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Shashank Nayak 🏗

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Software Engineer. Interested in Economic History, Finance and Programming.

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Economic growth and development becomes much more cooler and awe inspiring when you think of it less as "line goes up" and more as "increasing productive power of the species".


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I suspect this will consist of more than just firefighter training and firefighting equipment Since Syria said no on the humanitarian corridor, this seems like a creative way for Israel to do something that further entrenches its influence in Sweida


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COP literally caught on fire. Feels too on the nose.

AngelicaOung's tweet image. COP literally caught on fire. Feels too on the nose.

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Absolute all-timer of a name/quote pairing here: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

NickBaumann's tweet image. Absolute all-timer of a name/quote pairing here: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

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We are so very lucky that JNIM and IS do not get along.


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Andrew Walder's "China Under Mao" contains an excellent, succinct description of how the centrally planned command economy worked in both the Soviet system and Mao-era China. It's a far more penetrating description than that contained by Philip Hanson's "The Rise and Fall of…


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Europe is under assault from three fronts: beggar-thy-neighbour goods surplus from China; debilitating and coercive services- and energy dependency on US; a rudderless and self-liquidating leadership at home that undermines any response to the first two: the knee-jerk…


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We can no longer call it a vibecession. We are well into the Great Vibepression. x.com/USA_Polling/st…

Generic Ballot Polling Among White Voters: 🔵 Democrats: 50% 🔴 Republicans: 46% Marist / Nov 13, 2025



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Based on my count, the US has conducted at least 103 (give or take) strikes against both IS Somalia and Shabaab so far this year in #Somalia, by the far the most in any year since 2007. 61 strikes have targeted IS, 41 against Shabaab, and 1 against "arms smugglers."


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> I’ve met about 100 dudes from here Yeah that’s what they mean by dating app


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The flipside of this is the astoundingly quiet collapse of Novo Nordisk stock. Remember all those stories about the rally so big that it was distorting the Danish Krone? The company is down about two thirds since the peak last summer.

Birdyword's tweet image. The flipside of this is the astoundingly quiet collapse of Novo Nordisk stock. Remember all those stories about the rally so big that it was distorting the Danish Krone? The company is down about two thirds since the peak last summer.

🚨🚨🚨🚨$LLY $1 TRILLLION🚨🚨🚨🚨 The first healthcare company to reach this market-value threshold.



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Far be it from me to defend Larry Summers, but why would you say this—or clap for it—if *you* chose to take the class?

alexbronzini's tweet image. Far be it from me to defend Larry Summers, but why would you say this—or clap for it—if *you* chose to take the class?

NEW: In class today, Summers’ co-instructors tried to smooth over his sudden disappearance. Prof. Robert Lawrence told students they’d “miss his insights and his wisdom.” But some students didn't buy it. “No, we won’t,” one yelled back. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…



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May I meet you?

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"At the moment, normalization is not approaching. It’s moving away, but the Saudis will receive the F-35 fighter jets, civilian nuclear capabilities, valuable supplies of chips and more, without committing to a process that will lead to normalization." al-monitor.com/originals/2025…


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Part 2 of my Faustian Marxism essay about the rise of Stalin and exile of Trotsky, the ideology of DiaMat, the transformation of the party-state into a total state, Lukács’ accommodation to Stalinism, the mode of production in the Soviet Union nodrivers.substack.com/p/mephisto-lor…


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Don't want to go down this rabbit hole, but perhaps check the 2025 PPP GDP per capita as a start...

hsu_steve's tweet image. Don't want to go down this rabbit hole, but perhaps check the 2025 PPP GDP per capita as a start...

ppl have been observing this forever. @hsu_steve told me in 2008 over coffee in berkeley that ppl in places like taiwan are a bit mystified



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i've been making fun of realism so I’ll say one nice thing about it: for all the accusations of amorality, the realist position that human needs & fears are basically the same everywhere is more humanist and cosmopolitan than liberal assumptions of institutionally-shaped cultures


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Real liberal Groyperism has never been tried before.


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BREAKING: Trump administration considers approving sales of Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China


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NEET: Young people are getting increasingly disconnected from the labour market. Engage with current economics, politics, and culture in today's Chartbook Top Links linked in the comment below.

adam_tooze's tweet image. NEET: Young people are getting increasingly disconnected from the labour market. Engage with current economics, politics, and culture in today's Chartbook Top Links linked in the comment below.

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