Rob Shum
@robshum.bsky.social
Public policy ( #climate / energy policy, more specifically ) & IR prof (but also ex-🇨🇦 trade diplomat). PoliSciSky 🗺️, EnergySky 🔌💡, & GreenSky 🌱.
Cf. same handles on birdsite & mastodon.social/@robshum
Cf. same handles on birdsite & mastodon.social/@robshum
Economic policy — from a land of pure imagination 🎶. (28/n)
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Economic policy — from a land of pure imagination 🎶. (28/n)
Come on in coup-attempters: the doors of the vault have been blown open!
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Come on in coup-attempters: the doors of the vault have been blown open!
Where did we put that Washington Consensus we had? I swear it was right here a decade ago… (39/n)
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
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@bloomberg.com
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November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Where did we put that Washington Consensus we had? I swear it was right here a decade ago… (39/n)
Return to a hierarchical & tributary international (dis)order? (21/n)
The desired solution seems to be a tribute-based economy, where trade deficits are financed by inbound investment flows from countries believed to be dependent on US demand and/or defense, but entities doing the investment have zero control over the investment or income from it.
I cannot emphasize enough that increasing foreign investment in the US and shrinking US trade deficits are in direct, irreconcilable tension w/ one another.
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
*US TO LOWER TARIFF RATE ON SWISS GOODS TO 15%, GREER SAYS
*SWITZERLAND AGREED TO $200B INVESTMENT IN THE US, GREER SAYS
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Return to a hierarchical & tributary international (dis)order? (21/n)
LLMs: The Plaxico Burress of technologies. (11/n)
"[A]ttackers used the company’s artificial intelligence tools to write code that directed Anthropic’s A.I. agent, Claude Code, to perform the attack. The company said human operators accounted for 10 to 20 percent of the work required to conduct the operation."
Great job, everyone!
Great job, everyone!
Anthropic Says Chinese Hackers Used Its A.I. in Online Attack
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
LLMs: The Plaxico Burress of technologies. (11/n)
Unpopular opinion: This kind of identity politics is NOT helpful.
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Unpopular opinion: This kind of identity politics is NOT helpful.