This Justin Wolfers post contains one VERY interesting insight. It’s this graph. Look at that! That post-2020 spike feels VERY vibecession-related. I think this is something worth considering as strongly related to the whole mystery. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/its-not-th...

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It's not true that things we think of as necessities are exploding in cost while things we think of as luxuries become much more cheap to balance out the CPI. This is a popular myth people use to explain why people would treat modest inflation like they historically treated extreme inflation.

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The intersection of virtually unrestricted cash gifts to the executive, an unrestricted executive pardon power, and a Congress unable or unwilling to utilize the impeachment power is virtually fatal to democracy.

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Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

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In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.

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