May 20 A Few More Disorganized Thoughts on Belausov I have a few more thoughts based on what I have heard and read over the weekend. A few commentators, May 20, 2024 3 min read
May 16 On Belausov First, it's been a long time since I wrote anything in this newsletter. There are many reasons for May 16, 2024 4 min read
Sep 03 Wagner Group, Private Equity, Historiography One of my Sunday morning rituals is listening to Mark Galeotti's "In Moscow's Shadows" Sep 3, 2023 8 min read
Aug 07 Some Russian Fiscal and Monetary Politics Watching This post has been a while in coming, and I am behind many things due to some turbulence in my Aug 7, 2023 4 min read
May 22 Reading Club Update and The Role of Theory and History (also stuff on dollars and BRI) A few weeks ago, I did a poll on what to do for a premium feature on this website, and May 22, 2023 7 min read
May 06 Another note I am getting a lot of new members here, which is pushing up my fees for running this blog/newsletter. May 6, 2023 2 min read
Apr 15 Economists We'll Be Talking About: Wassily Leontief My theory of how economics interacts with policy is a bit more complicated than some more popular accounts. Very good Apr 15, 2023 9 min read
Apr 12 Wow... Hi All, My mailbox exploded in the past few weeks with notifications that people were signing up for this website. Apr 12, 2023 2 min read
Mar 21 Dark Brandon and American Liberal's Disillusionment with Europe There is a running meme on the internet with relatively left-leaning, younger folks who we'd take to be Mar 21, 2023 6 min read
Mar 13 SVB, Bailouts, and How to Regulate Capitalism The SVB bailout has made me very mad. Not because it is a particularly egregious bailout. Compared to the 2008 Mar 13, 2023 6 min read