Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦
@dbcurren.bsky.social
writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.com
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Book Review - Ricardo's Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer
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In his #book on #DavidRicardo, #NatDyer is careful not to commit the “Ricardian Vice.” His book is very empirical. It’s full of fascinating #biographical details about #Ricardo and other influential figures in #economics, and lots of engaging history. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/10/by-d...
“In recounting the sinking of the SS #EdmundFitzgerald during a storm on Lake Superior on the night of November 10, 1975, #Lightfoot immortalized a modern tragedy at a time when its pain was still keenly felt.” www.guitarplayer.com/music/albums... #GordonLightfoot #music #MusicSky
“Gordon gave me a nod around the third verse. We had never heard the song.” The hit single that’s over six minutes long, has 14 verses and no hook or guitar solo. They nailed it on the first take
With spare time in the studio, Gordon Lightfoot peeled off a commemoration to a modern tragedy that's 50 years old today: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
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November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“In recounting the sinking of the SS #EdmundFitzgerald during a storm on Lake Superior on the night of November 10, 1975, #Lightfoot immortalized a modern tragedy at a time when its pain was still keenly felt.” www.guitarplayer.com/music/albums... #GordonLightfoot #music #MusicSky
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Look what turns 50 today … – You Can't Make This Stuff Up … #neilyoung #zuma #shakey #70srock #countryrock #folkrock #neilyoungandcrazyhorse #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
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Look what turns 50 today …
#7 from Shakey is released on November 10, 1975. It’s the first album after his “Ditch Trilogy” albums — Time Fades Away, On the Beach, and Tonight’s t…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Look what turns 50 today … – You Can't Make This Stuff Up … #neilyoung #zuma #shakey #70srock #countryrock #folkrock #neilyoungandcrazyhorse #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
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“For #TalkingHeads fans, it’s easy to resist this type of softening—to decry it, yet again, as inauthentic—but it also feels to me like a truthful, maybe even aspirational way to age.” #DavidByrne #music #MusicSky www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation
At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“For #TalkingHeads fans, it’s easy to resist this type of softening—to decry it, yet again, as inauthentic—but it also feels to me like a truthful, maybe even aspirational way to age.” #DavidByrne #music #MusicSky www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.
“Spotting #Byrne on two wheels has become a #NewYorkCity rite of passage, like sussing out the best halal cart in midtown, or dropping something important onto the subway tracks” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #DavidByrne
David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation
At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“Spotting #Byrne on two wheels has become a #NewYorkCity rite of passage, like sussing out the best halal cart in midtown, or dropping something important onto the subway tracks” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #DavidByrne
“Think of the #China #AI model as handing out Nespresso pods, basically flooding the market with standardized and perfectly serviceable AI models. The goal seems to be adoption at scale — even if it comes at the cost of differentiation or prestige.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The Coffee Pod Theory of Artificial Intelligence
Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developme...
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“Think of the #China #AI model as handing out Nespresso pods, basically flooding the market with standardized and perfectly serviceable AI models. The goal seems to be adoption at scale — even if it comes at the cost of differentiation or prestige.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The Coffee Pod Theory of Artificial Intelligence
Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developme...
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Think of the #China #AI model as handing out Nespresso pods, basically flooding the market with standardized and perfectly serviceable AI models. The goal seems to be adoption at scale — even if it comes at the cost of differentiation or prestige.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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We get to keep one societal advance, as a treat
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We get to keep one societal advance, as a treat
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It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
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The feed today is just full of massive own goals that anyone with half a brain knew would be bad: brexit, tariffs, anti-vax, health insurance market destruction ... could we maybe just have governments that don't make dumb decisions/cave to idiots? Not even good, just not actively bad?
This paper does some work evaluating the macro forecasts from the time and they didnt perform that badly!
Very interesting paper. Confirms what we knew from cross-country studies - large, rapid effects. The really interesting part is the firm-level analysis, which shows similar, if somewhat lower, magnitudes.
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The feed today is just full of massive own goals that anyone with half a brain knew would be bad: brexit, tariffs, anti-vax, health insurance market destruction ... could we maybe just have governments that don't make dumb decisions/cave to idiots? Not even good, just not actively bad?
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No. It's too soon. The leaves are still on the trees.
(And my herb garden is definitely dead.)
(And my herb garden is definitely dead.)
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
No. It's too soon. The leaves are still on the trees.
(And my herb garden is definitely dead.)
(And my herb garden is definitely dead.)
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Urban life, 🇺🇸-style.
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Urban life, 🇺🇸-style.
“The future of the project #Mamdani embodies lies in peeling away disappointed #Trump #voters, not winning the inert #center.” - #Zizek www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...
Mamdani’s Big Bet
Slavoj Žižek thinks New York’s incoming democratic-socialist mayor understands how American politics is changing.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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FINE! It's winter then. Fuck's sake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
FINE! It's winter then. Fuck's sake.
“The common thread in this onslaught of new #legislation is the dangerous #centralization of #power within the #PrivyCouncilOffice (to host the #FederalMajorProjects initiative) and in #provincial #cabinet offices.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnecon #Canada #MarkCarney #Ontario #RingofFire
Mark Carney is flooding the zone. This is what he could be trying to distract us from
As ever, almost none of these dollars from major projects will “trickle down” to the vast majority of people across the country. Instead, let’s look at who really gains from
www.thestar.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“The common thread in this onslaught of new #legislation is the dangerous #centralization of #power within the #PrivyCouncilOffice (to host the #FederalMajorProjects initiative) and in #provincial #cabinet offices.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnecon #Canada #MarkCarney #Ontario #RingofFire
Bloomberg: #Diageo surges 7.9% in London. The maker of #JohnnieWalker named Dave Lewis, known for his turnaround of UK grocer Tesco, as chief executive officer as it seeks a reboot of its own after a period of turmoil.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Bloomberg: #Diageo surges 7.9% in London. The maker of #JohnnieWalker named Dave Lewis, known for his turnaround of UK grocer Tesco, as chief executive officer as it seeks a reboot of its own after a period of turmoil.
Bloomberg: #Stocks rallied and #bonds fell as optimism that lawmakers are moving closer to a deal to end the #USshutdown spurred demand for #riskyassets. #Nvidia led gains among the #MagnificentSeven #tech #stocks, rising more than 3% premarket. #Gold rallied back above $4,000 an ounce
#markets
#markets
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Bloomberg: #Stocks rallied and #bonds fell as optimism that lawmakers are moving closer to a deal to end the #USshutdown spurred demand for #riskyassets. #Nvidia led gains among the #MagnificentSeven #tech #stocks, rising more than 3% premarket. #Gold rallied back above $4,000 an ounce
#markets
#markets
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On Friday’s CBC The National ostriches occupied the number 3 report segment, getting about 2 minutes and 30 seconds of coverage.
The Statcan jobs report which came out the same day? 24 seconds.
Make of this what you will.
#cdnpoli
The Statcan jobs report which came out the same day? 24 seconds.
Make of this what you will.
#cdnpoli
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
On Friday’s CBC The National ostriches occupied the number 3 report segment, getting about 2 minutes and 30 seconds of coverage.
The Statcan jobs report which came out the same day? 24 seconds.
Make of this what you will.
#cdnpoli
The Statcan jobs report which came out the same day? 24 seconds.
Make of this what you will.
#cdnpoli
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The decommissioned Dow Planetarium on a slushy freezing rainy night in Montréal.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The decommissioned Dow Planetarium on a slushy freezing rainy night in Montréal.
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Landing Craft Assault Off Southern France
Alex Colville
1944
Alex Colville
1944
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Landing Craft Assault Off Southern France
Alex Colville
1944
Alex Colville
1944
“Saville-Smith’s #book is a challenge to the secularization of the #soul in #psychiatry and the #humansciences, provoking the question: is there a distinction between #religious #experience and #mentalillness?” www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/recensie-acu...
recensie acute religious experiences - Psychiatrie en Filosofie
www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“Saville-Smith’s #book is a challenge to the secularization of the #soul in #psychiatry and the #humansciences, provoking the question: is there a distinction between #religious #experience and #mentalillness?” www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/recensie-acu...
“So all these examples are ways that #states simplify and impose order on their environment and the people, in order to better control them. It’s a story about mechanisms of domination.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #politicalscience #books #SeeingLikeAState
The Best Political Science Books
Emerging in the middle of the last century, political science combines data and theory to help us understand the political world. Professor Robert E. Goodin, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“So all these examples are ways that #states simplify and impose order on their environment and the people, in order to better control them. It’s a story about mechanisms of domination.” fivebooks.com/best-books/t... #politicalscience #books #SeeingLikeAState
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