ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm just saying that if any candidate ran on the single issue of insisting that all political ads come with "side effects may include" as required of pharmaceuticals, I would vote for her or him. 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"To be a philosopher, you've got to be astounded by what any sane person takes for granted." - John Searle, philosopher of social ontology 010
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Power is not something you own; it is something that appears only when people act together and disappears when they scatter. - Hannah Arendt 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"If you took all the fools out of the legislature, it would not be a representative body anymore." - Texas State Senator Carl Parker 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Somewhere along the line there was a mix-up. Someone observed that "nobody uses faxes anymore," and further down the chain of transmission it arrived as "nobody uses facts anymore." No one has been able to confirm the original wording, though. There's no paper trail. 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026One more reason to get a shingles vaccine. The Economist just reported that "One of the most exciting scientific findings in recent years is that a course of the shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia by about 20%." 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026My new book shows today's politics as part of a pattern of progress. We've had 4 Americas since the founding - Jefferson's agricultural economy, Lincoln's industrial, FDR's full-employment and Reagan's information economy. Now we can choose to create a fifth America. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6P5MZ6Z/amazon.comNew Politics for the Next Economy: The Critical Chain of Progress: Davison, Ron: 9798183725865: Amazon.com: BooksNew Politics for the Next Economy: The Critical Chain of Progress [Davison, Ron] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. New Politics for the Next Economy: The Critical Chain of Progress 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The New York Knicks made the NBA Finals. New Yorkers had to liquidate some of their stocks to get money for seats for the home games, so last week (June 1 - 5) represented one of the sharper sell-offs of stocks in 2026, the NASDAQ dropping about 5%. 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Remembering the Planners on D-Day rwrld.blogspot.com/2026/06/reme... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Bedlam here in Southern California. It's Taco Tuesday AND Cinco de Mayo. 010
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026When thinking about tax breaks and safety nets, it is worth remembering that a random American this year is 5,000x more likely to go bankrupt than become a billionaire. 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The quality of our future may depend on whether AI sees us more the way we see dogs and cats or cows and chickens. 010
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026In 2024, the economy created more than 2 million jobs. In all of 2025 it created fewer jobs than were created in just the fourth quarter of 2024. Jobs created 2024 2.012 million 2025 .584 million 020
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 09/01/20262025 was the slowest rate of job creation (outside of COVID) since the Great Recession. 020
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Karma sutra. An awkward position you find yourself in as the result of some stupid thing you did in the past. 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Job numbers Nov 2024: Unemployment rate 4.2% Number unemployed 7.1 million. Nov 2025: Unemployment rate 4.6% Number unemployed 7.8 million The AVERAGE monthly rate of job creation: In Donald Trump's First 3 months in office: 127,000 Most recent 7 months: 17,000 In Joe Biden's 48 months: 336,000 010
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025George Will makes the case for predictability in institutional behavior as key to stable diplomatic and economic relationships ... suggesting that the US has suffered a long term loss because of Trump's tariffs and volatile policy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKp9...youtube.comU.S. Coffee Collapse: Canada Quietly Took Over the Market Overnight | George WillYouTube video by George Will Insights 000
Reposted by @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Americans' views of the job market are the most negative Gallup has recorded since the closing days of Trump’s first term, in January 2021 during the pandemic. 618664
Reposted by @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Economic confidence just dropped to a 17-month low, per Gallup. And that's not the only bad news... (short 🧵) news.gallup.com/poll/699311/... 522385
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” - H. L. Mencken, 1920 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025"Conspiracy theories have come to define what it means to be a conservative in America today." - Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social 000
Reposted by @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/11/2025It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution. 1928376527560
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 23/11/2025The Dow reached a closing high of 381.17 on September 3 1929. It wasn’t until November 23 1954 that the Dow finally closed above that 1929 level again. A 1929-style crash and recovery starting from a 2025 peak would imply new highs in 2050. 010
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025This summer the economy is creating about as many jobs per month as it did last summer per week. May through September: Monthly average for 2024: 136,000 Monthly average for 2025: 39,000 020
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025New blog post: Job Creation Slows for 2025 rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/11/job-...rwrld.blogspot.comJob Creation Slows for 2025We now have job and unemployment numbers through September. Unemployment is steadily ticking up, now the highest it has been in nearly 4 ye... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 03/10/2025New blog post: Falling Off a Cliff with a Blindfold - Job Loss Blackout During Trump's Government Shutdown rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/10/fall...rwrld.blogspot.comFalling Off a Cliff with a Blindfold - Job Loss Blackout During Trump's Government ShutdownThe economy is losing jobs but we don't know how many. Each month the BLS reports the number of jobs lost or gained. ADP is the private sect... 020
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall 020
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Did you know that Donald Trump is the only president in history to have never won a general election against another man? Donald. The last resort of American misogynists. 220
Reposted by @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'" 242211666
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025President Trump claimed the Amish don’t get autism - which I find strange because the spelling of the two words is so similar. 020
Reposted by @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I feel like anyone who is less concerned than Ty Cobb should just drape themselves in swastikas right now 7566146
Reposted by @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2025“.. For example, it is unusual for the prices of toys to rise on a year-over-year basis. Prior to the Covid-era inflation bulge, the last time CPI toy prices were rising on a year-on-year basis was in August 1997. .. CPI furniture price gains have also shot up.” 716441
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025New blog post: Charlie Kirk Shooting a Reminder of How Warped is the NRA's Interpretation of the 2nd Amendment rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/char...rwrld.blogspot.comCharlie Kirk Shooting a Reminder of How Warped is the NRA's Interpretation of the 2nd AmendmentThe killing of Charlie Kirk is first and foremost a tragedy - another life lost to gun violence, another family left grieving. Kirk, weirdly... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025New post: Mike the Chimp and Trump's Rise to Power in the Information Economy rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/trum...rwrld.blogspot.comMike the Chimp & Trump's Rise to Power in the Information EconomyHere’s Jane Goodall’s vivid account from My Life with the Chimpanzees , describing Mike’s breakthrough display with kerosene cans: “Mike’s r... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025New blog post: Trump's Tariffs Terrible for Job Creation rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/trum... Closing line: Last year the economy was creating more jobs per day than it has created each week since Trump's big tariff announcement.rwrld.blogspot.comTrump's Tariffs Terrible for Job CreationOn April 2, 2025, President Trump unveiled sweeping "reciprocal tariffs" during a televised event he dubbed “Liberation Day.” The announceme... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025New post: Labor Day, Women and Frances Perkins rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/labo...rwrld.blogspot.comLabor Day, Women and Frances Perkins"Even the simple act of a woman standing up and speaking to a crowd is relatively new. Think about it: we know of only a handful of speeches... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” - Aldous Huxley 010
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 28/08/2025You don’t hear more about “rural white rage” because it’s nearly impossible to say without slurring your words - you either sound drunk or like you’re mid-stroke. "What's wrong with you?" "I'm seized by rurrow why tage." "What?" "Ruror why age!" "What are you saying? And why are you so angry?" 010
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025new blog post: Millennials have faced more career stress than any generation alive rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/mill...rwrld.blogspot.comMillennials have faced more career stress than any generation aliveBaby Boomers were born into postwar abundance. Wartime technological advances translated into peacetime prosperity; wages rose, jobs were pl... 000
Reposted by @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.socialPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025While Trump makes broad claims to try to curtail voting, in fact voter fraud in the US is extremely rare. In six swing states in 2020, there were about 475 potential cases of fraud out of 25.5 million votes cast, according to an @apnews.com study @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...nytimes.comHow We Vote 1815259
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025New blog post: Average Wages in Silicon Valley Are Not Just 2 to 3X the National Average - They Understate Actual Compensation rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/aver...rwrld.blogspot.comAverage Wages in Silicon Valley Are Not Just 2 to 3X the National Average - They Understate Actual CompensationSilicon Valley isn’t just paying the highest wages in the country - it’s doing it at a pace only two other places can match: King County (ho... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The president makes about as much in a day as the average American makes in a week. By contrast, one of the 350 top paid CEOs in the country makes about as much in a day as their average worker makes in a year. 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025“This blustering revel of tariffs and travel bans makes us mocked by other nations; they call us boors and bullies, and the good we once stood for is eclipsed by our vices.” - Hamlet (only slightly modified), Act 1 Scene 4 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025"Control of consciousness determines the quality of life." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 10/08/2025"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down." - Toni Morrison 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025New blog post: Reagan, Fox, MSNBC, and Simplifying the Mess of Reality rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/reag...rwrld.blogspot.comReagan, Fox, MSNBC, and Simplifying the Mess of RealityIn the Industrial Economy, value was created in steel mills and assembly lines. In the Information Economy, it is often created in studios a... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025New blog post: "David Bromwich of Yale argues that totalitarianism is partly about denying the inherent contradictions in the world" rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/davi...rwrld.blogspot.comDavid Bromwich's Claim that Totalitarianism Provides a Simplification of the WorldDavid Bromwich of Yale argues that totalitarianism is partly about denying the inherent contradictions in the world, as much a quest for wor... 000
ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social @ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025New blog post: Hannah Arendt on Loneliness and the Temptation of Totalitarianism rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/hann...rwrld.blogspot.comHannah Arendt on Loneliness and the Temptation of TotalitarianismAfter World War II, Hannah Arendt set out to understand how totalitarianism could take root in modern societies. In *The Origins of Totalita... 000
