This was a high signal discussion of many actors in Syria and their incentives. Would recommend. I'm now wondering if the US government views its military effort there as a counter-terror, monitoring, deterrence, humanitarian, or peacekeeping one and how it thinks we're doing. If we're on the up and up, surely we'd go out of our way to broadcast wins and build trust with the citizenry sending taxes and children to this war. It would also be nice to know where we think this lands on the spectrum of conflict and what winning looks like. Does silence say things are going poorly, however they may be defined? In Afghanistan, it always pissed me off to see Presidents, SECDEFs, and GOs utterly fail at PR (and strategy and focus and commitment and accountability and basic leadership skills etc). Secrecy makes it hard for plebeians and legionaries to embrace wars of empire, because no news isn't always good news.

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Good news: even with inflation, it will only take 6,932 years to double the money in my high-yield savings account. Isn't compound interest amazing?! #econstr

GM, looks like the dollar is dumping hard today. Might make sense to have some bitcoin in case it catches on.

Remember Keith McCullough? Hopefully he's loaded up on wine this cycle #asknostr

Who is paying for this and why? It seems pretty wasteful and bad for the environment. Of course the tradition began in 1970 - in line with other ills of fiat currency. #econstr

Where and when you can see the US Capitol Christmas tree in Iowa

Shout out to all the #bitcoin hodlers who thought they were too late

#Bitcoin hasn't retaken its all time high in more than several minutes. It's clearly too volatile to be a good store of value. Get out while you still can. It's finally dead this time.

Geology rocks!

GM even the BLS has to throw in the towel at some point - is the labor market starting to roll over? #econstr

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Employment Situation Summary - 2026 M01 Results

It's fun to watch #bitcoin exchange rates chase all time highs at the same time dollar maximalists are crapping their pants over who controls a money printer. It's almost like free market price signals could tell us something useful about Thiers' Law. #econstr

GM the St. Louis Fed curates data series on FRED for litecoin and bcash prices at Coinbase. NGMI #econstr

Something about this time of year makes me just want to become an alcoholic and start gambling away my life savings on high school football games in neighboring communities. #fallstr #autumnstr