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2025-05
A conversation with Kevin Erdmann
Alignment is confinement
The asset side of the balance sheet
Overall but not bilateral balance
2025-04
How can taxing foreign investors balance trade?
Balance as a norm
Keynesian compromise
If we weren't idiots, Balance of Payments edition
2025-03
Delivering rough consensus
Voice of a Maryland
Meeting Starter
2025-02
A theory of Elons
A few simple points
Might Elon Musk be personally liable?
2025-01
Hard information, soft information, groupthink, corruption
2024-12
Segmentation fault
Wreckresentative democracy, "Secret Congress", and bee-sting theory
Wreckresentative democracy
2024-11
Plutocracy as a positive ideal
What does it mean to have no kings?
It's the parasocials, stupid
The coveted interfluidity endorsement
Private firms, public industries
2024-10
Midsize is the right size
Rule-of-law is incompatible with a sharply polarized two-party system
A Westphalian order is project enough
2024-09
Industrial policy without national champions
Abundance is overcapacity
Another man's poison
Income driven repayment of fixed capital
2024-08
No which tax on tips? Let it be FICA.
Competition and the form of the subsidy
Murdering Hayek
China as a model
What if we are not among the elect?
2024-07
We have not been betrayed
UBI and labor supply
Trump v. United States: Greatest Hits
If the issue was the lawfare
No longer a liberal democracy
2024-06
Superdelegates
It isn't sprawl if it's dense.
State capacity and authoritarianism
Yimboree
America is not already great
Authority minimization
Only the state can house us
Even the losers
The US Federal income tax in pictures
2024-05
Masculine virtues
Industrial policy and ecosystems
The long fistbump
2024-04
Out of the spotlight
The quality of what is coordinated
Of dentistry and democracy
Seeing like a CEO
Indirection and the character of capitalism (Part II)
Indirection and the character of capitalism (Part I)
2024-03
How to understand approval voting
Why does wage compression underwhelm?
A simple theory of the stock market
2024-02
What you are doing right now
Situated versus unsituated virtues
Demographic transition is just specialization and trade
Nimble nationality will define state capacity
2023-12
How to regulate AI
Norms mean you can't pull rank
There's no such thing as international law
2023-11
Obama was the most destructive political figure of my lifetime
How rights make wrongs
Pluralism or magnanimity?
The bad war, like all the wars
2023-10
Price rationing
The rhetoric of condemnation
National self-determination is a vicious idea
2023-08
Fascism as triage
2023-07
If I were the plutocracy
Degrowth for Whigs
Cornering the future
2023-06
Quietly expensive desperation
2023-05
Smeagols
Decommodification and health care utilization
We haunt
2023-04
Urgency
Two kinds of representation
Two parties make us stupid
Taiwan
Systemic means it's not your fault
Alignment is the problem of God's love
State as coordination
2023-03
Banks should fail much more often
Financial regulation is just debt covenants
Banks are not private
Unlimited deposit insurance
Libertarians and hierarchy
Dilution of faction requires voting system reform
Economists are such scoundrels
What is fascism?
Higher education is shockingly right-wing
2023-02
New College
Instead
Thick antitrust
Four quadrants of Section 230ishness
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