It makes me despondent that most contemporary writing is insufferable, but I take great solace in the fact that, clearly, there is still plenty of literary drama.

I’m honestly honored to be featured with a lengthy interview in this upcoming issue of Granta on the theme of EXTRACTION, alongside some writers whose work I love and have learned so much from…. Coming soon!!

Not sure whether I would describe this kind of arrogance as ‘chilling’ or ‘childish’ or some unsavoury combination thereof.

'Investment-based decarbonization programs will have to differ from country to country. Worryingly, this is a task in which leaders in Europe and beyond are coming up drastically short.'

phenomenalworld.org/analysis/liber…

They bought the company, underinvested, saddled it with billions of debt, polluted rivers but ran off right before the company was fined, made huge returns, and then apparently lent money to the new owners.
Tell me again how PE is 'productive finance'.
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

New Left EViews

Und Claudia Roth klammert sich an ihr Amt, indem sie Unsägliches sagt. Hätte es wirklich antisemitische Reden auf der Preisverleihung gegeben, hätte die Kulturstaatsministerin natürlich intervenieren müssen.

Anglophone authors’ refusal to read French and German comes at a steep cost : )

*burp*

Are we supposed to feel sorry for these assholes now? Come on.

Billigung und Verharmlosung von Kriegsverbrechen. Offenbar nicht strafbar wenn es um Kriegsverbrechen gegen Palästinenser*innen geht.

Singapore: weird authoritarian shopping mall-based society? Yes. But the best damn national carrier and airport in the world.

The unprecedented surge in investment in electronics manufacturing, and only electronics manufacturing, immediately after the CHIPS Act was passed, seems about as close to a smoking gun as you are ever going to get. x.com/IrvingSwisher/…

Good work from Yak here. Different ways to define overcapacity and its political economy consequences + policy implications:
- as underconsumption
- as spare / standby capacity
- as monopolization
- as “misallocated” capacity

me and my mutuals

I hear there's a debate about a certain superpower's government-subsidized overcapacity that far outstrips domestic demand and that is flooding global markets and stoking conflict.

Glad the issue is finally on the table.

I've mostly dropped out of the inflation debate over the past few months. Catching up now by reading Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 and Employ America. And what I'm learning is that the case that inflation was entirely a matter of transitory supply disruptions is even stronger than I'd thought.

'That's a kind of conversation between the sword and the neck.'

Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani was born on this day in 1936.

John Turturro is a Roma fan!

Germany when you tell them to not do megausterity during a recession for no reason and with no benefits