Things I think are of note in the realms of law, technology, and political economy.
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Last Notes npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown It's somewhat weird that so many people (most?) are worried that AI might kill us all, SkyNet-style, but relatively few (maybe less than half?) are worried that climate change -- something well underway, and shockingly faster than predicted -- will kill us all. npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown Very compelling evidence and argument that Elon musk is betting on permanent US oligarchy: https://withallduerespectpodcast.substack.com/p/elon-musk-the-arithmetic-of-impunity-010 npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown Apparently, the US adding 57k jobs in a month (June report, just out) is now "a steady pace" (per NYTimes). npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown In a release that seems to have escaped mainstream notice, the Trump OCC is now saying that banks not providing financing for various ventures including "drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic" is an example of "debanking": npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown Without immigration, US headed for contraction npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown Does the BLS benchmark revision downwards of almost 1M jobs thru March 2025 prove "Trump was right"? No. I got the BLS updated series, and charted and compared the data. Results: Biden (in his final year) demolished Trump-2 in his first year so far, with a 2.6x greater rate of job creation. npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown @npub153l…caex What do you think of this budget/trade balance article from Orszag? To me, the "balanced budget -> reduced trade deficit" argument sounds like a dubious first-order analysis. Like, we balance the US budget and Americans suddenly will not buy cheap products from overseas? I don't see it. npub1yuvsc69fafgty0eycpd357s4hjkdd3g806ek00enhryd77dksf7qvyxrj9 Aston Crown nonsense, I'm sure Americans will quickly line up to make sneakers at sweatshop wages! 😆
