh sob sob sob!!! I love my OG Bolt; this is so depressing.
Savoring this in light of the fancy academic who sneered at my grad school presentation about Iceland's financial crisis since it was a place no one cared about with only 350,000 people.
okay so fun news, I am launching a macro newsletter from Common Wealth about the supply side data and the US economy called Forces of Production
Charts for bsky forthcoming at: @forcesofproduction.com
Launch essay below:
www.forcesofproduction.com/p/atop-the-f...
Cover of Griffith review 91.
I wrote an essay about banks for Griffith Review.
Yes please!
Hey hey -- newsletter in under the wire before the weekend about the Powell investigation, central bank independence and the Fed's dual mandate, and the Trump administration's vendetta against Powell: ο»Ώopen.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...
One grim takeaway I have from 2024 is that you could've run hundreds of millions of dollars on ads saying Trump would tank the markets and our global standing and it wouldn't have made a difference, everyone was just in the mood to Touch The Stove.
