20. Further, some of the anti-regulation voices today expressly or implicitly challenge the basic idea of planning. But planning is inevitable and essential, especially for infrastructure like the grid. The question is who does it and whether it is done well.

23. A public power program today, led by the states or better yet federal government, could bring a long-term systems approach and build ample clean energy capacity across the country newrepublic.com/article/183786…

"Our cities are full"

If you love your country, and say you would die for your country… then first do math and reading for your country.

this has been going on for 50 years. Read Seymour Melman's book, 'Profits without Production', from 1983. Only a huge infrastructure program can rebuild manufacturing at this point

"We're going to build power lines all over the country and bring you electricity to make your life easier!" Today, Dems are like "Here's a 900 page guidance document on what is and isn't considered green hydrogen." Surely we could simplify some of it, but some of it..

go visit your local shop and learn before it's too late there's 25,000+ machine shops and fabricators in the US, but you never really here about them it's usually a 50+ year old owner and 10 - 50 employees building critical parts for aero, auto, defense, medical, etc they

China has developed overlapping tech-industrial ecosystems, connected through firms and technologies. This creates a mutually reinforcing feedback loop where progress in one industry bolsters China's position in others. My latest High Capacity piece: high-capacity.com/p/chinas-overl…

This is a brilliant chart of China's tech-industrial ecosystems, by Kyle Chan. Most of us economists don't understand that clusters of technological capabilities cut across our categories of 'sectors' and 'industries'. This chart gets that across in a fantastic way.

Jostein Hauge Seymour Melman is one of the few who analysed industrial systems precisely in this fashion. One of his leading students, Jon Rynn, carries on this tradition today

My latest article, ngodisarm.org/us-decline-and…

Excellent discussion of the possibilities of national planning, and how it occurred in World War II: youtube.com/watch?v=G645fh…

In case you were wondering how 7 grams of plastic ended up in your brain, if you pull over (in a safe spot!) and park your car (legally!), you can google it. But here, LMGTFY: It's mostly just your car's tires. You're converting your body into them. cnn.com/2025/02/03/hea…

But it’s not even as innocent as the billions in direct/indirect subsidies that Democrats and climate activists gave him for his cars — most of which are bought by liberal Democrats in blue states. It’s that they *spent over a decade denying all the evidence he was a fraud.*

My version: counterpunch.org/2024/11/29/the…

This is the moment DOGE started: that interview of Trump by Musk on X, last August, when they were busy laughing about firing workers -- which should have been broadcast by the Dems 24/7: youtu.be/Q9QiGyHSyAI?si…

Infrastructure spending percent of GDP USA : 0.5% China : 4.8% Defence spending percent of GDP USA : 3.5% China : 1.6%

Social theorists identify automation as the main cause of unemployment and the future launchpad for a high-tech post-scarcity world. But Aaron Benanav argues the problem is the stagnation of global capitalism and its inability to generate enough jobs. jacobin.com/2023/02/automa…

CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as “belligerent idiots,” “outright Nazis,” “cowards,” and “bootlickers,” while also comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. Andrew Kaczynski (2024)