Yakov Feygin
@buddyyakov.bsky.social
Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
@arnabdatta.bsky.social is editing a fascinating new series about drawing lessons from what worked and didn’t in the CHIPS Act. It’s this kind of nitty gritty operations analysis that is just as important as legal and authorities focused post mortums. www.factorysettings.org/p/introducin...
Introducing Factory Settings
A new series about how CHIPS succeeded
www.factorysettings.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
@arnabdatta.bsky.social is editing a fascinating new series about drawing lessons from what worked and didn’t in the CHIPS Act. It’s this kind of nitty gritty operations analysis that is just as important as legal and authorities focused post mortums. www.factorysettings.org/p/introducin...
Wtf my book got a Jacobin review? I don’t mind but it always surprises me that anyone cares.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Wtf my book got a Jacobin review? I don’t mind but it always surprises me that anyone cares.
My only cope is that the GOP House fucks this up to avoid Epstein votes.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
My only cope is that the GOP House fucks this up to avoid Epstein votes.
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Since two others are retiring soon, that leaves Rosen and Hasan and Kaine. If any of you have one of those 3 as a Senator, get calling
Plus it isn't over just yet - the final bill vote five days later also has a 60 vote threshold. Plenty of time for anti-caving constituents to make the cavers' lives hell (apart from Fetterman, CCM and King, who want the shutdown to end at any cost and won't listen to anyone).
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Since two others are retiring soon, that leaves Rosen and Hasan and Kaine. If any of you have one of those 3 as a Senator, get calling
Ohh boy might in be wrong
What’s telling is he’s got a good political instinct and that’s trying to cut a check with his name on it. He just won’t have Dems to do it for him!
somebody's been informed he's losing the case
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Ohh boy might in be wrong
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These guys are idiots.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These guys are idiots.
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personally, I think election years are a great time to repeatedly illustrate the intransigence, incapacity, & cruelty of the Republican majority
if the break is as reported- a short term CR- seems like we might want to do this again in January
I think if senate mods want to break, they will break, but it's really important they do it without cover from the caucus or leadership
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
personally, I think election years are a great time to repeatedly illustrate the intransigence, incapacity, & cruelty of the Republican majority
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if the break is as reported- a short term CR- seems like we might want to do this again in January
I think if senate mods want to break, they will break, but it's really important they do it without cover from the caucus or leadership
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
if the break is as reported- a short term CR- seems like we might want to do this again in January
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Public goods are the ROI multiplier we deserve.
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Public goods are the ROI multiplier we deserve.
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My favourite Rorschach test/Libertarian filter is: Do you see this problem resulting from unnecessary supply restrictions or from public sector inefficiency?
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My favourite Rorschach test/Libertarian filter is: Do you see this problem resulting from unnecessary supply restrictions or from public sector inefficiency?
Ok yeah this is some Downfall stuff.
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Ok yeah this is some Downfall stuff.
What’s telling is he’s got a good political instinct and that’s trying to cut a check with his name on it. He just won’t have Dems to do it for him!
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What’s telling is he’s got a good political instinct and that’s trying to cut a check with his name on it. He just won’t have Dems to do it for him!
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this is what I want people to assert:
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
this is what I want people to assert:
Issue is that housing, health and childcare are stand out costs aka things that require public goods. We really need to reread the affluent society.
This is false in every way that matters (except wealth gap)
True, but with wages not keeping up with inflation & the wealth gap increasing, the American dream is further out of reach for the younger generations. A family of four could live on a single income, buy a modest home, have a vehicle, a couple kids & an annual vacation.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Issue is that housing, health and childcare are stand out costs aka things that require public goods. We really need to reread the affluent society.
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The issue is Russ Vought actually wants to starve people. Dems should demand his head.
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The issue is Russ Vought actually wants to starve people. Dems should demand his head.
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And half of seniors were uninsured
15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
And half of seniors were uninsured
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🇲🇼⚠️ Malawian girls in Russia were taken into slavery and forced to make Shaheds in the Alabuga industrial zone.
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🇲🇼⚠️ Malawian girls in Russia were taken into slavery and forced to make Shaheds in the Alabuga industrial zone.
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
Human Rights Watch confirmed that it is investigating reports of the recruitment of Malawian girls through Alabuga Start program, which promised jobs and training…
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think most left-leaning folks underestimate the importance and impact of having your cadres in the bureaucracy as well as in elected positions
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
think most left-leaning folks underestimate the importance and impact of having your cadres in the bureaucracy as well as in elected positions
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& also underestimate how many government workers are already itching to be given a mandate to do big things and make a positive difference in people’s lives rather than just keep the lights on and tinker around the edges sometimes
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
& also underestimate how many government workers are already itching to be given a mandate to do big things and make a positive difference in people’s lives rather than just keep the lights on and tinker around the edges sometimes
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30 yr fixed rate mortgages are bad in the first place, especially when paired with the mortgage interest tax deduction. Hurts the ability of the fed to respond to economic conditions because changes end up rippling through the economy slower than if we had ARMs like the rest of the world
Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
30 yr fixed rate mortgages are bad in the first place, especially when paired with the mortgage interest tax deduction. Hurts the ability of the fed to respond to economic conditions because changes end up rippling through the economy slower than if we had ARMs like the rest of the world
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It starts, as rot always does, with a sandwich. One tossed Reuben in the name of “justice,” and the crowd laughs. But the laughter curdles. The bread becomes a banner, the mustard a manifesto. Tomorrow it’s a trash fire behind the Target, next week it’s sirens wailing over empty streets.
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It starts, as rot always does, with a sandwich. One tossed Reuben in the name of “justice,” and the crowd laughs. But the laughter curdles. The bread becomes a banner, the mustard a manifesto. Tomorrow it’s a trash fire behind the Target, next week it’s sirens wailing over empty streets.
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You know why. Generals in tents trade PowerPoints while men bleed in sand. Children play baseball on cul-de-sacs, breaking windows like small detonations. Sprinklers hiss over manicured lawns, the apocalypse watered daily. Every SUV hums like a drone; every suburb hides its own IED of denial.
Why is a senior official carrying a long rifle walking down a quiet residential street??
Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
You know why. Generals in tents trade PowerPoints while men bleed in sand. Children play baseball on cul-de-sacs, breaking windows like small detonations. Sprinklers hiss over manicured lawns, the apocalypse watered daily. Every SUV hums like a drone; every suburb hides its own IED of denial.
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One of the things that infuriates me about a lot of the "sinophobia" discourse that Asian-American lefties do is that they try to frame the PRC's overseas intimidation of dissidents as an inter-Asian dispute when a lot of the guys who acted on behalf of the PRC are white
The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of the things that infuriates me about a lot of the "sinophobia" discourse that Asian-American lefties do is that they try to frame the PRC's overseas intimidation of dissidents as an inter-Asian dispute when a lot of the guys who acted on behalf of the PRC are white