... I was then trying to catch "worldviews", and I was impressed. Yesterday, as I was quoting him, Perry Mehrling passed, unexpectedly. The loss. So please take any of these books, or the New Lombard Street, and let yourself carry by his unique voice and writing style

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The dam broke so: I'm so shocked to find out that Perry Mehrling died. I had lots of disagreements with Perry but he was always very generous with me & was a big influence on my generation of heterodox monetary thinkers. No one did more to highlight the role of dealers in financial market governance

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Real number for this: a single 5-minute BTC market yesterday saw ~240 L2 order-book updates per second, sustained on one token for its whole ~5-minute life (217,780 messages, archived). Well past manual quoting speed; the market-making side already looks automated.

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Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open! Katrin Schmelz just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Requirements & application: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Ryan Zickgraf lost a job hosting trivia in 2022 after stumbling over the word "Nicaragua." Sorry, AOC, but you can't laugh off the harm you and other progressives did in those years. A must-read. unherd.com/2026/08/woke...

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