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I am generally in favor of the policies that Gabriel Zucman proposes.

This is a good draft year in the NBA, so many teams are “tanking”, or intentionally sitting players and otherwise manipulating their line-ups so as to lose and thereby (hopefully) get a good position in the draft lottery.

The following feels insufficient, yet I want to make it explicit that I oppose Trump and his policies including the following: I oppose and detest the imperialism exemplified by the attempt to acquire Greenland.

In a recent episode of “Money & Macro” (Youtube, Overcast) Joeri Schasfoort interviewed Dennis Egger about a massive basic income experiment that Give Directly did in Africa.

I enjoyed this interview from DW News with Philippe Aghion, winner of the 2025 Nobel in Economics.

The US (and the world?)

Ukraine is fighting a war of survival; how is the war being paid for?

I just finished reading “The Great Tax Wars” by Steven R.

I support Ukraine during the current war; though they are receiving significant foreign aid, revenue from income tax remains a big part of their national budget.

Taxsim is a tool from Daniel Feenberg for obtaining US federal and state income tax rates.