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Brad DeLong.

Author of “Slouching Towards Utopia: The Economic History of the 20th Century” <bit.ly/3pP3Krk>

Author of “Grasping Reality Substack” <http://braddelong.substack.com>

Economic Historian.

Professor of the University of California at Berkeley.

Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury

Too oline since 1995

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Reässessing the “West” from John Winthrop to Marco Rubio:

From Plato to NATO to MAGA: Marco Rubio’s Myths & the Real "Western Alliance”
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/from-plato-to-nato-to-maga-marco>
2026-02-16 Mo
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Just What Do Trump's "Trade Deals" Consist of? Nothing
Malaysia deals with a chaos-monkey superpower: empty appeasement coupled with steps at derisking via exit from coupled arrangements that create vulnerabilities…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/just-what-do-trumps-trade-deals-consist>
2025-11-19 We
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What To Do with the Trump-Scrubbing Sanewashers?
Not weak tea, but no tea at all: attempts to scrub chaos into “strategy” in Trumpworld are really not helpful…
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/what-to-do-with-the-trump-scrubbing>
2025-11-03 Mio
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Why Cash Isn’t Truly King: Cash Transfers, Opportunity, & Real Engines of Transformation
To win the war on poverty, look beyond cash & toward the levers that truly unlock human potential...
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/why-cash-isnt-truly-king-cash-transfers>
2025-08-20 We
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I Badly Want a Map to the Likely Consequences of the AI-Infrastructure Construction Boom
& I do not have one. I do have scattered observations on how it might work out for the tech industry. How it is affecting the overall business cycle—that is another equally complicated topic that will have to wait for another day. What we do see is tech giants pouring ungodly massive sumds of hundreds of billions into data centers where profits are elusive, out of a fear that...
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/i-badly-want-a-map-to-the-likely