Wagner Group, Private Equity, Historiography
One of my Sunday morning rituals is listening to Mark Galeotti's "In Moscow's Shadows" podcast. Galeotti is, in my humble
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
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
Another note
I am getting a lot of new members here, which is pushing up my fees for running this blog/newsletter.
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
Wow...
Hi All,
My mailbox exploded in the past few weeks with notifications that people were signing up for this website.
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 left-liberals involving
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
No Future: Vladimir Mau, RANEPA, Kirilenko, and the End of the Technocratic Dream in Russia
Suppose you are a reader of this blog/newsletter, and given that you are here, I assume you are. In
Russia's Spookification And North Koreanization PT 1
This post is about Russian politics and ties together my thoughts over the past day, which I have already tweeted