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U.S.A. facts of the day
Basically, the 2022 numbers — which you can see summarized in  the Fed’s report  — tell a really encouraging story. In a nutshell: Ameri...
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A Landmark of Black Cinema, Restored for a New Age
Mongo 27 October 2023
The British director Horace Ové struggled to get his 1975 film, “Pressure,” made and released. Now, weeks after his death, a new restoration...
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 Too busy to make social media content?
I hear from people all the time how they don’t have time in their day to make content for the internet. When all they have to do is manage t...
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Friday assorted links
1. The culture that was German . 2. “ The profit share has been constant at 18% of GDP because the increase in monopoly rents has been comp...
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What are markets telling us about the Middle Eastern war?
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column , here is one excerpt: Despite the continuing war in the Middle East, most markets have be...
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The Biggest Billboard is FREE
In today's digital world, people play two roles: 1) A media company and 2) ...themselves. Back in the day, you had to pay for almost eve...
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*GOAT* on Gary Becker
Written by me, from my new generative book: Most of all, for me, Becker was a true “micro-machine,” a relentless, unstoppable thinker, ana...
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Emergent Ventures Africa, fourth cohort
Sokhar Samb  is a Data Scientist from Senegal. Her EV grant supports her work of drone mapping Senegalese cities and towns such as Dakar and...
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Jonathan Majors’s Accuser Is Arrested but Won’t Face Prosecution
Mongo 26 October 2023
Grace Jabbari, who accused the actor of assaulting her in a car, was herself arrested on a countercomplaint.
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What is it we do and do not know about macroeconomics?
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column , here is one excerpt: Another episode frequently cited as evidence against economists is ...
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