I was extremely fortunate to interview Nobel prize winner Angus Deaton for my class. Here’s my review of his new book, Economics in America. With luck, it will inspire a new generation of economists to break from the orthodoxy.

thesling.org/did-economists…

'In a widely circulated story in the late 1930s one blue collar worker is asked why he plans to vote for FDR. Simple, the worker responds: 'He understands that my boss is an SOB.'' - Robert Zieger, The CIO 1935-1955

For the record, Israel killed 63 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours.

In any other context, that’s a horrific & unspeakable massacre. But in the context of Israel’s genocide, that’s apparently “low intensity.”

'It doesn't really matter what they finalize the rule to say'

I'm heartbroken to say we lost my brother, Steven Attewell yesterday morning after a long struggle with cancer.

I'll put personal feelings and thoughts elsewhere, but given his and my community here, I want to talk about Steve's political and intellectual contributions.

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My review of Brett Christophers' the Price is Wrong was published in Heatmap News!

heatmap.news/economy/decarb…

Wrote about D.C.’s remarkable post-Covid transit recovery, and what other cities can learn from its experiment. (The short version is: Don’t fear deficits! Transit is a public service, and the better it is, the more people will use it.) vox.com/cities-and-urb…

Now: Big crowd of 'Christians for a Free Palestine' protest in the US Senate cafeteria—pushing Congress to back a ceasefire, restore aid to UNRWA, and end military aid to Israel.

'Congress & their staff will not eat today,' they chant. 'Until Gaza eats.'

Dozens being arrested.

Bluey's middle name is Christine so her full name is Bluey Christine Heeler. Are the writers making a reference to Christine Keeler of Profumo affair fame?

'Whether corporations have souls or not, they should be compelled, in the management of their business . . . to keep clearly within the bounds of the principles of sound morality.' - Rep. Dick Morgan, speaking in support of creating the Federal Trade Commission

Last night, we were proud to be part of the premiere of #FoodInc2 & the impact campaign to end corporate control over & destruction of our food system.

The film makes clear that putting too much of the food supply in too few hands makes us all vulnerable. 1/2

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.

til the Beef Trust ran a formal blacklist. If one of the packing houses fired you (i.e. for going on strike), none of the others would hire you. From a whistleblower affidavit in June 1902:

Jennifer Abruzzo, NLRB's general counsel, fires back at SpaceX, Trader Joe's and Amazon for challenging the labor board's constitutionality, calling them 'low-road employers' in Roosevelt Institute panel.

'Their primary goal in my mind is to divert our scarce resources.'

ICYMI: We gathered some first-rate .pdfs to add to your collection 📂 (gotta catch 'em all)

The next eclipse is gonna hit in the middle of the summer, in the middle of the afternoon, straight through the Sun Belt. Fun puzzle. If you’re an electrical engineer in college right now, you can look forward to managing this in your early 40s.

'It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.' - FDR

Today, our spring scouting report on some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

lpeproject.org/blog/the-best-…

'A child born in Kerala in India’s south has a better chance of surviving to age five than in the US. In Uttar Pradesh in the north, the odds are worse than in Afghanistan.'

bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…

regardless of what you think about whether phones are noxious or not, it is a bit insane we have delegated most of the design of this social experiment to the very firms who insist there's no problem ft.com/content/3da18c…