2:00PM Water Cooler 10/25/2022 | bare capitalism

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Rooster Tune of the Day

Golden Vireo, Cañon del Sabino, Teotitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Politics

“Nonetheless what’s authorities itself, nonetheless crucial of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51

“Correct proper right here’s meals for thought, had Ahab time to think about; nonetheless Ahab on no account thinks; he solely feels, feels, feels” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“The logic of the insult and the logic of scientific classification characterize the 2 excessive poles of what a classification can also be contained in the social world.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles

Biden Administration

“Federal appeals courtroom docket quickly halts Biden’s pupil debt assist program” [Politico]. • Oops. I assume the Division of Schooling obtained’t be succesful to develop its mailing itemizing for collections in any case.

2022

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“Ron DeSantis is Donald Trump with brains and with out the drama” [Financial Times (NL)]. “DeSantis, 44, boasts Yale and Harvard ranges and what some describe as a photographic reminiscence. The restoration effort seemed to be in safe fingers as he rattled off statistics and organisational plans with a vigour and fluency that President Biden’s handlers can solely dream of.” I didn’t know DeSantis was, like George W. Bush, a Yalie. Was DeSantis, too, a towel-snapping frat boy? Apparently so: “At Yale, he furthermore discovered refuge on the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, an athlete-heavy membership that featured barrels of beer and distinguished former members, together with the Bushes and Supreme Courtroom justice Brett Kavanaugh. In his latest pandemic memoir, What Merely Occurred: Notes on a Extended Yr, the creator and critic Charles Finch recalled two factors about his former classmate, acknowledged then as ‘D’: he did an uncanny impression of baseball star Jose Canseco and, in response to a buddy, would inform dates he most popular Thai meals, nonetheless pronounced it “thigh”. Inside the event that they corrected him, Finch wrote, he would uncover an excuse to go away. ‘He didn’t desire a girlfriend who corrected him.’” • In any case, W’s persona labored out very correctly for him. Possibly DeSantis’s will as correctly. Then as quickly as additional. Trump is sui generis:

“With out an Financial Message, Democrats Will By no means Shut the Deal” [Jeet Heer, The Nation]. “Very similar to the Labour Get collectively, the Democrats have surrendered on the sector of financial debate.” • I don’t assume that’s true. The Democrats don’t really actually really feel they should make an financial argument on account of their PMC base is doing unimaginable, merely unimaginable. In any case, it’s far too late for some kinda pivot to “the financial system” contained in the midterms; two weeks of messaging obtained’t do the trick. Biden had the prospect to take the railroads by the scruff of the neck on behalf of the unions, nonetheless he punted ’til after the midterms as correctly (sorry for blended metaphors). Related with Starbucks, Amazon, the entire thing. Tactically, in any case, Heer is improper. “Dance with the one which brung ya,” which the working class shouldn’t be. Amp up the prevailing messaging. Extra hysteria on Ukraine, please, together with election stealing, racism, abortion, “our democracy,” Orange Man unhealthy, and so forth.

“GOP wave threatens blue-state strongholds” [The Hill]. “Democrats are more and more extra nervous that Republicans will make constructive factors in deep-blue strongholds very like New York and Oregon because of the winds seem to shift contained in the GOP’s favor forward of subsequent month’s midterm elections. The GOP is making aggressive bids to take as soon as extra governorships in each states, which reliably go for Democrats in presidential elections. The Republican constructive factors can also lengthen to the Residence, the place the GOP is making inroads contained in the aforementioned states, together with Rhode Island and others. elsewhere too there are Residence districts of assorted shades of blue the place this pattern is rising. Take, for instance, Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District: The seat has extended been thought-about a safely Democratic one, having been represented by outgoing Rep. Jim Langevin (D) for twenty years. Nonetheless latest polling has confirmed Republican Allan Fung major Democrat Seth Magaziner, together with a Suffolk College-Boston Globe ballot launched closing week that had Fung at 45 p.c in contrast with Magaziner at 37 p.c. And the race has been rated a “toss up” by the nonpartisan election handicapper Put together dinner dinner Political Report. In Oregon’s sixth Congressional District, which has equally been seen as favoring Democrats and which went for Biden by double digits in 2020, the race has furthermore been rated a “toss up” by Put together dinner dinner. Although the district shouldn’t be fairly as blue as completely completely different Residence seats, the aggressive setting has required Democrats to maneuver spherical their belongings.”

“Inside the ultimate days before the midterms, Democrats are deploying their get collectively’s largest property in Pennsylvania” [FiveThirtyEight]. “[T]correct proper right here have been means fewer polls in 2022 than in earlier cycles. In 2010, pollsters carried out nearly 1,700 polls of particular specific individual races for Senate, Residence and governor between early May and late October. By comparability, we have now barely higher than half that quantity this time spherical — about 900. Nonetheless this dropoff isn’t sudden; it’s been an extra gradual decline over the sooner decade and a half. Curiously, because of the variety of surveys of races on the state or district stage has fallen, the variety of nationwide polls that ask concerning the generic poll — which asks respondents which get collectively they plan to help of their native U.S. Residence election — has higher than doubled in 2022. This may presumably be all one of the simplest ways down to some elements: For one challenge, politics immediately are additional nationalized than so far, so pollsters can also be incentivized to conduct nationwide surveys, which is able to get additional clicks and views. And it’s furthermore doubtlessly additional economical — and safer — to ballot a nationwide viewers on fully completely various factors and the generic poll — which, for example, can produce numerous tales for a media group — than to ballot particular specific individual races on the state stage. The sooner entails weighting polls by particulars regarding the nationwide inhabitants, whereas state-level polls could require extra sturdy picks to appropriately interpret outcomes, as we’ve persistently seen bigger errors in sure states than on the nationwide stage.” • One completely different classification battle:


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NY: “NY-17 Ranking Change: DCCC Chair Maloney Strikes From Lean Democrat to Toss Up” [Cook Political Report]. “When Republicans’ extreme Tremendous PAC launched an advert purchase in opposition to Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-17) in April, many assumed it was a gambit to troll or distract the DCCC chair. Nonetheless two weeks out from Election Day, Maloney finds himself in deep hazard, concurrently combating for his political life in his Hudson Valley seat and desperately trying to stop Democrats from being swept out of the Residence majority. Each events’ inside polls present Maloney locked in an outstanding race in opposition to GOP Assemblyman Mike Lawler contained in the seventeenth CD, which is roughly three-quarters new to Maloney following redistricting. The CLF and NRCC have outspent Democratic teams $3.5 million to $384,000 so far, and the native local weather for Democrats contained in the state has deteriorated in the previous few weeks as GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin has surged contained in the governor’s race. Republicans have lampooned Maloney over revelations he hosted posh DCCC fundraisers in Paris and Geneva earlier this month, and for hiring his husband’s private coach as a part-time driver on his congressional payroll.” • $3.5 million v. $384,000? That’s so much.

NY: “Democratic promoting and advertising and marketing advertising and marketing marketing campaign chief Maloney inclined to dropping Residence seat” [Yahoo News]. “The irony is that Maloney really switched districts earlier this yr to run in a neater seat for a Democratic candidate to win. It’s uncommon to see members of a celebration’s nationwide administration lose their seats, and as quickly as they do, it’s normally a part of a dramatic wave election.” • The DCCC’s head defeated? What a disgrace that shall be.

PA: “Trump Plans to Disadvantage the 2022 Elections — Beginning in Philly” [Rolling Stone]. “Trump has been briefed on plans in numerous states and demanding races — together with in Georgia. Nonetheless Pennsylvania has grabbed his curiosity most keenly, together with contained in the Senate contest between Democrat John Fetterman and the Trump-endorsed GOP contender Mehmet Oz. If the Republican wouldn’t win by a giant sufficient margin to set off a speedy concession from Fetterman — or if the vote tally is shut on or after Election Evening time time in November — Trump and completely completely different Republicans are already on the purpose of wage a licensed and activist advertising and marketing marketing campaign in opposition to the “election integrity” of Democratic strongholds such because of the Philly space. Trump’s deal with Pennsylvania, nonetheless, appears to be additional about his non-public political future than about get collectively allegiance or fealty to his celeb endorsee. As he hosts conferences on attainable 2022 election challenges, he’s furthermore been laying the groundwork for a run in 2024 — the place Pennsylvania as quickly as additional ensures to be very important and aggressive. As one present who has spoken to Trump numerous occasions a couple of potential post-election-day licensed battle over the OzFetterman race places it, Trump views a possible midterm draw back as a ‘gown rehearsal for Trump 2024.’ Trump obtained Pennsylvania in 2016 after which misplaced it to Biden in 2020 by higher than 80,000, and if the 2 candidates rematch in 2024, it would correctly be the state that picks the next president.” • Fascinating…

PA: “I Don’t Care If It Prices Me the Subsequent Election. I’m Going to Do What’s Appropriate.” [Mother Jones]. “Promoting advertising and marketing marketing campaign finance knowledge present Fetterman’s everyman persona is resonating. Increased than half of the $48 million Fetterman has raised comes from small contributions of $200 or so much a lot much less. In distinction, merely 10 p.c of Oz $35 million haul has come from small donors. ‘The phrase ‘vibes’ has remodel so overused,’ says Adam Jentleson, a former senior aide to Senator Harry Reid, and the creator of Kill Swap: The Rise of the Trendy Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. ‘Nonetheless I actually really feel there’s one issue to it. Folks merely notion him additional on a intestine stage.’” • I actually really feel races not normally come all one of the simplest ways proper right down to debates. I actually really feel this one does. If puppy-killing charlatan Ozmanages to make Fetterman appear to be a gimp on TV, that’s not gonna be good. Nonetheless when Fetterman makes it by the use of the talk about, I actually really feel he should squeak by the use of, irrespective of Ouncesnewest gusher of money. Visiting each county actually should rely for one issue (and for people who’re on the left, you should be praying it does).

PA: “Taylor Swift Has a Fan in John Fetterman” [Teen Vogue]. “On Friday (October 21), Fetterman’s group took to TikTok with a superbly soundtracked jab at his senate opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz. For the video, Fetterman used one amongst Taylor’s latest singles, ‘Anti-Hero,’ which has rapidly gone viral for its made-to-meme lyric: ‘It’s me/Hiya/I’m the issue, it’s me.’ On account of the lyrics play out, two blocks of textual content material materials seem on the present show display, the primary of which be taught: ‘The issue is individuals who run for workplace solely caring about $ + vitality and certainly not really caring about individuals.’ A second block of textual content material materials seems with the phrases, ‘I’m the issue it’s me.’ The video of Ozhas him pointing at each captions, as if acknowledging his standing because of the referenced draw again.”

PA: “Scoop: Democrats deploy Biden and Obama to lock down Pennsylvania” [Axios]. “President Biden and former President Obama will barnstorm the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas on Nov. 5 with the get collectively’s nominees for Pennsylvania governor and Senate, in response to a Democrat with direct data of the plans. Inside the ultimate days before the midterms, Democrats are deploying their get collectively’s largest property in Pennsylvania.” • This isn’t going to “lock down” Pennsylvania. At largest it’s going to lock down Philly, presumably the burbs.

Democrats en Déshabillé

Affected specific individual readers, plainly individuals are really discovering out the back-dated put up! Nonetheless I’ve not up to date it, and there are various updates. So I ought to try this. –lambert

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get collectively (“the Democrat Get collectively is a rotting corpse which can’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated put up, to which I’ll periodically add provides, summarizing the addition correct proper right here in a “dwell” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) Plainly defining the Democrat Get collectively is, the truth is, a hard draw again. I do assume the paragraph that follows is on diploma all one of the simplest ways by which as soon as extra to 2016, if not before:

The Democrat Get collectively is the political expression of the category vitality of PMC, their base (lucidly outlined by Thomas Frank in Hear, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get collectively didn’t exist, the PMC ought to invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” really.) Second, all of the working elements of the Get collectively reinforce one another. Depart apart characterizing the relationships between elements of the Get collectively (ka-ching, nonetheless not fully) these elements comprise a bunch — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property contained in the press and the intelligence neighborhood.

Observe, really, that the category vitality of the PMC each expresses and is restricted by completely completely different packages; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to concepts. Suck up, kick down.

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“‘People are livid’: Democratic backlash grows over progressive title to pursue diplomacy in Ukraine” [CNN]. “Residence Democrats are offended at Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state for sending out a letter calling for the Biden administration to pursue diplomacy in Ukraine, with many publicly and privately fuming that the progressive chief blindsided them and revealed new divisions inside their get collectively over the battle and with merely days to go before the November midterms. ‘People are livid – considerably front-liners,’ talked about one senior Residence Democrat, referring to mainly primarily essentially the most weak members inclined to dropping their seats contained in the November 8 midterms.” So0-called frontliners being, mainly, mainly primarily essentially the most reactionary Democrats. Extra: “‘Timing in diplomacy is the entire thing,’ talked about California Rep. Sara Jacobs, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus that Jayapal leads. ‘I signed this letter on June 30, nonetheless so much has modified since then. I wouldn’t signal it immediately.’…. A Jayapal aide declined to clarify why the letter went out Monday. And a few members talked about they didn’t obtain a follow-up on it before it was despatched to Biden. ‘They didn’t check out as soon as extra with the signers before releasing it. I’d have taken my title off,’ talked about one member who signed the letter, who spoke with CNN beneath the state of affairs of anonymity to talk freely. ‘Timing is horrible.’” Inside the meantime, the White Residence continues to insist that Zelensky is an impartial actor: “‘Mr. Zelensky will get to hunt out out when he thinks that’s the easiest time, and Mr. Zelensky will get to hunt out out, on account of it’s his nation [tell that to the Azovs], what success appears as if, what victory seems and and what kind of phrases he able to barter on,’ [John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator at the National Security Council] talked about. ‘We’re not going to dictate that.’” • A sternly worded letter is quickly forgotten. Nonetheless the timing appears odd to me, too. What’s the intention, whether or not or not or not tactical or strategic. In any case, if the Progressive Caucus had articulated a principled safety in Ukraine as soon as extra in February or March, and saved hammering at it, there’s be no want to assemble signatures, in June and July, for a letter that went out in October. What had been they ready for? For The Blob to return to its senses, if any?

“Residence Progressives Float Diplomatic Path Within the path of Ending Battle In Ukraine, Get Annihilated, Shortly ‘Make clear’” [The Intercept]. “On Monday Morning, 30 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus despatched a letter to the White Residence that tried to gingerly open a dialog a couple of potential diplomatic finish to Russia’s battle on Ukraine. The door was slammed shut by the night, met with sufficient fury to elicit a ‘clarification’ contained in the form of an announcement from caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal. ‘Let me be clear,’ Jayapal talked about in an announcement issued merely before 7 p.m., ‘We’re united as Democrats in our unequivocal dedication to supporting Ukraine of their battle for his or her democracy and freedom contained in the face of the unlawful and outrageous Russian invasion, and nothing contained in the letter advocates for a change in that help.’…. That the letter was met with fierce opposition is a measure of the realm accessible for debate amongst congressional Democrats in relation to help for the battle and one of the simplest ways it is extra prone to be stopped before it turns nuclear: roughly zero.” • Oh, good. I’d wish to herd all of them into the CDC creating before nailing the doorways shut. It’s actually an excessive amount of.

“How Democrats Botched Trump’s Impeachment” (interview) [The Intercept]. Ryan Grim: “A mannequin new e e guide out this week “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump” is chock-full of latest particulars about each of the failed makes an attempt to question Trump, together with what I take into account to be among the many crucial: On the day of January 6, there was a concerted effort by rank-and-file Democrats to question Trump that very night time, and Democratic leaders from Nancy Pelosi on down rebuffed their effort in a way which may have modified the course of historic earlier.” • Impeaching Bush in 2006 over warrantless surveillance plus Iraq would have modified historic earlier too, and Pelosi didn’t do that every. Fairly a couple of good part on this textual content.

Realignment and Legitimacy

“Hillary Clinton questions the integrity of 2024 election by already claiming ‘right-wing extremists have a plan to STEAL it’ – nonetheless presents ZERO proof in fundraising video (and after she talked about questioning Biden’s win was ‘doing Putin’s work)” [Daily Mail]. “The 2-minute clip urged People to look earlier the 2022 midterms and end as a lot as vote of their native election, on account of she claims the conservative majority U.S. Supreme Courtroom may give state legislatures the ability to overturn outcomes…. The video was put out on Twitter by the progressive group Indivisible Information [I wondered what happened to Indivisible], which is working an initiative geared in the direction of selling progressive candidates in native state races on an internet web site typically referred to as Crush the Coup… Crush the Coup’s web site on-line homepage reads in large capital lettering: ‘MAGA has a plan to steal the election in 2024. We’ve bought to cease them, immediately.’ It additional claims that Democrats ought to deal with worthwhile 29 native seats in six swing states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin…. Any Republicans who nonetheless query the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election have been dubbed ‘election deniers’, regardless that Democrats have requested questions – and proceed to query – the outcomes of some earlier elections. Now, Clinton is questioning outcomes a full two years before an election was even held, irrespective of her claims that Republicans pushing election fraud claims are serving to push the Kremlin’s agenda.” • The Mail is suitable about that, not decrease than. I don’t very like “impartial state legislature thought” every. I merely want the Democrats would uncover somebody with standing to talk in opposition to it, and I want it weren’t being handled as merely one completely different “our democracy” speaking diploma.

“Biden admin set to warn about threats to nation’s election infrastructure” [Politico]. “The inner administration considerations about election threats come days after a popularity was held between federal officers and native legal guidelines enforcement personnel concerning the midterms, in response to one among many people acquainted with the matter. These on the selection talked in regards to the potential for violence in response to the unfold of false narratives concerning the election course of. Officers talked about election employees, together with these working at polling stations, normally are inclined to face threats and harassment from extrements each on-line and offline, the individual acquainted with the matter talked about. ‘We are actually listening to tales of individuals surrounding poll drop bins, some even carrying tactical gear, and questioning individuals,’ talked about John Cohen, the sooner counterterrorism chief at DHS. ‘Are the police ready for that? They should be. All of that is being pushed by the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen.’” • Observe that the Democrats have accomplished nothing, zero, zilch, nada on this. (Tactically, all of the “comfort” crapola like drop bins and mail-in ballots does is enhance the assault floor. Begin with making Election Day a nationwide journey, after which return to the idea of voting places by precinct, hopefully run by “little outdated women” (sorry, really current small elderettes), and with hand-marked paper ballots, counted (hopefully by hand) in public. (Sure, I do know that mail-in ballots work in Oregon. I merely don’t assume that’s going to scale out nationally, for apparent, if unjust, causes.)

#COVID19

• Maskstravaganza:

• Maskstravaganza:

Biden Administration polices, IIRC, destroyed all of the small corporations in favor of Chinese language language language producers and large monopolies like 3M on account of hospital adminstrators wished masks the underside attainable value. Resulting from this truth, the shortage of innovation. Nearly three years into what is certainly not the last word pandemic of respiratory pathogens, and we’re carrying medical objects on our faces, as a substitute of favor objects (since that’s the kind of innovation small corporations not promoting to hospitals would create).

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• Talking of favor objects:

Nonetheless ready for Physician Biden to go on Good Morning America and bulid a Corsi-Rosenthal space, together with some lovable schoolchildren.

• ”Assemble an Indoor Air High quality Monitor with WisBlock” [RAK Documentation Center]. “The WisBlock ecosystem now presents numerous sensors required to assemble an indoor air high quality sensor that covers an very important values.” • An Arduino enterprise. I want there have been miniaturized sensors for cellphones, nonetheless maybe not nevertheless.

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• An outstanding query:

ACT-UP was, AFAIK, a really daring, disciplined, and succcessful enterprise. Probably that’s why amnesia has set in about its strategies and achievements.

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• “The nice Texas COVID tragedy” [PLOS One]. “America of America leads all high-income nations in COVID-19 deaths, regardless that as a nation at had the easiest entry to antiviral vaccines and therapeutics. To know this disconnect we’re able to look to the COVID-19 deaths and incapacity contained in the State of Texas. Ensuing from COVID-19, Texas is enduring one among many biggest human tragedies in its 186-year historic earlier. It didn’t need to be this type…. The disproportionate deaths in Texas amongst Hispanic and African American teams in 2020 (and presumably thereafter) adopted by conservatives who refused a COVID-19 immunization in 2021–22 will depart a haunting legacy for Texas…. In Texas, many if not most of people that died from COVID-19 contained in the closing half of 2021 and into 2022 may have been saved by the use of immunization. As an alternative, they turned victims of antivaccine activism and aggression that now predominates—for years Texas has been floor zero for the antivaccine properly being freedom motion in America. One completely different grim actuality: It’s uncertain that antivaccine activism will dissipate with the tip of the COVID-19 pandemic. As an alternative, many indicators diploma to its spillover to all childhood vaccines resulting in crucial protests and future legislative motion in opposition to Texas faculty immunization mandates.”

• And nevertheless there may be hope:

(“Expertise is a hard faculty, nonetheless a idiot shall be taught in no completely completely different.” To qualify, I’m not making the argument that vax is sweet in all instances; it isn’t. I’m arguing that minds can change, which is sweet to know.)

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• And for the RCT fetishists:


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The CDC is down, as of this writing:

How am I alleged to be doing my private hazard evaluation with no data?

Positivity

From the Walgreen’s study positivity tracker, October 18:

0.4%. Slowed enhance.

Readers, please click on on on by the use of on this, if in case you would have a minute. Since Walgreens did the easiest challenge, let’s give this enterprise some stats.

Variants

Lambert correct proper right here: It’s earlier irritating how sluggish the variant data is. Does no one inside the general public properly being institution get a promotion for monitoring variants? Are there no grants? Is there a single lab that does this work, and all people will get the outcomes from them? Extra sources from readers welcome [grinds teeth, bangs head on desk].

NEW Variant data, nationwide (Walgreens), October 7:

Lambert correct proper right here: BQ.1*, out of nowhere. So superior.

Deaths

Lack of life price (Our World in Knowledge):

Full: 1,093,153 – 1,092,409 = 744 (744 * 365 = 271,560, which is immediately’s LivingWith™ quantity (fairly a bit elevated than the minimizers would love, although they’ll discuss themselves into one factor. If the LivingWith™ metric retains chugging alongside like this, I am going to need to resolve that is what the powers-that-be take into account “mission achieved” for this specific tranche of dying and illness.

It’s good that for deaths I’ve a easy, every single day chart that merely retains chugging alongside, not like the entire thing else CDC and the White Residence are screwing up or letting go darkish, good job.

Stats Watch

Manufacturing: “United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Manufacturing Practice Index contained in the US fifth district fell to -10 in October of 2022 from 0 in in September, the underside since May of 2022, as two of its three part indexes deteriorated notably. The indexes for shipments and quantity of latest orders fell from 14 and -11 in September to -3 and -22 in October, respectively. The third part, the employment index, remained unchanged at 0 in October, as hiring challenges continued.”

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Capital: “Ventures & Networks” (interview) [Sebastian Mallaby, Phenomenal World]. Mallaby: “A variety of actors which have barely fully completely completely different goal capabilities or analytical processes is finally a healthful challenge. You get assorted types of retailers with fully completely completely different ranges of hazard urge for meals, and fully completely completely different specialties by way of which a part of the financial system they perceive. That choice is additional additional extra prone to yield sound capital allocation than a monolithic system by which all of the capital is allotted every by the federal authorities or by banks or by one different specific participant.” • Now clarify Silicon Valley’s flip in path of revolutionary rent-seeking.

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Correct now’s Concern & Greed Index: 52 Impartial (earlier shut: 48 Impartial) [CNN]. One week beforehand: 34 (Concern). (0 is Excessive Concern; 100 is Excessive Greed). Closing up to date Oct 25 at 1:37 PM EDT. October, and no crash nevertheless. It’s like ready for the Ukrainian Kherson counter-offensive. As all the time for bears, the issue is timing….

Rapture Index: Closes down one on Floods. “The dearth of practice has downgraded this class” [Rapture Ready]. Doc Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 187. (Evidently bringing on the Rapture is good.)

Picture Guide

Probably the work are additional “applicable” than the pictures?

The Gallery

“The Warhol Basis’s Basquiat and Mine” [Ishmael Reed, Counterpunch]. “My play, “The Slave Who Cherished Caviar,” challenged the notion promoted by the Manhattan work enterprise that painter Jean Michel Basquiat was Andy Warhol’s ‘mascot.’ Or it was because of Warhol’s beneficence that Basquiat, born of Haitian and Puerto Rican dad and mom, turned well-known…. My play depicts Warhol as a wicked and decadent chief of a dying/suicide cult. He didn’t care whether or not or not or not the youthful individuals he exploited lived or died, nevertheless in McCarten’s play, Warhol says to Basquiat: ‘Is that why your work are crammed with slightly so much dying?’ Warhol merchandised dying. Automotive crashes. Executions. Andy Warhol appropriated an image of Evelyn McHale’s suicide for his ‘Suicide: Fallen Physique’ (1962). His response to the suicide of his actress Edie Sedgewick and dancer Freddie Herko was that he wished he’d been there to movie their suicides. When he obtained an pressing plea from a kind of who actually cared for Basquiat, Paige Powell, that Basquiat’s cocaine dependancy had remodel life-threatening, Warhol quipped: ‘Possibly he needs to be the primary to exit early.’ Nonetheless, in [a competing play] ‘The Collaboration,’ Warhol is portrayed as a naive, clear, church-going particular one which cares about Basquiat’s welfare…. Warhol discovered Basquiat disgusting. He typically referred to as him ‘soiled’ and regarded him as a nuisance. This and completely completely different hostile views of Basquiat held by Warhol are revealed in Warhol On Basquiat, edited by Michael Dayton Hermann. Warhol’s screenwriter Ronald Tavel thought Warhol lacked compassion. He talked about, ‘Often I admit that his coldness was attractive.’” • Not a lovely specific individual in the least, Warhol. Correct proper right here’s a Basquiat, immediately recognizable regardless of the shortage of pictures except for, correctly er, a ship:

No mascot correct proper right here. As a palate cleanser to the controversy, one completely different Manufacturing facility than Warhol’s:

Class Warfare

Deindustrialization:

Gadgets supplied at property product gross sales may very well be an notably fascinating metric to have, though over a couple of years.

Information of the Wired

An excellent grape arbor, too!

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