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Unlearning Economics
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Economist, YouTuber, gamer, author, academic (in that order)

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The Death of Free Trade
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“0% woke shit”

a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Go Spain! This article doesn’t mention their aggressively progressive policies to help people with the cost of living crisis: price cap on energy, subsidies for households, and tax cuts

www.reuters.com/default/spai...
Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics
Spain remains the euro zone’s fastest growing economy, outperforming its peers yet again in the third quarter. The Iberian country’s successful policy mix offers several lessons that fly in the face of global political trends.
www.reuters.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
cool
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Can someone please tell me which book this is from bsky.app/profile/shar...
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Man, how can you publish this tripe in the Big Issue of all place? bsky.app/profile/bigi...
Politics is in a vibes era. Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski are proof of that. But maybe Keir Starmer can take positivity from Ruben Amorim.
What Keir Starmer can learn from Ruben Amorim
www.bigissue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is exactly the kind of thing I expected from 'Abundance' and exactly the kind of thing it failed to deliver bsky.app/profile/ryan...
it's not the rules so much (solar can be quite dangerous) it's how obnoxious and burdensome it is to comply with them. a whole bunch of complicated ass paperwork you either have to assemble yourself or pay someone $$$ to fill out. and then getting approved takes months
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It’s funny that most people would consider writing a book beyond them. Most books are just fucking dreadful.
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
My friend Chris was quoted extensively in this Scientific American article about Russia’s nuclear cruise missiles

www.scientificamerican.com/article/russ...
What Is Burevestnik, Russia’s New Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile?
Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed his nation conducted a successful flight of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Here’s how that missile might work
www.scientificamerican.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Wealth tax is not a revenue raiser, it is primarily about inequality and the myriad economic, political, and social problems it generates.

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Increasingly I think the point of a wealth tax is not to raise money but to create space for raising income tax. The lethal thing in politics is when the compliant middle class feels like they have been taken for mugs; if you want to get money out of them, someone else needs to pay more too.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Anybody know of any up to date left-ish books on housing, finance, crisis, etc.? All of them seem like 10 years out of date now...
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Herbert Simon on the internet and attention, 1996
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The rise of genuine left candidates has exposed so many flaws in the analysis of the centre. They just don’t have much to say about things because they see the world through a severely damaged lens.

(In other words, Scaramucci is awful in this)

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121. Inside Trump’s Explosive Shouting Match with Zelenskyy
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October 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Watch my lecture on my book Why We're Getting Poorer at LSE!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IImv...
Why we're getting poorer | LSE Event
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October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Absolutely disgusting story about the flotilla detainees, any historical comparisons you might want to make are undoubtedly apt

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Cannot get into Alien Earth. No idea what the hype is about
October 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL! My actual book launch event - which is only 6 months late - is at LSE October 13th, you can sign up here:

www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-w...
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM