Gordon's Notes

I haven’t written recently about why Crisis 2016, sometimes called Crisis-T , happened. For that matter, why Brexit. My last takes were in 2...

I believe this is true — though I’d be more confident if one of my favorite economists thought this was plausible (emphases mine): If The ...

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

For reference - DeLong’s  Peak Human  and my  Mass Disability are synonyms. Both refer to a surplus of productive capacity relative to labo...

How, a friend asked, did I come up with the 40% number for “mass disability” that I quoted in  After Trump: reflections on mass disability i...

Fourteen  months ago I wrote that Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy . That one might rank up with my Peak Oil prediction . I’m really...

Set aside the neo-Klan-Nazi minority. Set aside the truly despicable  - Coulter, Hannity, Falwell and the like. Forget the hell-spawn who th...

We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an old drug. It’s a descendant of chloroquine , which is as old as dirt: Chloroquine was discovered in 1934 by...

Over the past few decades developed world growth in wealth and income has been captured by a small segment of the population. Globalization...

Stagflation was a catchy way to describe the economics of the Vietnam war West: Stagflation, a portmanteau of stagnation and inflation, i...

A good feature of teenagers is that they sometimes sleep in. So Emily and I can chat on a quiet Saturday morning about wearable tech  ( reme...

Cash-only real estate speculation in LA, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and so on (emphases mine) ... Cash Is Fueling Quick Home Sales - NYT...

Stocks are overpriced again . It's probably not too much of a bubble (yet), but we continue to be significantly above "trend"...

After 1973, and especially after the early 1980s, productivity gains went towards the 1%. Media male compensation in particular went flatlin...

A copyright troll claims ownership in China of a brand Apple thought it had bought from the original company ... in Taiwan. Chinese IP law ...

Reading 9th grade world history  as an adult I read over the names of the wicked and the great. I round years to centuries, and nations to r...

I've been chattering for a few years about the rise of  mass disability and the role of RCIIT (India, China, computers, networks) in t...

Netflix is getting out of the messy, labor intensive, business of mailing physical DVDs. Now they are purely digital. They won't need po...

My paper magazine has another article on the Argentinification of America -  Can the Middle Class Be Saved? - The Atlantic . I'll skim ...