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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can’t believe how many people have tuned out the news and don’t realize our democracy is on the brink of collapse
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I feel this one. I hate what our government is doing to its citizens. I'd say that we deserve better, but do we?🤔
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
1/2 Caixin: "China defended its large current-account surplus, saying the funds generated by its export strength are recycled into overseas investments that support industries and financial markets abroad." www.caixinglobal.com/2026-09-11/c...
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China Defends Export-Fueled Surplus
Foreign exchange regulator pushes back against international concerns over trade imbalances, highlighting that outbound investments averaged more than $500 billion annually in recent years
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
2/2 A current account surplus is always balanced by a capital account deficit. What really matters to global growth is whether the capital outflow is directed into higher investment in developing economies or into lower saving in advanced economies. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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Trade Intervention for Freer Trade
By targeting specific trade violations rather than balanced flows, global trade policy has been focusing on the wrong outcome. New trade rules are needed to create an international trading system in w...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Local man says he views Gal Gadot as his girlfriend. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump says he views strait of Hormuz as ‘American territory’
President at rally in South Carolina makes comments on key strategic waterway and jokes about bombing Iran
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great to see: a NYT piece on how people here and around the world are increasingly telling Trump to eat shit and die www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u... Seeing two Trump-backed candidates just barely scrape by in SC and OK primaries is also a good sign.
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In Canada and at Home, Deference to Trump Turns to Defiance on Tariffs and Other Issues
While the president remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously than at the beginning of his second term.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The rich people who own the media want to take your Social Security rather than have their taxes raised deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-rich-o...
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The Rich Own the Media They Want to Take Your Social Security
Jeff Bezos’s paper says the government should cut your Social Security, not raise his taxes
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“There’s this famous 80-year old we need to you to bring in.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Hold on, not that one. This one appeared in Home Alone 2.” Grim Reaper: “Done!” “Would you please stop and just listen to the rest of the instructions?”
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The same people who brought you explosive diarrhea lettuce now bring you a toilet paper shortage.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
How lovely… 🌳📖 #BookSky
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's insane that inventory trends look like this and the market is like "eh, the President says it will all work out".
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 27/07/2026
More dog owners need to see this..... 😂 😂
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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
that school textbooks always attributed the discovery of fission to "Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner." Possibly even "Meitner and Hahn," which would make sense since she was the senior author of the key paper.
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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The famous Smyth Report, also in 1945, mentions her, pairing her with Otto Frisch as having told Neils Bohr "their guess that the absorption of a neutron sometimes caused the uranium nucleus to split into approximately equal parts." I can't swear to it, but my recollection as a kid in the fifties is
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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
She got a raw deal on the Nobel, but she wasn't forgotten or erased or sneered at like Watson sneered at Rosalind Franklin. Here's a book published in November, 1945, "The Atomic Age Opens," a collection of articles about "atomic" physics for laypeople:
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yeah, I'm German and I learned about her in school. Most people that know anything about physics know who she is, at least in Germany. And she was also recognized amongst her peers during her lifetime. Max Planck nominated her for the Nobel Prize half a dozen times.
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maxwj.bsky.social @maxwj.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A case can be made she also should have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Her contribution was critical. But the overwrought phrase, "her name was erased from the discovery she made" is untrue to a comical degree. Her accomplishment has long been widely recognized in science.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Evergreen post: He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives
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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If they let me into the White House Press Room, my question would be "Is the ceasefire in the room with us right now?"
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What are the chances!
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"The Death of Mitch McConnell" is the "Death of Stalin" sequel we never knew we needed.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I hate to say this, but Donald Trump was so right about “Lil Marco”.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I know so many otherwise intelligent people who still don't realize how badly this ends. They think it's all just going fine.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
1/4 Caixin: "China’s push to rein in excessive competition in its auto market reached a climax in 2025, as policymakers moved to stamp out a relentless price war that has inflicted severe pain on carmakers, suppliers and dealerships." www.caixinglobal.com/2026-01-02/y...
caixinglobal.com
Year in Review: Toxic Competition Drives China to Rein in Auto Price War
Government intervention has curbed explicit discounting and improved gross margins, but aggressive pricing of new models persists, especially in the NEV sector
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
1/11 Philip Coggan: "It is a mug’s game trying to predict the end of a boom with any precision. They last much longer than anyone might reasonably expect. That is true of bull markets, as well as economic advances. The reason is that markets... @philipcoggan.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/2ae4...
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What a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom
So much of bubble activity is driven by feedback loops, dubbed reflexivity by the well-known investor
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
10/11 That is why these sequences are so dangerous – they can take in the whole economy. When eventually either excessive debt or stricter policies rein in the market, it is not just property developers who suffer. A wide range of agents can get caught up in the adjustment.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
11/11 Some economists insist that you cannot say that a market is in a bubble when presumably rational investors say it isn't. But the economy itself can shift investment away from"rational" behavior as long as agents have different risk preferences and realistic time horizons.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
If this happens - 5% for the year, mind you, not a single quarter - then hats off. But if it doesn’t happen, these people should never be taken seriously again. Skin in the game, right?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Used to? Hell, I had it in the Army in the 1990s, on a regular basis.
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jmeek.bsky.social @jmeek.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Tesla faces class action over Powerwall recall that leaves people with bricked batteries
Tesla’s poorly handled Powerwall 2 recall is now turning into a potential class action lawsuit over for leaving people with...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Surprise!
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The way CEOs, media figures, and self-declared “thought leaders” behave towards Trump, you’d think his favorable/unfavorable polls were the exact opposite of what they actually are.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I see they have called in the famous and eccentric detective.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Trump’s “message”: I am a king and I douse you all in shit. I say go ahead and amplify it.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Well, at least you know where they stand.
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jmeek.bsky.social @jmeek.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Oh, no. No. It's The Ballroom.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm not trying to suggest it. I'm flat-out saying it.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
RIP Jane Goodall 🙏 Her Trump description: "I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another"
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We don’t even know who did this or why. We imagine that we can guess, but history is replete with examples of why even entirely logical guesses could be wrong. We should stop drawing conclusions until we have actual facts we can base them on.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Besides the internal contradiction, this is a historically dumb statement. The eradication of smallpox? Of cholera? Yellow fever? This man is a moron.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The media's attitude is that the country is evenly split between sane and insane people, so we need to hear both sides.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Well said.
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
one of the most insufferable things the NYT does is run a story and then spend half of the page talking about itself and its reporters
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I received a pair of interesting documents last week from a FOIA request, wherein Los Alamos scientists in 1947 and 1949 tried to answer the question: “How many nukes would it take to make the atmosphere dangerously radioactive?” You can read the reports here: doomsdaymachines.net/p/irradiatin...
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Irradiating the planet
Los Alamos scientists calculate the limits of radioactivity, 1947-1949
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