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Economic history, economics, political economy, finance, & forecasting. Here to try to make you (and me) smarter in a world with many increasingly deep & complicated troubles...
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The Sledgehammer & the Gavel: Dan Wang’s "Breakneck" Has Very Important Things to Say About China, America, & Building the Future
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/the-sledgehammer-and-the-gavel-dan
Published: August 31, 2025 17:21
Engineering State vs. Lawyerly Society in a world that needs to build things & networks & also to empower & secure people—& what a smarter hybrid could unlock. Contemporary lived experience meets...
ChatGPT5 vs. Dan Davies: Who Is the Matador & Who Is the Bull Here?
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/chatgpt5-vs-dan-davies-who-is-the
Published: August 29, 2025 18:36
Let us start with Dan Davies tormenting ChatGPT5, because as a fly to a wanton boy is it to him:
On the Apple Vision Pro: Gonzo Tech Demo? Yes...
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/on-the-apple-vision-pro-gonzo-tech
Published: August 29, 2025 17:30
...Glimpse of the Future? Maybe; Useful Niche Product? Only for a Very Small Nice That Does Not Include Me. Spatial Computing, Virtual Disappointments, & the Search for Real Usefulness: A Very Bri...
PROJECT SYNDICATE: Is a Sino-American Synthesis Possible?: Reviewing Dan Wang's "Breakneck"
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/project-syndicate-is-a-sino-american
Published: August 27, 2025 20:30
If you want to know what is driving today's China or America, Dan Wang's new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future is an indispensable guide. Wang
A Note on the Unusual Procedures Surrounding the Expiration of Federal Reserve Gubernatorial Appointments...
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-the-unusual-procedures
Published: August 26, 2025 20:58
...that I repost here, for reasons...
Chaos Monkeys Trying to Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook to Lower Interest Rates Succeed in Raising Them
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/chaos-moneys-trying-to-fire-fed-governor
Published: August 26, 2025 11:49
Chaos monkeys chaosing as they caravan down Constitution Avenue from the White House to the Eccles Building. The attack on Fed independence spooked investors, widened yield spreads, & raised the...
Is Conan the Barbarian Actually Good?
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/is-conan-the-barbarian-actually-good
Published: August 25, 2025 17:33
A Cimmerian strides through my brain between my retina and my frontal lobe, boasting “live, I love, I slay, and am content!” This is not good literature. &, yet, somehow… it is. Why Conan the...
From Aiskhylos to AI-Slop: Navigating the Cognitive Earthquake of Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/from-aiskhylos-to-ai-slop-navigating
Published: August 25, 2025 17:31
Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models—MAMLMs—are already an off-scale financial-econo tech-sector earthquake as well, and they will become a classification-analysis earthquake as they make...
On Dan Wang’s Brand-New "Breakneck": The World's Dynamos China & America, & Building Our Common Global Future Home
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/on-dan-wangs-brand-new-breakneck
Published: August 25, 2025 13:40
The Sledgehammer & the Gavel at Dawn & Dusk: Synthesis, strife, and the race to shape the twenty-first century; how China & America build—and block—their common future. Dan Wang’s brand-new...
Trump Is Losing All His Trade Wars, Badly
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/trump-is-losing-all-his-trade-wars
Published: August 21, 2025 22:56
Rhetorical claims of trade-war victory are entirely hollow. The costs of the new Trumpist Tariff régime fall overwhelmingly on Americans, the benefits of spurring productive reindustrialization are...