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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The Central Dilemma of Industrial Policy: Jobs or Wages? open.substack.com/pub/martinma...

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The Central Dilemma of Industrial Policy: Jobs or Wages?

Wages. Always.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Two things I love most: business history and mechanical tool watches. If you share either of these passions, listen to this amazing episode of the Acquired Podcast on the amazing history of Rolex. www.acquired.fm/episodes/rolex

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Rolex | Acquired Podcast

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Rolex’s history and business strategy.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Trump has led Mexico to stem immigration, corporate America to ditch DEI, banks to leave the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, and Facebook to stop trying to moderate speech. And he has broken with his base on H1B immigration. I voted for Kamala and would again, but Mr. T is off to a strong start.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Revisionism is Underrated. Using the New Year to reconsider beliefs that didn't pan out. open.substack.com/pub/martinma...

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Revisionism is Underrated

Using a New Year to Reexamine Deeply Held Convictions

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This year, the first night of Hanukah is Christmas, as it was in 2005, 1959, and 1910. The Hebrew calendar, which is lunar, sets the date, so the Gregorian date moves around a bit. Has Hanukah gained in importance in the US because it falls near Christmas? Probably. Anyway, Merry Hanukah!

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

..and we are back. Oakland keeping it scary.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Russia fined Google $20 decillion US dollars. That’s a two followed by 34 zeros. That's more than the GDP of the entire planet for a thousand years. Glad that Vlad has a sense of humor. www.androidheadlines.com/2024/10/russ...

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Russia fined Google more than Earth's entire GDP for a Millennium

Russia has fined Google for not reinstating Russian TV channels that were blocked on YouTube, an absurd amount of money. We're talking about $20 decillion

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

In the last 50 years, Europe has not started a single company worth $100 billion today. The US started 21, and six of them are worth more than a trillion dollars. Europe sells the past. People like me who admire their cities, culture, and social policies should be very, very uneasy about that.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

TL;dr: -- 3% of active accounts are toxic, but they produce 33 % of all content -- 74 % of all online conflicts are started in just 1 % of communities -- 0.1 % of users shared 80 % of fake news www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms

The current paper explains how modern technology interacts with human psychology to create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. We argue that no…

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Why 70% Medicare for all is better than Medicare for All and better than shooting the messenger. open.substack.com/pub/martinma...

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The Seventy Percent Solution

70% Medicare For All is Better Than Shooting the Messenger

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Bibi Netanyahu is now fighting and winning on four fronts. -- West Bank expansion. -- Destroying Hamas in Lebanon -- Crushing Hamas in Gaza -- Eliminating all Russian/Syrian military assets. -- Seized Mt. Hermon and now commands Golan, Lebanon, and Syria. Bibi is winning. Popularity will follow.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

You think you live in a tough neighborhood? Look at a tribal map of the Middle East. unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-player...

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The Players of the Syrian Chessboard

What will Israel, Russia, Turkey, the Kurds, Europe, and Lebanon do?

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My case for a National Workplace Election Day, drugs named by bartenders, a bigger child tax credit, and getting some Tamiflu. www.moderntimes.blog/p/hot-takes-...

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Hot Takes for Cold Weather

National Workplace Election Day. Better drug names. A bigger child tax credit. Tamiflu.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Let bartenders name drugs. Lenacapavir, Omalizumab, Xanomeline-trospium, Trizepatide, and Osimertinib are huge breakthroughs, but nobody can pronounce, spell, or remember them. The folks who named Margaritas, Martinis, and Bloody Marys would do better. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/five-medic...

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Five medical breakthroughs in 2024

It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Calling Lina Kahn. Four companies — Cavendish Farms, Lamb Weston, McCain Foods, and the JR Simplot Company control nearly all of the $68 billion frozen-potato market. They seem to have pricing power.

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Marty Manley @martymanley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The Danish economy grew 3.2% in the last twelve months. How much of that growth was Ozempic and Wegovy, the GLP weight loss drugs sold by Novo Nordisk? All of it. Without these drugs, the Danish economy is not growing at all. www.apricitas.io/p/weight-los...?

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Weight Loss Drugs Continue to Power Denmark's Economy

Exports of GLP-1 Drugs like Ozempic & Wegovy are Driving the Majority of Danish GDP Growth

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