Tom Yemm

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That’s nasty. But perhaps you could link to, and comment upon, that recent NYT piece on financialization and the Econ Herd. Certainly that’s of a piece with the damage to our society being done by the owner of X and the AI Investor Herd.

@RageSheen Poetry thesis

Trump of course weaponised the term ‘elites’, as populists always do. Others tap the same conspiratorial vibe talking about ‘the top 1%’. Elites are just the current tops of social status hierarchies. They have ALWAYS run all human groups, and societies. With one exception. The period from 1945-1975, approximately. When repair of the catastrophic damage caused by two world wars, a pandemic and economic collapse pushed elites to one side. That created a ‘public’, a ‘we’, the structuring principle of social repair. Most of us grew up inside that ‘we’ and now wonder what happened to it. Status games have been dismantling it for half a century, to return human life to the historical default, for thousands of years. International status hierarchies, topped by kings or their equivalent.

Any economist conversant in “political economy” over the past two generations knows this. Financialization is just Epsteinization spelled backwards. Or the reverse. Class culpability. Not of the one percent but of the tenth of that. It’s not easy to wrap one’s head around this.

Any economist conversant in “political economy” over the past two generations knows this. Financialization is just Epsteinization spelled backwards.

@Claudia_Sahm I’m wishing most of all for your continued good health, subtle wit, and devastating analysis. Xoxo

I was disappointed that the communication policy reboot never made it out of the framework review. I have fussed a lot about the Fed's communication over the years. I suspect I will regret having been so critical next year. Be careful what you wish for ...

I'm generally not a big fan of the FOMC minutes. I get most of what I need from the meeting statement, presser, and forecasts. However, I have been trying to enjoy all the trappings of the Fed. Change is coming ...

@buitengebieden Is there any way for my friends not on this platform to share in your bounty of uplifting animal-forward contributions to our benighted world? TIA

"Hey guys! What are we looking at?” 😅 #BestOf2025

@Claudia_Sahm I’m always struck by the fact that only economists, and the politicians who peruse their top lines, think and write in YOY-ese. That’s a convenient convention but may not square with sentiment. Alternative? Like some integral?

No shortcuts to affordability. We need years of income and wages rising faster than prices to undo the damage done during the pandemic. It’s more than restoring the ability to pay. It’s about improvements large enough to inspire confidence. It’s about consistency, too. stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/there-are-no…

Call it affordability, vibes, politics ... asking people how they're doing financially has been a grim exercise for some time. Only 21% in the 4th quarter said they're better off financially than a year ago, near Great Recession lows. Drop in 3 steps: pandemic '20, high inflation '21-22, and past year.

@jeffjarvis Just to add one thought (though I turned my 90-year-old uncle on to the kindle edition as well): I also am tutoring suspended/homebound highschool students in Connecticut, and all those previous formats you mention are lost to them. Their education has been completely Chromebookd

@tyemm And one point of the book is that one does not supersede all that came before. Progress is additive. Scribal culture + print + fiction, the essay, the newspaper + mechanized media + magazines + broadcast + internet. Not minus.

The technological puritanism of old media and education: We Owe It to College Students to Create Tech-Free Spaces nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opi…

@rwdcsw @DeanBaker13 Oh no—walked the Crum??

@DeanBaker13 Good one! Hassert is a baaaaad Swattie

Kevin passed his lie projector test with flying colors!

Or at least doze off like that other New Yorker

I suppose this is the “primary ‘em!” list, hopefully a short one.

@AugieNash You want the dial on 1120 AM there

I can remember riding around with my Dad on many evenings, just to listen to Cardinals ballgames because the home radio wouldn't pull the game in if it was storming. Static and all - life was good back then. #STLCards

@alexL_E_I @MollyJongFast Everyone recalls Curtis & Lisa.

these photos are insane

@RageSheen Or consider: Barrington Moore—Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. A viable bourgeoisie are a check upon the dictator.

And again, if you can’t see the same pattern playing out again today in the US, with their current robber barons circling Trump to try to get the greatest share of their own status, then open your eyes. We’ve arrived at the next Gilded Age. Try some Veblen. /end

The more social life becomes the winning of pointless daily team sports status battles on social media, the more we stop seeing repeated historical patterns. America has arrived at its next Gilded Age. Veblen wrote one of the guidebooks. /1

@jeffjarvis @SenSchumer @RepJeffries @SenGillibrand @GovKathyHochul @ZohranKMamdani They’re hopeless, unfortunately; ZM will have to win without them, or their Hampton’s check writers.

Goddamnit, @SenSchumer, @RepJeffries, @SenGillibrand, @GovKathyHochul, it is time to endorse @ZohranKMamdani. Your nonendorsement is an endorsement of Trump and his puppet. At Hamptons Fund-Raiser, Cuomo Predicts Help From Trump Is on the Way nytimes.com/2025/08/19/nyr…

@hochman Salah (and my 10-year-old son)

Oquendo

@samstein @MollyJongFast A gift like the American embassy built by Soviets in Moscow, wiring included.

At no point in this article is it written that administration officials weighed whether it was wise to just not accept the plane, even if they could do so legally. abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…