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braddelong.substack.com/p/briefly-note… ...1/
...James Mayer de Rothschild: ‘There are three principal ways to lose money: drinking wine, wooing women, and employing engineers. While the first two are far more pleasant, the third is superior as by far more certain… LINK: <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May…>... 2/
...One Video: Engadget: EUV: Lasers, Plasma, & the Sci-Fi Tech that Will Make Chips Faster <>... 3/
...Steve M.: Does J.D. Vance Want a Literal Shooting War Against Progressives & “Woke Capital”?<nomoremister.blogspot.com/2021/06/does-j…>

EBMUD: De Laveaga Trail to Siesta Valley <lamorindahikes.com/2021/02/12/de-…>

Michael Kalecki (1943): Political Aspects of Full Employment <delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf> 4/
...Andre Damon: Author of Wall Street Journal “Wuhan lab” Story Wrote Lies About Iraqi “Weapons of Mass Destruction”: ’The lead author of the Journal piece, Michael R. Gordon, was the same man who, along with Judith Miller, wrote the September 8, 2002 article falsely...
... asserting that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was seeking to build a nuclear weapon… <wsws.org/en/articles/20…>

Paul Krugman: Yellen’s New Alliance Against Leprechauns: ‘Apple… until 2014… a large share of its global profits was assigned to Apple Sales International... 6/
..., which was registered in Ireland but for tax purposes was located nowhere at all… <nytimes.com/2021/06/07/opi…>

Diane Lim: ’Demand outpacing (labor) supply: Interest over time on Google Trends for restaurants near me, jobs near me… <> 7/END

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