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Correct - common sense policies != common policies


Doesn't make them middle of the road, though.


Chomksy to Marr:

"...I'm sure you believe everything you're saying, but ... if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."

https://youtu.be/GjENnyQupow?t=597&feature=shared



Could be wrong, but think it was Gauss, not Goethe.


Citizens United....


Topic-related yt channel, cannot recommend this enough: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes


I think I recall Chomsky saying something along the lines that the financial press is the most reliable because it isn't in their economic interest to mislead their audience.


One of the most eye opening experiences I've had related to press was working in a hedge fund and being able to access paid political research reports.

No BS, no childish manipulation, just crude analysis of a bunch of people competing for power.


Do you remember what they were called?


I am interested in this as well. The regular media can be monotonous or driven by agendas. Would be great to find content created by folks paid to write unbiased, say it like it is.


Afaik that‘s what Stratfor does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor

They provide a free weekly newsletter as well.


Probably a Bloomberg terminal.


Bloomberg terminal bundles a lot of mid tier analysts, but all the market leading analyst firms sell their copy for FAR more than what Bloomberg will pay.

The analysis industry is fascinating, you're essentially paying gobsmacking amounts of money to a single journalist to follow 1 stock.


I think this is the relevant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsESsHZNoO4


It isn’t? Isn’t it in their interest to mislead their audience such that their audience puts their vast wealth towards causes the FT editors like?


Backscratcher - I never knew I couldn't go without one until I had one. I now have several dotted about the house.


Anyone point to sources describing how people come up with these large meta-structures in the first place?


May be wrong, but I think it correct to say glass is a 'fluid' (it flows - very slowly), gases and liquids are generally fluids. But glass is not a liquid.


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