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Opening an outstanding post by Joshua M. Brown: The only way to save the economy is to crash it. “You can blame the Federal Reserve’s loose money policies if you’d like” — a torrent of devalued-capital...
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The familiarity of this insight is amply compensated by the breadth of its application: … people typically care more about making sure they are seen to take a particular moral stance than they care...
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Douthat: The liberal sees that conservatives were foolish to imagine Iraq remade as a democracy; the conservative sees that liberals were foolish to imagine Europe remade as a post-national utopia with...
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Tyler Cowen on the Brexit message: … if you are thinking that voting “Leave” does not at all limit Pakistani immigration, you are truly missing the point; this vote was the one lever the English were...
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Dampier in full-flight: … the fundamental political rights that Americans have come to expect tend not to be respected by either the political elites in Washington and academia or the reinforcements...
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Karlin: Fundamentally solve the “intelligence problem,” and all other problems become trivial. ‘Fundamentally solving the intelligence problem’ would be intense in a way I suspect no one has yet begun...
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West: I like to pride myself on having a very low opinion of people, but even I’m sometimes surprised by how idiotic they are … (Empirical-realist, and punchy.)
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Steve Bannon’s world: … And so I think we are in a crisis of the underpinnings of capitalism, and on top of that we’re now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism....
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More game theory from Fernandez: It will inevitably occur to someone that the advantage in an escalation trap belongs to the side which cares about America less since there is no point at which it will...
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Well, I AM an introvert white nihilist, so this one is actually technically true.But no, I stir up shit because shit needs fixing. https://t.co/rW8BDe1vJi — Notch (@notch) June 12, 2017 (Posting this...
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