Laurel

My views are a personal "special arrangement sanctioned by history"

Postwar Germany antitrust saga @econliberties

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

Servile men will insinuate "with a plausible affectation of wisdom and concern, How prudent it is to please the powerful—How dangerous to provoke them." 1768

[David Dayen @ddayen]

I think Dems are looking at these leadership fights all wrong.
The idea that you need to "win" House or Senate leader, otherwise you won't get your policies, presumes a Nancy Pelosi top-down approach to governing that infantilizes the rest of the caucus.
https://t.co/8ZBBHinhB7

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

There’s so much effort being made to frame this as a single bad actor versus a calculated and well documented smuggling operation where the general counsel of NVIDIA intimidated government officials

[Emma Freer @freer_emma]

Tell your 64-year-old friends / parents / self: Steer clear of Medicare Disadvantage! https://t.co/XKAV1wlYyq

[Emma Freer @freer_emma]

I will take any opportunity to call BS on Big Medicine.

[Brock Hrehor @brockhrehor]

Major U.S. airlines are facing class action price-fixing lawsuits following @Capitol_Forum reporting that the industry's information exchange could raise antitrust concerns.

The recap in this week's tech newsletter:

[kos_data @kos_data]

🇷🇸 Serbia’s election-winning Student List has declared "war on reality TV"

Student List plans to:
- Limit reality TV to 45 minutes a day, air it late at night and ban live broadcasts on national frequencies.

- Dedicate 30% of TV programming to children’s and educational content.

- And other regulaltion on media.

Like in other balkan countries reality TV dominates television viewership in Serbia.

[Samuel Levine @saalevine]

New York City is on the verge of banning surveillance pricing.

As a new Congress weighs how to tackle the affordability crisis, we’re showing what’s possible.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The scandal with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not about sex and spies, it's about corporate America selling out this country to the Chinese government. Elon Musk did it too.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Oren Cass’s views a few years ago were interesting, the problem is the new right he discussed has the same funding sources and intellectual foundations as the GOP establishment. It’s why they didn’t change the trajectory of very much. https://t.co/2H1gXTeEvG

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

It is interesting that Hasan Piker and Wall Street have the same view of trade. Offshore everything! Let America become a poor tributary of more efficient Chinese elites.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Key parts of the left really are not sold on the American nation-state and American workers as worth preserving and protecting.

If the left had more of a pro-America consensus this Jensen Huang scandal would be a huge political benefit. Alas.

[Brian Callaci @brian_callaci]

That's certainly...one way...to interpret the predictable outcome of abysmal corporate governance under founder-kings/pliant boards, recklessly absent succession planning.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Neera Tanden has blocked me, but let’s just note that this ‘bold anti-corruption’ agenda is actually endorsing corruption. ‘Prediction markets’ are just illegal gambling. Shut it all down, don’t regulate and thus legalize it.

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

@MajorityDems @mattcorridoni *except for the free press you keep kicking out

[Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser]

The censorship from @MajorityDems is insane--our reporter was set to cover the event for @TheProspect. He submitted multiple requests, finally got a pass, it was in his Google Wallet, he made plans to attend, and...

revoked.

Today.

The day before the conference!

[Politics Watch @politics_watch1]

POLITICO: Sens. Chris Van Hollen, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bennet and Tammy Duckworth vow to oppose any short-term funding deal that doesn't restrict Iran war funding

"When we vote on appropriations, we intend to fund the government and stop funds for this war."

Link: https://t.co/CxqkZerxoF

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

feel like voters used the election to say very loudly and clearly that now is not the time for Democrats’ now-is-not-the-time excuses

[Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser]

The censorship from @MajorityDems is insane--our reporter was set to cover the event for @TheProspect. He submitted multiple requests, finally got a pass, it was in his Google Wallet, he made plans to attend, and...

revoked.

Today.

The day before the conference!

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

*NVIDIA SHARES EXTEND DECLINE TO 10% AFTER HUANG RESIGNS AS CEO

[Dave A Ricks @DaveARicks]

Brad I do! Biotech + AI will be powerful to speed candidates forward, increase enrollment speed in RCTs and, maybe the boring but vital part, fix the last mile problems in healthcare. That last part seems most tractable, consumers detest waiting in offices, want to have reliable access to digital advice and diagnostics and health care financing is a consumer crisis. These problems most closely resemble the breakthroughs and productivity gains tech has brought in customer service and fintech - and need more hype not less IMO.

[Dave A Ricks @DaveARicks]

I think that would be amazing and I think it’s not likely. The map of biology is still largely a blank page and randomized human proof is the long pole in the tent. I am excited about the use of AI in our sector but progress will likely be steady and incremental.