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At risk of being the Bluesky well ackhsually meme dude, here's a trivial counterexample: imperialist/interventionist wars are good for GDP.
Ceteris paribus all good things do indeed correlate with economic growth but that ceteris paribus is load bearing. You definitely *can* have "bad GDP growth".
Ceteris paribus all good things do indeed correlate with economic growth but that ceteris paribus is load bearing. You definitely *can* have "bad GDP growth".
October 5, 2026 at 12:30 PM
At risk of being the Bluesky well ackhsually meme dude, here's a trivial counterexample: imperialist/interventionist wars are good for GDP.
Ceteris paribus all good things do indeed correlate with economic growth but that ceteris paribus is load bearing. You definitely *can* have "bad GDP growth".
Ceteris paribus all good things do indeed correlate with economic growth but that ceteris paribus is load bearing. You definitely *can* have "bad GDP growth".
I dont think people (or even trump, as much of an idiot might be) think about existing mortgages when referring to the impact of yields on mortgages. Then again I guess xkcd caveat applies.
October 1, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I dont think people (or even trump, as much of an idiot might be) think about existing mortgages when referring to the impact of yields on mortgages. Then again I guess xkcd caveat applies.
The world in 2030 after we put all EA-adjacent organization on the OFAC watchlist
September 17, 2026 at 7:53 PM
The world in 2030 after we put all EA-adjacent organization on the OFAC watchlist
Meh, this is just a restatement of the increasing wealth concentration in US.
At net worth south of 1M primary residence still utterly dominates stocks.
At net worth south of 1M primary residence still utterly dominates stocks.
July 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Meh, this is just a restatement of the increasing wealth concentration in US.
At net worth south of 1M primary residence still utterly dominates stocks.
At net worth south of 1M primary residence still utterly dominates stocks.
This but in real life basically
July 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This but in real life basically
I think it's interesting to look at this on a log scale because it becomes pretty clear:
1. It craps the pants starting in 1970, not 1980.
2. It actually recovered from 2000 and now the two are running ~parallel. the lines still diverge in absolute terms because of different base.
1. It craps the pants starting in 1970, not 1980.
2. It actually recovered from 2000 and now the two are running ~parallel. the lines still diverge in absolute terms because of different base.
April 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I think it's interesting to look at this on a log scale because it becomes pretty clear:
1. It craps the pants starting in 1970, not 1980.
2. It actually recovered from 2000 and now the two are running ~parallel. the lines still diverge in absolute terms because of different base.
1. It craps the pants starting in 1970, not 1980.
2. It actually recovered from 2000 and now the two are running ~parallel. the lines still diverge in absolute terms because of different base.
I ~agree on complexity but ~60% of the whole ass thing is just this super trivial chart.
You simply cannot convince people that economy is "fine" and "hot" when they cannot afford houses they could ~5 years ago. See alt text.
Trump understands this thats why he wants to fiddle with the Fed.
You simply cannot convince people that economy is "fine" and "hot" when they cannot afford houses they could ~5 years ago. See alt text.
Trump understands this thats why he wants to fiddle with the Fed.
April 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I ~agree on complexity but ~60% of the whole ass thing is just this super trivial chart.
You simply cannot convince people that economy is "fine" and "hot" when they cannot afford houses they could ~5 years ago. See alt text.
Trump understands this thats why he wants to fiddle with the Fed.
You simply cannot convince people that economy is "fine" and "hot" when they cannot afford houses they could ~5 years ago. See alt text.
Trump understands this thats why he wants to fiddle with the Fed.
Which way American man
February 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Which way American man
New Sankey diagram just dropped
January 26, 2026 at 1:32 PM
New Sankey diagram just dropped
Your ICE shows up in unmarked vans, French military police (which is a ginormous org) shows up in these, rungs and rungs and rungs of them, and the French still send policemen to the hospital lol
January 22, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Your ICE shows up in unmarked vans, French military police (which is a ginormous org) shows up in these, rungs and rungs and rungs of them, and the French still send policemen to the hospital lol
Lara Croft on wiki for reference
Mar-a-Lago face + porn star cans
To be honest I think it's a form of mental dysfunction that makes them unable to bridge symbolic visual placeholders to reality.
Mar-a-Lago face + porn star cans
To be honest I think it's a form of mental dysfunction that makes them unable to bridge symbolic visual placeholders to reality.
January 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Lara Croft on wiki for reference
Mar-a-Lago face + porn star cans
To be honest I think it's a form of mental dysfunction that makes them unable to bridge symbolic visual placeholders to reality.
Mar-a-Lago face + porn star cans
To be honest I think it's a form of mental dysfunction that makes them unable to bridge symbolic visual placeholders to reality.
Adding insult to injury, this is what passes off as "bacon" in the UK.
*ducks*
*ducks*
December 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Adding insult to injury, this is what passes off as "bacon" in the UK.
*ducks*
*ducks*
"Sir, another perfect dunk on Silver's slopmentary has been published."
December 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"Sir, another perfect dunk on Silver's slopmentary has been published."
30000 words and 200 factual errors to say this.
Flash-in-a-pan, one-trick-pony public intellectual of the social media era having a normal one over a tenured professor who has forgotten more stuff then he'll ever learn lmao and is also a better blogger. Pathetic.
Flash-in-a-pan, one-trick-pony public intellectual of the social media era having a normal one over a tenured professor who has forgotten more stuff then he'll ever learn lmao and is also a better blogger. Pathetic.
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
30000 words and 200 factual errors to say this.
Flash-in-a-pan, one-trick-pony public intellectual of the social media era having a normal one over a tenured professor who has forgotten more stuff then he'll ever learn lmao and is also a better blogger. Pathetic.
Flash-in-a-pan, one-trick-pony public intellectual of the social media era having a normal one over a tenured professor who has forgotten more stuff then he'll ever learn lmao and is also a better blogger. Pathetic.
Wake up honey new socialist judeo christian synthesis just dropped
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Wake up honey new socialist judeo christian synthesis just dropped
This is a structural phenomenon caused by incomplete socialist reform, because the capitalists have the whole PMC playing the game as the guy on the left.
The real working class is actually the liquid.
This is also why "social liberalism" in the end is just fascism with extra steps.
The real working class is actually the liquid.
This is also why "social liberalism" in the end is just fascism with extra steps.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is a structural phenomenon caused by incomplete socialist reform, because the capitalists have the whole PMC playing the game as the guy on the left.
The real working class is actually the liquid.
This is also why "social liberalism" in the end is just fascism with extra steps.
The real working class is actually the liquid.
This is also why "social liberalism" in the end is just fascism with extra steps.
In what way "being able to see the sun raising and setting" is not material prosperity? I come from a place where in the aftermath of a massive environmental crisis 15y ago, the whole fucking place is _still_ littered in a way no other 1st World country is. I promise you it _is_ a material thing.
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In what way "being able to see the sun raising and setting" is not material prosperity? I come from a place where in the aftermath of a massive environmental crisis 15y ago, the whole fucking place is _still_ littered in a way no other 1st World country is. I promise you it _is_ a material thing.
In Neapolitan where rum baba ("babba' au rumm') is typically made in the shape see below, you can call someone a "babba", I guess the metonymy is pretty obvious.
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In Neapolitan where rum baba ("babba' au rumm') is typically made in the shape see below, you can call someone a "babba", I guess the metonymy is pretty obvious.
And it makes me think of this image macro.
We used to consume exclusively media made by theatre school types, then the man of the street (tm) started producing media and the result is just... not great?
Well, I never came out a barber shop smarter than I got in.
We used to consume exclusively media made by theatre school types, then the man of the street (tm) started producing media and the result is just... not great?
Well, I never came out a barber shop smarter than I got in.
March 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
And it makes me think of this image macro.
We used to consume exclusively media made by theatre school types, then the man of the street (tm) started producing media and the result is just... not great?
Well, I never came out a barber shop smarter than I got in.
We used to consume exclusively media made by theatre school types, then the man of the street (tm) started producing media and the result is just... not great?
Well, I never came out a barber shop smarter than I got in.
Sending in this dude for the collections
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sending in this dude for the collections