These stories can easily be read as signs of corruption or crony capitalism. But in new piece w/ @segoddard.bsky.social we argue it is part of a wider emerging international order. We call it neo-royalism. State interests replaced by those of hyper-elites.
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Here you have Sec Lutnick as Commerce Secretary and his oldest son, Kyle Lutnick, involved in exactly the same AI data center deal. Dad as government official. Son as financial deal maker--earning the family-controlled company millions in fees. Both this summer.

For sure. Also haven’t looked at these splits but it seemed like he struggled much more earlier in the season where he had wholly ineffective outings

I know you know this nuance but watching him all season, a lot of those appearances where he left with runners on was due to him being unable to find the zone and/or getting smacked around. His year was def high variance-sometimes dominant but other times was borderline unusable.