For anyone in and around Brown tomorrow this is a must see event. Like leave work and go: I would but I’m on leave. So you should go literally in my stead. Thanks. events.brown.edu/rhodes-center/…

Here’s the poster for that event even though I think it already posted. Consider this a retweet.

This week in "stupid at a species level" we find that baked in climate change damages are six times current mitigation costs to deal with those damages. So any rational society would immediately pay them. Right? You know the answer: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Brilliant piece. Encapsulates so much of what has gone wrong and it just at Boeing. Well worth a read. Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

For those of a Portuguese persuasion (or with google translate) here's a long interview I did about my new book with Nicolò Fraccaroli on inflation in Publico. Enjoy: publico.pt/2024/04/26/eco… The pictures are fabulously odd as you will see. From blinded to shadow. Perhaps a comment?

Some thinking about the UK Labour Party with Matthias Matthijs in Foreign Affairs. Not paywalled. The term ‘homeopathic Bidenomics’ comes from Jonathan Hopkin. Credit where it’s due: foreignaffairs.com/united-kingdom…

Had a great chat with Kristin Surak about her book The Golden Passport. Citizenship commodified, brokered, and booming as a business. The 'Human Right to Capital Flight" is now the 'Business of Capitalists' Flight.' Enjoy the absurdity: player.captivate.fm/episode/fde567…

A ten min chat with Australian Breakfast news…have a listen Is southern Europe now powering the EU economy? abc.net.au/listen/program…

Late post for the weekend. Mark and Carrie latest episode. I usually use Safari to use this site but for some reason its blocking me and I have to use Chrome. Anyone else had that issue? Anyways, here's the latest M and C: player.captivate.fm/episode/ed5c1a…

When you know your out of a job and need as new one, it always helps to suck up to your future boss: ft.com/content/efe821… Shameless doesn't even get close...

Start the week with a great chat I had with Ben Clift about his book on the OBR in the UK. Sounds dry but it's an great story about trying to banish politics from budgets. Like risk management, the politics never goes away, it just gets displaced: player.captivate.fm/episode/268dd7…

Pretty much all that needs to be said about the UK general election in one place. Enjoy.

Now can someone tell me why Deadpool is at the Holland Turkey game?

Haven't been here for a while. I came back to post something and see #collapse is trending. There's only so much doom I can take. In the meantime, some nice thoughts about what Labour are doing by D-Squared: backofmind.substack.com/p/the-present-…

I was asked to comment in various elections, recent and forthcoming, and then do the compare and contrast. The result is here. It gets into some deep territory: player.captivate.fm/episode/8eb15d…

Seems to be a problem with the link that I posted to that Trending Globally interview. If you search for trending globally you will find a live link there - or - try this: trending-globally.captivate.fm/episode/this-s…

Anyone out there want to do a post doc with me and Benjamin Braun? Details here: apply.interfolio.com/147689