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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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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 8h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Or better support for capex subsidy

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

dcthings.bsky.social @dcthings.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Did not expect that!

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

*MOKYR, AGHION, HOWITT WON NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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)

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

The gang goes bankrupt trying to time the market

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

I don’t think we should be gassing up people who live in Portland like this. You’re going to get so much bad art out of that.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

Works terribly in excel and excel is lingua franca.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently artillery is now woke because it’s not manly special forces.

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 3d

That’s called the dialectic

Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 3d

The people’s jet of democratic socialism. The AK 47 of the sky.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 3d

And export them at the point of a bayonet.

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Praxis Thoughts Haver @praxisprocess.bsky.social · 3d

I legit think the Bulwark is going to endorse public financing for Worker Cooperatives in the next 2-4 years.

Praxis Thoughts Haver @praxisprocess.bsky.social · 3d

The Neocons realized that Liberal Democratic Socialism is the resolution of the Historical Dialectic.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 3d

Neocons come home to socialism

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"What FIFA has done is created another layer of gambling on top of gambling. Who would have thought that FIFA would become a creator of exotic financial instruments?" This is not unrelated to the fate of democracy.

Late-Stage Capitalism and Late-Stage Democracy

A unified theory of everything.

www.thebulwark.com

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 4d

I’m becoming one of those guys who writes very long VBA macros.

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 4d

Drill baby drill

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

$WTI CRUDE IS NOW BELOW $60 A BARREL!

A chart showing that on October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM, WTI Crude is priced at $58.37 a barrell, down $2.66 and 4.36 percent.

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工an🎃Monroe👹 @eean.dev · 4d

End of an era. RIP Housing Twitter, gone but not forgotten.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 4d

Big day for the posting to policy pipeline.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

America is not building enough housing and Americans are facing sky-high housing costs as a result.

Today, the Senate took a historic step to change that.

The ROAD to Housing Act will help communities – urban, suburban, and rural – build more housing and bring down costs.

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