You know how every once in a while I say "Here's a writer you should be reading, who you're probably not reading yet"? Oliver Kim is one of those. Read more Oliver Kim! 👇

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Origins of the Noah Smith-Brad DeLong-Dan Wang 2015 Pizza Dinner at Zachary's Dining, not philosophers, but economists. We tried to settle the following questions: Was the big risk in early 2009 that excessive monetary and… braddelong.substack.com/p/hoisted-from…

From William Bolts to Jeff Bezos: John Cassidy Writes the Story of Capitalism as Seen in the Mirror of Its Discontents & in the Imagination of Its Alternatives I cannot claim that this is in any sense the Director’s Cut—the actual Democracy Journal… braddelong.substack.com/p/from-william…

Employment Growth Stalled: America's Labor Market in Tariff-Uncertainty Twilight The Federal Reserve is boxed in—with neither a reduction in rates to fight possible recession nor an increase to fight possible inflation prudent—with sputtering payroll as… braddelong.substack.com/p/employment-g…

On the Deeply Corrupt Republican Justices Constitutional Moments & Constitutional Mischief: The Court, Trump, the Limits of Law, Emergency dockets, partisan rulings, and the peril of a judiciary that never expects to have to answer to the current loyal… braddelong.substack.com/p/on-the-deepl…

Before ChatGPT, There Were Markets, Ministries, & Meritocracies—Our Oldest, Strangest Shoggoth-Like "AI"s The gears of modernity: why our institutions are the original “machine minds”. “Kafka’s castle, Smith’s invisible hand, the Protestant ethic, and… braddelong.substack.com/p/before-chatg…

It looks like future historians will say that in all the annals of American economic governance, the appointment of Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary—alongside the elevation of E.J. Antoni to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—was a critical sea-change away from institutional... 1/

The Best Things I Have Found on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Neural Networks It may simply be that I am in a very unusual position with respect to what I know & what I don't, but I found these three videos from Welch Labs to be incredibly… braddelong.substack.com/p/the-best-thi…