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Yakov Feygin

@buddyyakov.bsky.social

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Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 5h

That and general capex adjacent. Fortunately there will be some meat there.

Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 8h

Good piece on multi-billion dollar *zero-revenue* speculative energy companies, incl Sam's Oklo and one run by the ex-CEO of a failed anti-woke bank >>
Heard on the Street: Forget about the froth in tech valuations. The real excess might be building up in energy stocks. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

The Frothiest AI Bubble Is in Energy Stocks

Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has backed the biggest of these energy companies.

www.wsj.com

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve told you how regularly rolling out sanctions packages clogs up the system and slows everything down, even the stuff that ISN’T sanctioned.

Here’s a good example, and proof that cross border transactions are still a problem, even if they don’t talk about it much publicly.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 22h

East German border guard shooting policy but the death strip is the Caribbean and the targeting profile is “men in boats”. No wonder they can‘t find even military lawyers used to signing off on the most dubious of drone strikes to approve this outright murder.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 22h

God I hope this is my last year of that shit.

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 22h

So yeah lots of confounders and such.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 22h

It sparks a wave of empire building among native groups in the mid and southwest.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 22h

I think that the lit as it’s evolved emphasizes the broader changes that come along with contact that helps explain how populations change so rapidly and transmit new illnesses. For example the introduction of horses changes mobility so much you have social changes even ahead of European contact.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

in the same way that anti-trust regulates mergers because it does not do (for the functioning of the overall economy) to have the supply side excessively enriching itself at the expense of the demand side, one would think "consumers" have a natural economic right to protection here

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Israel kills several Palestinians in Gaza strikes on.ft.com/3KPgE5w

Israel kills several Palestinians in Gaza strikes

Attack on Gazans inspecting homes comes days after fragile ceasefire goes into effect

on.ft.com

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah but it also is the best way to keep prices down because of turn difference in elasticity between rate base and fiscal space.

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

Or better support for capex subsidy

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 2d

Awarding the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to someone for their work on how tech innovations generate economic growth only when ppl understand why they work is an interesting thing to do in a moment when AI’s most ardent proponents can’t explain how it works

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2d

Etch this into stone at every public policy MA program in America:

dcthings.bsky.social @dcthings.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely embarrassing that no senior leaders I interact with actually read anything (yes this also applies to Biden appointees). No one responds to emails, no one reads past two sentences, no one does anything. The rest of the Pentagon follows along.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

This is why I’m moderately pro LNG. It’ll force up the us prices closer to global levels.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

Did not expect that!

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

*MOKYR, AGHION, HOWITT WON NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 2d

Do not, do NOT, DO NOT shine lasers at aircraft.

You can’t tell the difference between a tank and a police armored car, or between a machine gun and a sniper rifle; I don’t trust you to distinguish between a fed chopper and a medical helo.

Either way, if it goes down on a house, that’s suboptimal.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)