Steve Roth

For my new followers, here's a stake in the ground for my writings, explaining how I think about and understand economics and “the economy.” Took me two decades to get to this… It's 2,000 words, but it’s a bit of a smorgasbord, so you can take tastes and see if you'd like to read more.

Both Orban and Bolsonaro trounced just days apart is Very Good News.

This tendency among many (?) of todays' self-described Socialists to reject, demean, or denigrate Social Democracy, as "selling out," is really depressing to me.

Just came across this 👀 Hayek quotation (while interrogating the hell out of Hal). Grudging, just tacked on at the end of this chapter, and not pursued, but ‼️ archive.org/embed/in.ern...

i’m just a random person trying to reply with a helpful suggestion but what can you do.

Gift link: wapo.st/4z9L2Mg

In this polling panel, 6% of people who said (in 2024) that they'd voted for Trump now say the voted for someone else. Do with that what you will. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-22...

Also a classic: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

L'il help please? In tight Senate races, in how many do Dems have: • A 2%+ polling lead, and • 48%+ share? Henry doesn't tell us here. wapo.st/4shY2Ni

Wealth growth and wealth concentration are self-perpetuating. Income growth is not. Asset holders get more assets — unearned income — just for having assets. Year-in and year-out, across lifetimes, generations, and dynasties.

Humans cooperate on a scale greater than any other species, by far. It’s what got us to the top of the food chain. Every species competes. Competition is great. It's even necessary — but only to the extent that it causes cooperation.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Revisiting this polling result, especially top, #1 result. Is the Right getting wise to what's going on? Wd love to hear from polling experts/analysts on this one.

I asked Hal to characterize covid- and post-covid-era 1. profit and 2. margin increases for mass-market firms. It identified two phases.

Many orgs and movements I come across that seem like they're "in my ballpark" fail to even engage with the fundamental conflict at the heart of both classical and modern "liberalism": Between human rights and property rights.

I asked Hal about how it seems to get confused and offer up what I'll (for brevity) call nonsense. One of its answers also seems to describe humans very well: "the kind of confusion where I’ve misunderstood without realizing it is the kind I’m least able to report." Feel familiar?

I really enjoy reading guy. “Your average neuron has about ten thousand to fifty thousand dendritic spines and about the same number of axon terminals. Factor in a hundred billion neurons, and you see why brains, rather than kidneys, write good poetry.”

One tenth of a Truss.

"An armed society is a polite society." <tears> <anger>

Wow this is good news., government corruption is number one, voter fraud and border security dead last.

Somebody just threw Donald Trump into a washing machine.

This is def a great ad, but it’s only necessary because DSA slapped the Kick-Me-Now “socialists” sign on our backs, while Social Democrats was lying on the ground waiting to be picked up. Still is.

Russia is and has been providing missiles to Iran. (Bloomberg buried the lede here.) Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"A brand new CNN poll shows President Trump at an all time low in his approval rating... look at his net approval rating now with pure independents - it's negative 71 points! I mean, these are the deep depths of the ocean. You never see numbers like these. An 86 point shift away from the president!"

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New post at Wealth Economics:

Futile, flailing, frantic, and trivial.